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three-channel installation, 4k with sound, 17:00min
Winner of the Ellen Jose Art Award 2022
The judging panel for the Joondalup Art Prize included WA Art Gallery artistic director Ian Strange, Jana Braddock, curator of Goolugatup Heathcote, Max Delany, Artistic Director & CEO, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), and 2019 IAP Alumni Paul Kaptein. The judges praised the films thoughtful engagement with archival and family histories. They commended how the work provided strong and evocative reflection upon displacement as well as the histories and realities of refugees and asylum seekers fleeing persecution. As for the Ellen José Art Award, an exhibition in honour of Torres Strait Elder, Ellen José (1951-2017) pioneer in Australia’s urban Indigenous art movement, radical activist and social justice campaigner – the judges, Max Delany (ACCA) and Professor Marcia Langton AM, Associate Provost at the University of Melbourne commented, “…Eshraghian-Haakansson’s installation translates the violence of fundamentalism, the experience of homelessness, and the complexities of geography and history into rich emotional landscapes… As was the case in the work of Ellen José, both artists combine rich poetry with powerful politics.”