Gallery
Katherine Artprize, 2016 – Roadtrip
Acrylic and oil on found car bonnet.
Artbank collection, purchased 2017.
Pennyrose Wiggins was the winner of the 41st Katherine Artprize and the $5000 Brian and Jeanette Lambert Art Award at the Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre, Katherine. Judged by Dr Wendy Garden, Curator of Australian Art at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
‘Over the 5 years I have been living in Darwin I have travelled the road to Katherine and beyond many times. The old bonnet is a reference to this journey, it is a vehicle to view the landscapes and birds.
I enjoyed painting on this bonnet, the colour palette of the Northern Territory can be found upon its surface the scrape marks, rust and dirt provides the perfect medium to start forming the fires and the harsh dry terrain accompanied by the tropical storms of the build up.’