Year 12 Sacred Heart College student Caitlin Barker-Malcolm was awarded First Prize in the Angelico Art Exhibition for her art work titled “New Game” on Tuesday August 14.
Writing in the college newsletter, school principal Peter Bothe said that the painting on a large canvas, “… is a piece that will provoke a thoughtful reflection on the nexus between the digital and natural world.
“Caitlin has shown a technical mastery of the oil medium and demonstrated a great sensitivity to her theme. She has skilfully juxtaposed a number of incongruous elements to create a dynamic composition and a memorable image.”
The main judge of the award, Dr Kirsten Hudson, an art educator from Curtin University, commented that she “kept coming back” to the painting. The quote below is a transcript of her comments.
“This work was just amazing, it has an amazing use of materials and techniques that reinforced every concept under consideration. Again this work took great restraint, shown in the execution of the work so the viewer is able to position themselves philosophically without feeling judged.
“Aesthetically and conceptually evocative, this work is stunning and I recommend that all of you go and see the use of materials and the way the materials and techniques themselves reinforce the concepts under consideration.”
The Angelico Award is the major prize in the Catholics Schools’ Art awards. It is named in honour of Fra Angelico, a 15th Century monk who painted all the contemplative frescos in the cells of the monks in the monastery of San Marco in Florence.
The exhibition was opened by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB and is housed in the foyer of 221 St Georges Tce.