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ASIA ART PRIZE WINNERS

Five artists from across the Asian region have been named as winners in the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011, announced at an award ceremony held at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) on 17 November 2011.

Filipino artist Rodel Tapaya was awarded the Grand Prize, worth SGD45,000, for his acrylic on canvas, Baston ni Kabunian, Bilang Pero di Mabilang (Cane of Kabunian, numbered but cannot be counted), a painting which was completed by the artist in 2010. Tapaya’s artwork was selected as the winning entry from fifteen artworks shortlisted from the 130 nominations received from 24 countries and territories across Asia Pacific.

Rodel Tapaya, 'Baston ni Kabunian, Bilang Pero di Mabilang (Cane of Kabunian, numbered but cannot be counted)', 2010, acrylic on canvas, 305 x 610 x 8 cm. Image courtesy Tiroche DeLeon Collection and Art Vantage Ltd.

APB Foundation Signature Art Grand Prize winner for 2011, Filipino artist Rodel Tapaya. Image courtesy APB Foundation Signature Art Prize.

Four other artists were also presented with awards. A Jurors’ Choice Award, worth SGD10,000, went to Daniel Crooks from Australia for Static No.12 (seek stillness in movement), Sheba Chhachhi from India for The Water Diviner and Aida Makoto from Japan for Ash Color Mountains. The Peoples’ Choice Award, worth SGD10,000, went to Michael Lee from Singapore for his artwork Second-Hand City.

Click here to read more about the artists and their works on the Signature Art Prize website.

Daniel Crooks, Static No.12 (seek stillness in movement), 2010, single-channel HD video (RED 2 K mastered to Blu-ray), dimensions variable, 5m:23s. Artist collection. Image courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.

Video artist Daniel Crooks (Australia), winner of one of three Jurors' Choice Awards, presented by the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011.

Sheba Chhachhi, 'The Water Diviner', 2008, installation with video, books, light boxes and sound, light and water, dimensions variable. Artist collection.

Aida Makoto, 'Ash Color Mountains', 2009-2010, acrylic on canvas, 300 x 700 cm. Taguchi Art Collection. Image courtesy Taguchi Art Collection and Mizuma Art Gallery.

Japanese painter Aida Makoto, winner of one of three Jurors' Choice Awards, presented by the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011.

Michael Lee, 'Second-Hand City', 2010, digital print on archival paper; edition 6 of 10 + AP; set of 8 episodes, 123 x 123 cm, total 8 pieces. Artist collection.

Singaporean artist Michael Lee, winner of the People's Choice Award, presented by the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011.

The fifteen shortlisted artworks can be viewed at the Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011 Finalists Exhibition from now until 4 March 2012 at the Singapore Art Museum.

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MYANMAR BURMA ART SPACES GALLERIES ARTISTS

In an article written for The New York Times, Ceil Miller Bouchet introduces us to the budding art scene in Yangon, the biggest city in isolated Myanmar. He explores the art galleries, both commercial and artist-run, and meets established and emerging artists.

Aye Ko, 'Self Portrait 01', 1999-2007.

At the beginning of the article, Bouchet introduces us to Kyee Myintt Saw, a Burmese artist who paints “impressionistic oils of market scenes” while dreaming of a day when sketching nudes will be socially acceptable. Indeed, much of the art made by artists working in the country is of an abstract or semi-abstract nature, and all of the works have traditional, acceptable imagery as their subject. Aung Aung Taik, a locally-born artist who now resides in the US, is quoted by the writer as saying, “Painters learn excellent technique, but there’s no Allen Ginsberg in Burmese tradition.”

Click here to read the original article, titled “New Vistas for Burmese Artists”, in its entirety on the The New York Times website.

Despite the restrictions on subject, Myanmar is beginning to hold itself up to the outside world. A number of the artists mentioned by Bouchet have exhibited internationally: Aung Myint, winner of the 2002 “Jurors’ Choice Award” at the ASEAN Art Awards in Bali, Aye Ko, who has participated in residency programmes in Southeast Asia and beyond, and emerging artist Mor Mor, whose work, “NEXT”, won her second place in the Sovereign Asian Art Prize (Public Vote) in 2008. In addition, younger artists now have access to external influences via the Internet and interaction with international visitors. Other artists mentioned in the piece include Nyein Chan Su (also known as NCS), Min Zaw and Ming Wae Ung.

Aung Aung Taik, 'Fish Number 10', mixed media sculpture, created during a residency at New Zero Art Space in January 2010. © 2011 Aung Aung Taik.

Five galleries are profiled, many of which are owned by local artists and run on very tight budgets. River Gallery, which shows “figurative and semi-abstract work”, has been in operation for six years, Inya Gallery, founded in 1989, offers audiences and buyers mostly abstract fare and New Treasure Art Gallery has been holding exhibitions since the late Eighties. Newer galleries include New Zero Art Space, founded by Aye Ko, which focuses on international artist exchanges, and Studio Square, which is both an art space and a shared studio.

Aung Myint, 'Mother and Child', 2007, mixed media: ceramic and color, 18 x 23 cm. Image credit: Thavibu Gallery.

Have you travelled to Myanmar recently? Tell us about the art spaces and artists you encountered on your visit by leaving a comment below.

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Discover the next generation of artists from 20 Aboriginal art centres across Western Australia at the same time as the visiting political leaders of Commonwealth countries. For, Perth has it all in indigenous art at the moment. As well as the brilliant Canning Stock Route show (ex-National Museum) and the WA Indigenous Art Prize at the WA Art Gallery, 47 emerging artists have been selected to be Revealed at the Central Institute of Technology until 12th November.

And this weekend you can buy their exciting new works in the Revealed Marketplace – a rare opportunity in Perth to buy affordable paintings, prints, wood and fibre works, with prices ranging from $250 upwards. More than 80 emerging artists are visiting Perth for the exhibition and marketplace.

The State’s Culture and Arts Minister, John Day believes Revealed will reinforce the importance of indigenous culture to Western Australia. It will also provide, he says, an excellent opportunity for the next generation of indigenous artists and cultural workers to build networks and skills and have access to a commercial audience.

The idea was first tried in 2008 and attracted more than 1,700 people. It’s taken CHOGM to rerun the excellent project – now in the hands of curators Tim Acker and Thelma John. This year’s artists were selected from 119 applicants, some around Perth, but mostly from remote WA communities such as Mowanjum, off the Gibb River Road in The Kimberley, Wirnda Barna an emerging art community at Mt Magnet in the Mid-West, and the Tjarlirli Community in the Western Desert. The emerging artists were identified as long ago as last May, giving them plenty of time to come up with their best works for this event.

As well as paintings, there are a broad range of works including carvings and fibre art. Barry Belotti from Gwoonwardu Mia: Gascoyne Aboriginal Heritage & Cultural Centre Inc will show his carved spearheads. Baker Lane from Martumili Artists in the East Pilbara will show clubs, boomerangs and shields. Such wooden artefacts are still made by many Aboriginal men across WA, for daily use and for sale, but have not always been regarded as highly collectable. However, the making of spears is part an important cultural practice and represents continuity across the ages. The inscriptions and markings on these objects are specific to a region or language group, depicting cultural stories which can then be translated into the other mediums that we are more familiar with such as paintings. Carvings are like going back to the source material.

Revealed is the only Aboriginal art market in Western Australia, allowing buyers access to a range of unique artwork and to meet artists in an informal and friendly environment.

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INDIA CANADA PHOTOGRAPHY ART PRIZE

Indian photographers Gauri Gill and Nandini Valli make up one half of the 2011 finalist selection for the Canadian-based, internationally focused The Grange Prize, the country’s largest cash art award and the only one in which the winner is decided by public vote.

Gauri Gill, 'Urma and Nimli, Lunkaransar', from the series "Notes from the Desert", 1999-2010, silver gelatin print, 61 x 76 cm. Image courtesy the artist and Nature Morte Gallery. © 2011 Gauri Gill.

Gauri Gill was born in Chandigarh, India, in 1970, and currently resides in New Delhi. Gill was educated first at the Delhi College of Art, then at Parsons in New York and at Stanford University in California. She began exhibiting in 2007, and since then has held numerous solo exhibitions in India, America and Europe, the most recent being “What Remains” at Green Cardamom Gallery in London in 2011.

The jury said of her nomination for the prize:

Gill’s practice is complex because it contains several seemingly discrete lines of pursuit. These include her more than a decade long study of marginalised communities in Rajasthan, of women from different generations and their often tentative encounter with modernity. She has also investigated and recorded issues around migrancy, and the decrepitude and change generated by an expanding city. Working in both black and white as well as colour, she seeks out the narratives of ordinary heroism within challenging environments. Gill’s work also addresses the twinned Indian identity markers of class and community as determinants of mobility and social behaviour. In these works there is irony, a rugged documentary spirit and a human concern over issues of survival.

Nandini Valli, 'Disillusioned 1', 2003, from the series "Definitive Reincarnate", inkjet print on archival paper, 76 x 76 cm. Image courtesy the artist and Sakshi Gallery. © 2011 Nandini Valli.

Nandini Valli was born in 1976, and raised in Chennai, India, where she continues to live and work. Initially working as an apprentice to a commercial photographer, it was not until she made the decision to pursue a degree in photography from the Arts University College in Bournemouth, UK, that she realised she was more suited to producing art photographs. She has been showing her work publicly since 2007 and is currently represented by Sakshi Gallery in Mumbai.

The jury said of her nomination for the prize:

One of the less historicised, recently celebrated strains in Indian photography is the performative photograph. Nandini Valli Muthiah has rapidly emerged as one of its foremost exponents. Nandini draws upon a long, established tradition in Indian popular art, the hyperrealist painted calendar poster of the gods. It is a widely recognised style, one that incorporates traditional painting and the painted photograph within a ‘mythologised’ space. The element of subversion lies in the way in which the heroic figure is represented within normal or ‘modern’ environments. A blue-bodied god in a hotel room, or young girls masquerading as Indira Gandhi at a fancy dress show, are comments on India’s perception of the heroic as much as on middle-class aspirations. Nandini Valli Muthiah approaches photography much like a cinema auteur, constructing every aspect of her frame. Her work shows a mature and ironic understanding of a shifting aesthetic field and value system in an increasingly globalising India.

The nominating jury was made up of four art professionals, two each from India and Canada, and included Michelle Jacques, AGO acting curator of Canadian Art, Wayne Baerwaldt, acting vice president of research and academic affairs at Alberta College of Art + Design, Gayatri Sinha, a Delhi-based art critic and curator, and Sunil Gupta, a photographer, writer and curator born in India and living in New Delhi and London.

Work by The Grange Prize finalists is on show in Canada until 27 November 2011, and the winner, who will take home CAD50,000, will be announced on 2 November 2011. The Grange Prize was founded in 2008 and each year since has selected four finalists, two each from Canada and a partner country.

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