Mosman Art Prize: Finalist

Olivia Chin

10 Aug - 6 Oct 2024

⁠“Olivia is often considering the body in space, immersing herself in environments and transcribing those experiences. Her artworks gesture towards the role of the personal (the complexity of the everyday, illness, dreaming, disability, pain, strength, generative creativity, the active body), context and place (culture, belonging to a biosphere, urban and natural environments, memory), and the role of art making (archiving, documenting, embedding narratives). ⁠
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Olivia’s works feel like diary entries from experiences in the Australian landscape, and the impossibility of dividing Nature from Culture. These explorations archive a deep sense of interconnectedness with our landscape, and how interiors and exteriors are reflected in each other. Olivia is also deeply interested in the mundane, and how it is produced by a mix of the archaic underworld and the refined scientific process.” ⁠

The Mosman Art Prize is the longest running and most prestigious municipal art prize in Australia. Winning entries form the basis of the Mosman Art Collection, a valuable and historic collection that surveys Australian painting since 1947. The Mosman Art Prize is an acquisitive award of $70,000 sponsored by Mosman Council. Previous winners form a roll call of Australian art luminaries; Grace Cossington Smith, Nancy Borlase, Lloyd Rees, Guy Warren, Margo Lewers, Jenny Sages, Noel McKenna, Cressida Campbell, Jumaadi, Elisabeth Cummings, Adam Cullen, Jasper Knight, Guan Wei, Natasha Walsh and Michael Zavros.

Curator and writer Julie Ewington is the judge of the 2024 Mosman Art Prize.

Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman NSW