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| 2009 Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize |
Scott was selected as a finalist in the 2009 Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize.
Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize, is one of Australia’s prestigious and most lucrative art competitions.
Fifty-seven artists plus fifteen former winners and 10 finalists from the Archibald, Wynne, Sulman and Dobell Art Prizes are included in this year’s prize which celebrates 20 years.
These award winning artists include Robert Juniper, Brian Dunlop, Joanne Currie Nalingu, Graham Fransalla and Euan Macleod.
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 | Fire off the shoulder of Tibrogargan
2009
Oil and wax on cotton
100cm x 100cm
Collection of the artist |
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This is one of only a few works of mine that can move me to cry. The local Aboriginal people the Gubbi Gubbi have a legend about the Glass House mountains that, in part, inspired the painting. It was upon rereading the legend for this story that I remembered that it is all about crying.
The painting is about loss, suffering and death.
I identify strongly with this image, it was a very sad time in my life.
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I am a big Monet fan and the Glass House Mountains make me think of his series paintings, particularly the Haystacks and Rouen Cathedral.
Growing up on the Sunshine Coast, the Rouen Cathedral paintings had reminded me of Tibrogargan, the facade is suggestive of the human skull. The rose window looks like an eye socket to me. Monet was an atheist and I wouldn't be surprised if this was his intention.
I travelled to Sydney and the Art Gallery of NSW just to see the Monet exhibition and was moved to tears by one of the Rouen Cathedral paintings.
I have kept small framed prints, one each of the Haystacks and Rouen Cathedral series, which are still beside me as I write.
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|  | | Claude Monet
Grainstack/Haystack Sunset 1893
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Driving back to Brisbane from Caloundra one afternoon I noticed that the mountains were shrouded in smoke from nearby fires.
I was excited because I had pondered the difficulty of getting a foggy atmosphere like some of the cathedral paintings, and this seemed the perfect opportunity.
I had a real moment with fate and the mountain. I found a vantage point directly in front and to the east of Tibrogargan. The sun was setting off the northern shoulder to the west and the light was filtered by the heavy smoke haze. The scene was spectacular, the back lit smoke obscured much of the detail in the rock.
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|  | | Claude Monet
Rouen Cathedral Facade 1894 |
The painting's title comes from lines spoken by actor Rutger Hauer in the movie Blade Runner, which had been on my mind:
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion
I watched C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhauser gate
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain
Time to die"
Roy Batty's last words are evocative, and the line "Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion" is powerfully declarative. However, the name Orion alludes to classical mythology. I wanted my title to have the same gravitas but to speak both to the local legend and my own experience, hence - "Fire off the shoulder of Tibrogargan".
The image is at once a mountain, itself an ancient fire, a person, a tragic mythical hero, an ancestor made visible through the rainbow coloured light of the smoke filtered sun.
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New South Wales artists Euan Macleod won the 2009 Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize. Macleod’s painting ‘Painting Mountains ’Oil on Polyester is a strong colourful work depicting an artist in the foreground painting the subject of Macleod’s painting of the Flinders Ranges.
This theme of using a human image in the landscape has been a signature stroke of the New Zealand born artist. Macleod won the Archibald Prize with a self portrait Head like a Hole in 1999 and Sulman Prize in 2001. This is the second occasion that Macleod has won the Tattersall’s Club Art Prize. Macleod receives $20,000 for his win.
Sydney artist Paul Ryan has won the Highly Commended Award taking away two business class airfares to Europe. Ryan has been a frequent finalist in both the Wynne and Archibald Prizes including the 2009 Archibald prize where his subject was Tom Kenneally while his final entry in 2009 Wynne was titled My Home is the Sea
The Club’s Members Choice Award was won by Scott McDougall with his painting Lines and Whispers, Redfern.
The Exhibition will be relocated to Waterfront Place in Eagle St Brisbane for two weeks of public viewing from Monday September 14. Images of the entries to this year’s Art Prize are available on the Clubs website.
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