Athlete-turned artist takes out lucrative Australian landscape art prize depicting floods

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A Sydney-based athlete turned artist has taken out a lucrative Australian landscape art prize. Chosen from a field of 500 entrants, Sophie Cape's work was created within the landscape of last year's floods in New South Wales and she's described the $100,000 prize as a life raft.

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00:00When Sophie Cape paints a landscape, she dives into it. Not the task, but the actual landscape.

00:09It is very physical and I have managed to break bones making art. I don't know how.

00:14She unfurls canvas in the bush, across rivers. She's even dragged one to Everest Base Camp.

00:21Thunder Shifts the Shivering Sands, which has just won a lucrative Tasmanian Art Prize,

00:27was created in the aftermath of flooding in New South Wales.

00:31Rust was just everywhere, like all the, just water had collected in everything.

00:36And I just found all this stuff and I went, oh, that's really disgusting.

00:39I might throw that on a canvas.

00:41The Hadley's Art Prize attracted more than 500 entries, whittled down to 29 finalists.

00:48While judges said Cape's piece issued a particularly beautiful invitation into landscape,

00:54all of the finalists brought powerful stories of place.

00:58The way that they see the world, not just us to see the world in different ways.

01:01So each of the works submitted have merit in their own right.

01:05Among them, 1980s art icon Ken Doan.

01:09Hobart artist Valerie Sparks using her CT scans of garden rocks.

01:15And residency prize winner Denise Lambie for a landscape born out of tea bags.

01:21Meticulously and delicately unwrapped hundreds and hundreds of tea bags after having tea.

01:27And coded these based on the gradient of their colour.

01:32And then created this abstract landscape.

01:35And the judges don't get all the say.

01:37There's also a People's Choice Award.

01:39All you have to do is come in and choose your favourite.

01:42For Cape, a former elite downhill ski racer and track cyclist,

01:47the $100,000 prize is already partly spent.

01:51Operate on my knees, operate on my dog's knees and operate on my car.

01:55So that I can get back out to the bush.

01:58The exhibition in Hobart runs until September 21.

02:02Oh StakeSel

02:03The exhibition in Hobart clubs

02:05一些 photos of the

02:05Hopefully there are still big

02:13kids or anal grey issues.

02:15The concept that I've been doing with Sydney

02:17is a receptionist.

02:18But I see more officers installing.

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