Hornsby Art Prize

James Powditch

James Powditch is an acclaimed Australian artist, working in mixed media. He adapts the associated memory or essence of his found objects and fabricates them into his own hybrid ‘functioning’ art forms, which in their essence objectify communication. Powditch picks out the gems like a Bower bird of our modern world - its byproducts of film, text, cartography, and architecture are often influences, if not physically present in his assemblages, continuing to feed his narrative of mindfulness and self-awareness. Aligning an artist’s quintessential need to make with the universal impulse to imbibe photos and objects with memories as markers of existence. Powditch’s wistfully beautiful artworks are the result of a steady and successful exhibiting career. He has been a finalist nine times in the Archibald Prize, eleven times in the Wynne Prize, six times in the Sulman Prize, twice in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and he has won the Mosman Art Prize and the Blake Prize.

Powditch is represented by Nanda Hobbs, Sydney.

Nicole Mather

Nicole Mather is a Senior Visual Effects Artist, specialising in concept art and environment production. She has over 20 years’ digital production experience creating 2D/3D environments, characters and artwork for Australian and international films and television. Working in the Film and Television industry has taken her around the world, living on location, for various productions. She has worked with numerous award-winning studios including DreamWorks Animation, Weta Digital, and Animal Logic on films including Avatar, The Matrix Reloaded, Moulin Rouge, Hacksaw Ridge and many more. While predominantly a digital artist, her experience with the traditional arts of painting and illustrating are the foundation for her work in Visual Effects. She is also a mentor and Lecturer in Visual Effects (VFX) at the school of Art & Design, UNSW, Sydney. Mather’s film credits are on IMDb.

Chris Langlois

Chris Langlois has held over 35 solo exhibitions throughout Australia, been curated into countless group exhibitions and selected as a finalist in numerous art prizes including the Wynne Prize, AGNSW. He has been painting for almost 30 years, and his intense study of the Australian landscape has remained constant and strong. Characterised by subtle shifts of light, his works explore atmospheric skies and seascapes, transcending time and space.

He is represented in many public collections including Bendigo Art Gallery, Newcastle Art Gallery, Campbelltown Art Gallery, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, Maitland City Art Gallery, Glasshouse Regional Art Gallery (Port Macquarie), Parliament House, Canberra, The University of Newcastle, University of Technology, Sydney, Artbank, as well as numerous corporate and private collections. Langlois is represented by Olsen Gallery, Sydney.