ARTIST Ian Hay has won the 2024 Rick Amor Drawing Award. The awards are presented annually by the McClelland Gallery in Langwarrin. The winning piece will now be submitted into its collection. More than 150 people applied for the award. Ian Hay was announced the winner last week.
Award judge Nick Mourtzakis said Hay’s drawing, titled …and somewhere else tomorrow “compresses and measures its forms in quanta of square millimetres with a beautiful precision. The work is fraught with speculative and possible resolutions and seems to develop in an entirely improvised way toward an inevitable conclusion.”
“While representing diverse and varied approaches, the singular qualities that mark the drawings in the exhibition are the motivation and humane conviction to evoke significant meanings and confirm the life of the emotions,” Mourtzakis said. “Drawing has its beginnings in prehistory and is in effect a powerful and natural antidote to the more delusional aspects of contemporary technology and culture.”
The award is named after Frankston-born artist Rick Amor. $20,000 in prize money was on offer. The winning work and other finalists will be on display at McCelland Gallery until 21 July.
