Previous winners
Peter Alwast | Everything (detail) 2008 | 3-D digital animation, 1080 QuickTime file, three-channel projection exhibited from hard drive, 16:9, colour, stereo, 5 minutes. Sound production in collaboration with David Johnston | The Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award 2008. Purchased 2008 with funds from the Queensland Government | Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
Previous winners
Peter Alwast
The winner of the inaugural Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award in 2008 was Brisbane artist Peter Alwast. His digital animation Everything 2008 combined 3-D computer modelling with video, sound, photography and abstract painting. Alwast subsequently took up artist residencies in Berlin and New York, and his work has been presented in group exhibitions at the Tate Modern, London, and Loop Gallery, Seoul. In 2010, Alwast’s work was included in ‘Utopia Now: Experimenta International New Media Festival’ in Melbourne (and touring Australia), and his work Everything was selected for the international award exhibition ‘Update_3/Body Sound’ at the Zebrastraat in Ghent, Belgium, an initiative of the Liedts-Meesen Foundation and co-presented with the Centre Pompidou, Paris. His work will be shown at Para/Site, Hong Kong, from July to September this year.
Leah Barclay
Since winning the inaugural Premier of Queensland’s New Media Scholarship in 2008, Leah Barclay has performed, published and produced commissioned works across Australia, New Zealand, Europe, India, Korea, China and the United States. Specialising in electro-acoustic music and currently completing her PhD, Leah used the scholarship to assist with the presentation of her research and creative works at various festivals and conferences throughout Canada, South America, India and China. Leah has since completed projects on the floor of the Australian ocean, lava caves in New Zealand and in rural areas in South India. Since winning the award, she has also worked as a lecturer, producer and facilitator in projects that develop international opportunities for emerging artists. In 2009, Leah was awarded an Asialink Performing Artist Residency in South Korea, and her installation Sound mirrors was selected as one of four national projects for the HELM Award, an initiative of The Australia Council of the Arts and the Queensland Conservation Council.
