Despard Gallery would like to congratulate Zoe Grey, who has been awarded the packing room prize for this year’s Hadley’s Art Prize! The Hadley’s Art Prize is one of the richest landscape art prizes in Australia, with an acquisitive prize of $100,000. The annual prize is awarded to a con-temporary artist for the best interpretation of the Australian landscape. The winner will be an-nounced at the opening of the exhibition finalists’ works at the galleries at Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart, on Friday 2 August. Exhibition runs from 3 – 25 August 2024.
Grey’s entry titled Shape Of Rock [oil on board, 122 x 153 cm] captures her unique intuitive ap-proach to painting, using a combination of bold gestures, blocks of colour and considered mark-making to push the conventions of landscape painting. At the heart of Grey’s practice is using paint to better understand personal bonds to place and how it can play a key role in defining identity, visually describing how these felt relationships peak and fade.