Naomi Hobson (winner)

Naomi Hobson
First Nations Australian, born 1978; lives and works on the traditional lands of the Southern Kaantju people in Coen, Queensland
Language group: Kaantju/Umpila

Sand dunes on the coast 2022
synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen
Courtesy of the artist, Arthouse Gallery, Warrane/Sydney, and Vivien Anderson Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne

Artist statement:

This work is inspired by feelings towards my natural world. It’s the light of the coastal morning sun shimmering across the ocean and lagoons. It’s the soft angular contours of the western slopes slowly descending to a sea of wetlands. The drama of folding and collapsing mountain ranges with the weather waiting to happen one way or the other. All the while my family and my ancestors received and gave. Mountains, plants, animals and people. We are all one. We are Grounded in Nature.