Though it’s been a relatively quiet week for awards, those presented have been significant indeed.
The Blake Prize – presented annually since 1951 to an artist of any faith whose work explores the religious and spiritual in art in any media – was this year presented posthumously for the first time. Trevor Nickolls won the $25,000 award for Metamorphosis, a work which depicts an Aboriginal man transforming into a butterfly on his way to the spiritual realm. The judges’ statement said the work engaged with ideas of transformation and the interrelationship of worldly elements and spirit.
