2021 STILL: National Still Life Award — Chloe Waters

2021 STILL:

National Still Life Award

59 Finalists

14 Aug - 23 Oct

Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery

Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, Jordan Azcune, Julie Bartholomew, Samuel Beattie, Catherine Bell, Peter Berner, Yannick Blattner, Sophie Bottomley, Kristin Burgham, Steve Bush, Penelope Campbell, Jacob Canet-Gibson, Regi Cherini, Michael Cook, Grace Cram, Mitchell Donaldson, Kate Dorrough, Blak Douglas, Katherine Edney, Ernabella Arts, Sebastian Galloway, Susan Gourley, Libby Haines, Charlotte Haywood, Emma Hodges, Harley Ives, Susan Jacobsen, Josh Juett, Violetta Lanza, Chris Leaver, Donna Marcus, Kiata Mason, Noel McKenna, Nikky Morgan-Smith, the incrEdible Museum, Michelle Neal, Pamela Pauline, Sarah Randall, Genevieve Felix Reynolds, Rose Rigley, Avan Robins, Brian Robinson, Lucy Roleff, Yul Scarf, Daniel Sherington, Ken Smith, Kylie Spear with Thomas Kidd, Dannielle Thorman, John Van Der Kolk, Oksana Waterfall, Gerry Wedd, Greg Weight, Polly Wells, Cleo Wilkinson, Elizabeth Willing, Andrea Wilson, Chris Wilson, Kat Shapiro Wood, Peggy Zephyr.

2021 Winner Announcement

Mere hours after the announcement of a statewide lockdown, we joined the finalists remotely to celebrate the winning work, announced by Elizabeth Ann Macgregor - Silent Cop 2020, by proud Dunghutti artist Blak Douglas.
Highly Commended mentions went to Michael Cook, Emma Rani Hodges, Rose Rigley, Lucy Roleff and Steve Bush.

Kate Dorrough "Still Waters" 2021
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Charlotte Haywood "It's Now or Never...Caladenia audasii" 2019
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Rose Rigley "My Mothers Objects" 2020
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Dr Catherine Bell "Daphne's Fountain #1 - #3' 2019
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Uncle Richard Widders welcoming visitors to Gumbaynggirr country.
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Kylie Spear with Thomas Kidd 'Interior' 2020
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Chris Leaver 'Deceased Estate' 2021
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Blak Douglas 'Silent Cop' 2020
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Mayor of Coffs Harbour City Council, Denice Knight
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Coordinator Gallery, Museum and Public Art, Catherine Fogarty, STILL 2021 Curator, Chloe Waters ,and Gallery and Museum Curator, Joanna Besley
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Sophie Bottomley 'Undone' 2020
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Detail of Emma Rani Hodges 'Last year it rained more than I had ever seen here, new flowers bloomed from the graves of dead trees and I learnt to tread more lightly - my heart became tender as I searched for the myth of you, my dear spider orchid' 20

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Still 2021 online programs

Still Sundays was a collaboration with art historian and video essayist, Mary McGillivray.
Held over the last week of September and the first week of October, following the AFL and NRL grand finals is the STL Grand final. Run in the lead up to the People’s Choice Award announcement, finalists Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer and Daniel Sherington began the ultimate show down via an instagram sledging match to convince the audience of the artists worthiness of their votes.
In 2020, then Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery Curator Cecile Knight and Research Support Office Kylie Castor launched a pilot online program aimed at engaging audiences in documenting the stillness of COVID-19 lockdown impacts.
Following this initiative, in 2021, once again in lockdown and during the 2021 STILL exhibition, we launched BeStill:Reloaded. The series featured 7 finalists from 2021, each episode explored different mediums, process and other creative explorations. Audiences and artists were able to connect remotely in their creativity.

Saltwater Freshwater Arts 2021