clayton utz award winner 2024
Way of Being Triptych by Marisa Veerman
Judges Commentary
By Dr Andrea Bubenik
Associate Professor in Art History and 2024 Guest Judge
Marisa Veerman's triptych is the most abstract work in the competition, and also the most diverse in terms of media. She uses photography and textile, fine embroidery and beading. What I admire most about this work is that it is open ended and rife with possibilities. Here, I find myself considering a variety of ideas for how to describe: old photographs that are just out of focus, ghostly apparitions who are somehow familiar yet strange, an ephemeral and liminal space that is otherworldly.
There is an assured dynamism through the lovely fresh floral pastel palette, at the same time we squint and wonder again and again, who is here with us? How long will they stay? A haunting is not always about doom and gloom - the cheerful pastel palette ensures this - and memories of other lives need not always be heavy and laden with regret.
For me, this triptych allows the viewer to go on a journey of their own. Rather than being locked into a preconceived meaning, we experience a kind of flight of thought and ideas. This is original, thoughtful, playful art making. You can go back again and again for a fresh experience. For all these reasons and more, I have chosen Marisa Veerman as the winner of the Clayton-Utz art prize in 2024."
Scott Sharry , Dr Andrea Bubenick, Marisa Veerman, Brett Lethbridge
CV
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2024 Winner, Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane Australia
2024 Winner, Inverell Art Award Acquisition Award, Inverell
2024 Finalist, Rotary Art Award, Riparian Plaza Brisbane
2023 Finalist, Rotary Art Award, Riparian Plaza Brisbane
2023 Finalist, Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane, Australia
2023 Finalist, Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2022 Finalist, Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2022 Finalist, Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize
2021 Finalist, Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2021 Finalist, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
2020 Finalist, Brisbane Portrait Prize Brisbane Powerhouse
2020 Finalist, Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane, Australia
2020 Finalist, Lethbridge 20,000 Small Scale Art Award, Paddington
2019 Finalist, Brisbane Portrait Prize, Brisbane Powerhouse
2019 Winner Best Mixed Media, Overall Highly Commended, Rotary Art Spectacular, Brisbane
2019 Finalist, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Art Prize
2019 Finalist, Lethbridge 20,000 Small Scale Art Award, Paddington
2018 Finalist, Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award, Paddington
2018 Finalist, Frankie Good Stuff Awards, 'Art & Illustration' Category
2018 Finalist, SDA International Exhibition in Print, Family Matters, Santa Fe
2017 Finalist, Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award, Paddington,
2016 Finalist, Clayton Utz Art Award, Brisbane, Australia
2016 Finalist, Highly Commended & Peoples Choice Winner - Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award, Paddington
2015 Finalist, Kennedy Art Prize, Adelaide, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Solo Exhibition, Way of Being, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2023 Solo Exhibition, By The Way, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2022 Solo Exhibition, The Land of SonderLethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2021 Solo Exhibition, Eunoia, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2020 Human Kind, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, July 24- August 11
2019 In All She Is, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, September 14- October 1
2018 Quietude, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, May 19-June 6
2017 Blush, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, June 24 to 5 July
group exhibitions
2022 Group Show, Interconnected, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, NERAM Museum, Armidale
2021 Lethbridge Group Exhibition, Home, Lethbridge Gallery , Brisbane
2020 Grammar Art Show, Toowoomba
2019 CODA Gallery, Palm Desert, California
2018 AK Bellinger Gallery, Christmas Exhibition
2018 Downlands Art Exhibition, Toowoomba
2018 SDA International Exhibition in Print, Family Matters, Paseo Del Sol, Santa Fe
