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INCINERATOR ART AWARD: ART FOR SOCIAL CHANGE | INCINERATOR GALLERY | MELBOURNE
7 OCTOBER - 26 NOVEMBER 2017
OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER 6-8PM
Becc Ország is a finalist in this years Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change with her drawing 'Hope (align yourself with me)'. The Incinerator Art Award is $10,000 non-acquisitive award of national significance with entries received from every state and territory in Australia. The award showcases the work of 22 artists who interrogate contemporary culture in their practices to achieve and influence social change.
Becc's most ambitious drawing to date 'The Source of All Things (Birth of The Rivers)' has been selected as a finalist for the 2016 National Works on Paper Prize at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
Sixty-six artists from around Australia have been shortlisted from close to 1,000 entries for the $50,000 National Works on Paper prizes and acquisitions. The prize, the most prestigious acquisitive prize and exhibition of its type in Australia, showcases recent works by artists working in the fields of drawing, printmaking, digital prints and paper sculpture.
Becc Ország was awarded The Young and Emerging Artist Award of $5000 in the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Prize. Her winning entry ‘Rehearsal for all are equal and all may be crowned emperor’ plays with the phenomenon of non-existence, distraction and escapism. She looks at our inherent need to be lead and belong, and brings attention to our tendency to deflect responsibility and blur lines between reality and fantasy in an effort to bring meaning into life.
Becc Orszag's three drawings Do as we do, The Sisters and My other half have been awarded the Highly Commended Prize at this years Churchie National Emerging Art Prize by leading Sydney art dealer and gallerist, Roslyn Oxley. Almost 300 artists from all Australian states and territories entered 'the churchie national emerging art prize' this year...
Becc Orszag has been awarded a Siemens-Rmit Fine Art Travelling Scholarship for her large scale drawing Cannot Contain This. The drawing also took out the Siemens-RMIT Aquisition Prize.
Ms Orszag said the drawing was concerned with losing unique identity within a collected identity. "I’m searching for the moment at which the individual surrenders their unique identity for that of a collective, stemming from a concern of the troubling absence of individual thought within a contemporary society.”