Australia’s Most Significant Thematic Christian Art Prize
ONLINE OPINION
By Peter Sellick
AUSTRALIA---It is the aim of the Mandorla Art Award to challenge artists to create art that is a response to a set reading from Scripture. By doing this we hope to encourage works that belongs to the great tradition of Christian art that attempts to deepen the faith. We find it an irony that although art in the Latin West and Orthodox East found its beginning in this tradition, very little art in this vein is now produced. Moreover, churches now rarely commission art whose function it is to enrich the imagination of worshippers. There are exceptions, the windows of the Roman Catholic cathedral in Bunbury, produced by the late Robert Juniper being one excellent example. [link]
The Mandorla Art Award exhibition will be open to the public between the 19th and the 27th July at Linton and Kay Galleries 137 St Georges Tce. Perth. Details may be found at http://www.mandorlaart.com.
By Peter Sellick
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| 2004 Mandorla Art Award Winner: Michael Kane Taylor, "Pedilavium", Digital print on paper on canvas. |
The Mandorla Art Award exhibition will be open to the public between the 19th and the 27th July at Linton and Kay Galleries 137 St Georges Tce. Perth. Details may be found at http://www.mandorlaart.com.