Sam Petersen wins 2024 Incinerator Art Award
Sam Petersen wins 2024 Incinerator Art Award
Sam Petersen (pictured, right) was named as the winner of the prestigious $10,000 Incinerator Art Award at Incinerator Gallery on Friday night.
Petersen’s work, You Need Us (2023) (pictured in background) was selected from a pool of 266 entries received from emerging and established artists across Australia. In response to the theme ‘Art for Social Change’, these artists presented powerful works that explore critical issues shaping our world today including Indigenous knowledge, queer histories, the climate crisis, class, diversity, inclusion, gender and identity.
The esteemed jury panel declared Petersen’s You Need Us, 2023, as the standout among the 27 shortlisted artworks. Now in its tenth year, this exhibition stands at the pinnacle of artistic programming, fostering positive social awareness within the local community and across Australia.
Also announced was the $1,000 City of Moonee Valley Mayoral Award winner. Chiara Zeta was selected for her work Un/believable 2 (2024), who met the thematic brief through highlighting the slogans of generations of women’s rights and in the communication of ideas from the feminist movement from the past and present.
The $1,000 People’s Choice Award is open for judging by gallery visitors up until 24th November 2024.
Since 2014, the Incinerator Art Award has helped identify and create a platform for over 3000 of Australia’s pre-eminent emerging and established artists addressing societal challenges and opportunities for social good. Each year, the artists are carefully selected and given the opportunity to participate in a program considered the foremost in the emergent art scene. The Award program is a critical component of the Gallery’s mission to spearhead Australia’s creative industry in the northwestern suburbs of Melbourne/Naarm.
Incinerator Art Award shortlisted artists:
Ali Tahayori | Annette Wagner | Ari Angkasa | Autumn Tansey |Ayman Kaake | Carla Zimbler | Cecilia Sordi Campos | Chiara Zeta | Elyas Alavi | Jacqui Gordon | Jahkarli Romanis | James Hazel | jemi gale with skramzwife, Fleur, Luyuan Zhang, Jess Tan, Marlo Mogensen, Matilda Davis, mararara, Gigi De Lacy and Rumer Elisabetta Guario | Jincheng Deng | Jo Chew | Justyne Allen | Kieran Butler | Miream Salameh | Niki Koutouzi | Noah Spivak | Sam Petersen | Sarah Ujmaia | Shelley Watters | Steven Bellosguardo | Tay Haggarty | Yandell Walton | Zena Cumpston.
Jurors
Bec Cole, Executive Director and Co-CEO of Footscray Community Arts
Nikki Lam, Co-Director of Hyphenated Projects and Biennial
Sebastian Henry-Jones, Curator at West Space
Incinerator Gallery
Incinerator Gallery is considered a leader in Australia’s emergent art scene and critical social discourse. Incinerator Gallery is a platform for unique cultural experiences that connect society through art and design. Visitors come to discover, share knowledge, learn, and engage in meaningful social interaction. Incinerator Gallery champions creative perspectives that strengthen communities.
Inspired by the visionary ideals of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, architects of the historic Essendon incinerator building, they continue to embrace their belief in integrating Modernist architecture with the natural environment, supporting care and custodianship on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country. This commitment deepens the significance of the Incinerator Art Award.
Exhibition details:
Incinerator Gallery, 180 Holmes Road, Aberfeldie, 3040
More information at incineratorgallery.com.au
Exhibition dates:
Saturday, 14 September – Sunday, 24 November 2023
People’s Choice Award winner announced:
28 November 2024.
Incinerator Art Awards Programs:
Till Kingdom Come, Which Side Are You On? Saturday 23rd November, at 11am or 2pm
Social Justice Art for Teens, Tuesday 1 – Thurs 3, October: Three-day workshop, for young people aged between 11-17.
Image: Incinerator Art Award 2024, installation photo of Sam Petersen and the 2024 Art Award judges Sebastian Henry-Jones, Bec Cole and Nikki Lam. Photography by Gianna Rizzo.