About the Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award

This exhibition will feature the work of leading new media artists invited to participate in the second Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award. An award of $75 000 will be presented to one of the exhibiting artists.

The exhibition and award are presented every two years, with winning works become part of the Queensland Art Gallery’s Collection.

Accompanying the award and exhibition is the $25 000 Premier of Queensland’s New Media Scholarship, which will be presented to an emerging Queensland-based new media artist.

The 2010 selection committee comprises Tony Ellwood, Director, Queensland Art Gallery; Bec Dean, Associate Director, Performance Space, Sydney; and Larissa Hjorth, artist and Senior Lecturer in Digital Art and Games Programs at the School of Creative Media and Computer Science at RMIT, Melbourne. The Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh, MP, is scheduled to announce both the award winner and the scholarship recipient on Friday 27 August 2010.

2010 short-listed artists

Philip Brophy (VIC) | Nigel Helyer (NSW) | Chris Howlett (QLD) | Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine (VIC) | Wade Marynowsky (NSW) | Soda_Jerk (NSW) | Lynette Wallworth (NSW)