Since we last featured Mel Sinclair, she has been busy at work entering her simple yet powerful landscapes into several prestigious art prizes held within Southeast Queensland.
Mel is proud to announce that she has achieved Finalist positions in both the Milburn Art Prize for her image “Keeping Score” hosted by the Brisbane Institute of Art, Windsor, and the Lethbridge Landscape Prize, for her image “Linger”, hosted by the Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington.
Ipswich artist Grant Quinn was the last to achieve this double feature in 2021.
Fellow artists also featured in these prizes is LeeAnn Vincent in the Lethbridge Prize and Andrea Baumert Howard in the Milburn Art Prize.
The inspiration behind both works by Mel is the smaller textures and scenes around Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, a place that Mel visits annually in late autumn, to catch the turning of the Fagus, a deciduous beech tree that is native to only two locations in the highlands of Tasmania.
While Mel has since sold both “Keeping Score” and “Linger” from these two prizes, she will have works in the upcoming Ipswich Art Awards and the Ipswich Show Photography sections, both of which will be for sale.
In addition to this, Mel is also producing promotional material for the local Crossfyre Players upcoming production of “This is Absurd! – Four Short Plays” directed by Suzanne Matulich.
