TONEE MESSIAH AWARDED 2022 WAVERLEY ART PRIZE AT BONDI PAVILION

Tonee Messiah has won the 2022 Waverley Art Prize for her painting ‘Accounting for Archetypes’.
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“Messiah, a sessional painting lecturer at UNSW Art and Design and the National Art School, Sydney, was a Waverley Art Prize finalist in 2019 and this year launched a collaborative collection with Melbourne fashion label Gorman.
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She describes her winning artwork as exploring both doubt and desire and ‘the polarising effects of these two states operate as activating forces, one to generate momentum and the other to temper and abate’.
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A record 786 entries were received for the prize…” Mirage News, 23 September 2022