The City of Joondalup’s Invitation Art Prize (IAP) celebrates its silver jubilee this year, sharing the impressive milestone with the local government itself having launched in the City’s inaugural year.
Exhibiting this October, the prestigious acquisitive art prize will look different in 2023. Instead of brand-new artworks, for the first time the IAP will feature each year’s winning artwork since the prize’s inception in 1998.
The retrospective exhibition will feature winning artworks by artists of prominence including Erin Coates, Teelah George, Kate McMillan and Brendan van Hek, alongside renowned Indigenous artists Shane Pickett and Mandy White.
Viewers will get another opportunity to see last year’s winning artwork, a beaded roast chook bag by artist Emma Buswell that went viral on social media across the country.
Buswell has since followed up her original winning creation with the controversial Vegemite basted version of the supermarket classic.
Joondalup Mayor Albert Jacob said the IAP provides a moment to reflect on the changes to WA contemporary art over the last quarter century.
“Over the past 25 years, the IAP has showcased artworks by 732 artists from across the state, many who are now recognised on a national and even international level,” Mayor Jacob said.
“In this year’s retrospective iteration of the IAP, we proudly look back at the winning artworks, celebrating both the evolution of this prestigious prize and of WA’s contemporary art offering.”
The Invitation Art Prize: 25 Year Retrospective will be on public display at Westfield Whitford City from Monday 2 October – Saturday 21 October during shopping centre opening hours.
Full list of exhibiting artists:
Nicole Andrijevic, Graeme Burge, Emma Buswell, Susanna Castleden, Erin Coates, Trevor Bly and Patrick Doherty, Ellhan Eshraghian-Haakansson, Teelah George, Lee Harrop, Paul Hinchcliffe, Bevan Honey, Paul Kaptein, Richie Kuhaupt, Jarrad Martyn, Kate McMillan, Mark Parfitt, Concetta Petrillo, Meeyakba Shane Pickett, Trevor Richards, Susan Roux, Jon Tarry, Brendan van Hek, and Lynette Voevodin and Rodney Glick.
