New platform for arts

Noosa resident Beatrice Prost is in the running to win the $2000 prize money for Queensland, as well as the $10,000 prize money for Asia Pacific for the annual Cliftons Art Prize.
Now in its 16th year, Cliftons Art Prize is an annual competition helping raise the profile of local artists while providing new platforms for people to engage with art.
Cliftons Art Prize takes place across 10 locations: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth, Auckland, Wellington, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Beatrice’s piece, Urban Jungles, is a diptych print hand-carved on brushed aluminium and depicts “finding poetry into what the future could be in a deeply urbanised place“.
Beatrice’s passion is to explore the ailing planet from a top-down environmentalist perspective, while in an opposite but complementary search using the details and finer beauties of everyday life in miniature to capture the delicate magic of the world directly around us.
Beatrice’s work will be on display at the exhibition of artworks, from 11 October to 15 December at Clifton’s Brisbane, Level 3, 288 Edward Street, Brisbane. The winners are decided by an international judging panel and the awards evening is on 30 November.