Ink Art Competition: Winners Announced
We are thrilled to announce that Brian Connolly has won the inaugural Ink Art Competition with his piece “Some Place Else”.
Brian’s winning piece will be featured in the packaging of our limited edition Ink Art Series Gin, to be released in 2022.
THE WINNER: Brian Connolly’s “Some Place Else” has won the inaugural Ink Art Competition.
Brian’s expression flows from a childhood deep in the Gold Coast hinterland where solitude led to solace and nature became companion. Through the theme of interconnectedness, Brian explores the way in which we each are linked to one another and to the natural world.
Of “Some Place Else”, Brian says;
“I feel complete soul expansion sitting in a quiet corner of nature, drifting off into 'Some Place Else' We are fundamentally connected to nature and I strive to embody that relationship through my creations.
The flowers in my artwork represent a bridge between the natural world and human life and the idea that we all have an internal garden that we must continuously nourish.
This contemplative and colourful flower is looking into the depths of the divine. Fluid and celestial in nature, the figure urges you to look beneath the layers, opening up possiblities to shift something stagnant within, and to awaken the dormant seeds to allow the inner blooms to flourish.”
A huge congratulations to Brian for winning the competition in a highly competitive field of over 400 entries.
RUNNERS UP
Congratulations also to our two runners up Claudio Kirac and Kate Mason. View their work and read their artist statements below.
RUNNER UP: Claudio Kirac ‘Starlight Bloom’
“Blooms, Spring, Summer at the edge of a new chapter of life, making life, celebrating life. We fall wholeheartedly, with peace and silence, into white noise, to journey into flowering abundance.”
RUNNER UP: Kate Mason
I wanted my interpetation "Colour from Nature" to be Australian colour. For me, Australian native flowers show this perfectly as they are just like our land, wild, harsh
and beautiful, with impossible colours blending into eachother, Instantly identifable as Australian, these Banksias and Proteas represent what i see as an Australian colour palette.