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Emerging artists included in national graduate show in Perth

June 11, 2015

Emerging artists included in national graduate show in Perth

Art work by UOW graduates Karen Paterson and Stephanie Marks are currently on show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA).


Photo: Karen Paterson

Work by Ms Paterson and Ms Marks were selected for PICA's Hatched: National Graduate Show by a panel of distinguished personalities in the art world, such as the Director of Sydney Contemporary art fair, Barry Keldoulis; visual artist Matthew Ngui; PICA Education Program Curator Laura Evans and Hatched Curator, Nadia Johnson.

This year, 22 of Australia’s best art schools and universities nominated 90 students for consideration. A total of 35 artists were selected for the exhibition.


Photo: Karen Paterson

Hatched tracks the changing trends and developments in emerging contemporary art by providing an annual snapshot of the country’s aesthetic ambitions, and a platform for the next generation of Australian artists.

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Photo: Stephanie Marks

Over the years, Hatched has provided a critical springboard for a number of prolific Australian artists and art-world figures, including Nick Mitzevitch and David Noonan (1992), Shaun Gladwell (1997) and recently WA’s George Egerton-Warburton (2009), amongst many others.

Indeed, Hatched has become a rite of passage for Australia’s next generation of artists, and provides an invaluable glimpse into emerging trends in contemporary artistic practice.

For the sixth year running, the Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize of $35,000 will be awarded to one outstanding Hatched artist to further invest in their career.