PRIZES | PARAMOR PRIZE
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Join us February 18 for the exhibition opening, a free event beginning at 6pm.
We are thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2017 Paramor Prize!
Yvette Hamilton
Caroline Rothwell
Britt Salt
Kailum Graves
Mehwish Iqbal
James Nguyen
Gabriella Wilson
Nuha Saad
Valerie Restarick
Laura Delaney
Susannah Williams
Matthew James
Tina Barahanos
Fiona Kerr Gedson
Owen Leong
Emma Fielden
Lee Bethel
Helen Amanatiadis
Len Hurley
Sardar Sinjawi
Megan McPherson
Julian Brady
Julian Talarico
Katy Plummer
Patrick Cremin
Atanas Djonov
Marian Abboud
Ben Denham
Angela Tiatia
Amala Groom
Meet the Judges
Luke Paramor, son of the prize namesake and renowned local artist Wendy Paramor, donated a significant collection of her work to CPAC. Luke lives and works in Newcastle with his wife and children.
2016 Paramor Prize winner Erica Seccombe is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Australian National University School of Art. She was recently awarded the prestigious 2017 Capital Arts Patrons CAPO Fellowship. Her practice spans from traditional and photographic print media to experimental digital platforms using frontier scientific visualisation software.
Dr George (Poonkhin) Khut is an artist and interaction-designer working across the fields of electronic art, design and health. His body-focussed interactive and participatory artworks use biosensing technologies to re-frame experiences of embodiment, health and subjectivity.