Hobart Art Prize winners announced

Two $15,000 prizes have been presented to winners in two categories, Glass and Printmaking.
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Image: Banks, Which one’s Mine (detail), Rew Hanks, 2013

A contemporary linocut and a glass sculpture have been announced as the winners of the 2014 Hobart Art Prize.

Rew Hanks’s linocut, Banks, Which one’s Mine, which irreverently recasts Captain Cook and Sir Joseph Banks as participants in a game of cane toad golf; and Tom Moore’s glass work, Light Bulb Moment, were selected as the winning works. Each receives a $15,000 prize.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts