CLIP AWARD
The Contemporary Landscapes in Photography (CLIP) Awards is an internationally open photographic prize for new perspectives in natural and urban landscape photography. The selection criteria focuses on images which are original, stimulating, and that challenge traditional notions of landscape photography.
Overall CLIP Award Winner $1000 x 2, Student Prize Winner $500 x 2, Judges Commendation Prize Winner $500 x 2
2020 CLIP AWARD FINALISTS
Sanja Arambasic Vukelja . James Bugg . Aaron Chapman . Anna Maria Antoinette D’Addario . Luke David . Hannah Davies . Simon Deadman
Brett Leigh Dicks . Alice Ding . Kelsey Douglas . Erin Dowley . Jeremy Drape . Alice Duncan . Liss Fenwick . Mark Forbes . Geoffrey Goddard
Kate Golding . Philip Gostelow . Nick Harrison . Mark Heinersdorff . Lewis Inglis . Davina Jogi . Işık Kaya . Aishah Kenton . Edita Knowler Eduardo Martinez . Stavros Messinis . Millie Murfit . Philip Mylecharane . Ashini Nanayakkara . Mike Reed . Dusty Reid . Johannes Reinhart
Isaac Rollinson . Annette Ruzicka . Raewyn Senff . Christopher Sheils . Vivian Cooper Smith . Lisa Sorgini . Julie Sundberg . Amy Sutrisno
Alec Thomas . Erin Vereker . Hilary Walker . Declan Young
Online Opening Event
6 pm Friday, 14th August 2020
Shoair Mavlian is director of Photoworks and was named Apollo Magazine’s 40 under 40 Europe – Thinkers. As director of Photoworks she curated ‘Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Zone Grise / The Land In between’ for the MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2019) and’ A New Europe, Brighton Photo Biennial’ (2018). From 2011-2018 she was Assistant Curator, Photography and International Art at Tate Modern, London.
Shoair has a background in fine art photography practice and the history of photography focusing on the twentieth century. She has a strong interest in photography relating to conflict and memory, Central and Latin American photography and emerging contemporary practice.
Erin Coates is a Perth based curator, creative producer, and artist. In her creative practice Erin’s artworks span 2D, 3D, and moving image, often combining mediums to generate immersive installations. Her work is shown in both galleries and film festivals and she is currently exhibiting in the 2020 Adelaide Biennial: Monster Theatres at the Art Gallery of South Australia. She was included in the significant survey exhibition The National: New Australian Art, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2017, and in 2019 she was the only Australian artist selected for inclusion in Videobrasil – 21st Contemporary Art Biennial | Imagined Communities, in São Paulo, Brazil. Erin is currently the Special Projects Curator at Fremantle Arts Centre and her recent curatorial projects include Other Suns: Cult Sci-fi Cinema & Art, Bush Women and In Cahoots: artists collaborate across Country. Erin holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Dr Kristian Häggblom is an artist, curator and academic who works with expanded modes of documentary making. He completed his undergraduate studies in 1997 (RMIT) and his PhD, titled Viewing Platforms, in 2014 (Monash University). He has worked extensively in Japan and is the Course Convener of the Master of Arts – Photography program at the Photography Studies College, Melbourne. His work has been exhibited extensively including exhibitions in Australia, Japan, America, India, Mexico and Switzerland. More recently, he curated the large-scale Centre for Contemporary Photography exhibition Tsuka: An Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Photography that was supported by the Japan Foundation.
