Congratulations to the 2007 Winner
Number 61 Anastasia Klose was the winner of the $15,000 prize
Congratulations to the 2007 People's Choice
Number 95 Margot Sears was the Bell Legal People's Choice Award of $500.
'Feminism has been big news in the artworld recently. Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, the Sistine Chapel of the Women's Art Movement, has finally found a permanent home in the Brooklyn Museum. There are also two massive feminist shows on in the US. There's a rambling survey, Global Feminism, also at the Brooklyn Museum, and Wack, at LA MOCA, which surveys the early days of the mission. These projects seek to underline the ongoing significance of feminism to contemporary art. But perhaps this needs to be said because it doesn't go without saying. One of the big things that constantly surprises me is how many young women artists today make work as if feminism never happened, and, for them, perhaps it didn't. The new generation see things quite differently. The work I have selected, I think, exemplifies this to a tee. Actually, it is all about generation gaps, and not. It is at once heroic and pathetic, touching and irritating, entertaining yet utterly self-indulgent. We are embarrassed to watch, yet we identify. It might not seem finely crafted and yet - for what it is trying to do - I don't think it could be done better. It feels completely contemporary - it could be on YouTube. I give the Prometheus Visual Arts Award to Anastasia Klose, for Film For My Nanna.' - Robert Leonard. Director, INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART at the JUDITH WRIGHT CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS, Brisbane
