This prize is offered to the student in Civil Engineering Design at Sydney University who has demonstrated an outstanding ability to express emotional response to art and to articulate self-expression through art.
The award is judged on assignments submitted in a short course titled ‘Art in Civil Engineering’ given by Harry Partridge of Partridge Partners to students in their final year Design Course CIVL 4903. These assignments consist of painting an A3 canvas of an emotion, concept or idea, and a written personal response to a work viewed during an afternoon excursion to the Art Gallery of NSW.
The prize is of a value of $500 plus a certificate presented prior to the Graduation ceremony.
Below are some of the many wonderful paintings by these students, the vast majority of whom have never studied art, and show the latent talent often residing in even the most mathematical hearts.
Softness and harmony are depicted in this Monet-style work “to calm the stresses of being an engineer”, says Afida Md Yusof
Wilson Tan has painted “feelings of calm and peace” in this view of the top of the world.
After ten years of study and more study, Shiwei Feng just wants to float free.
This deeply philosophical painting showing a blind king and his tormented subjects is full of existential angst and meaning. Tom Morris
This surreal and metaphysical study of detachment and indifference is Alisa Barrel’s moody and wonderful response.
“The chaotic hot colours represent a fiery unknown” as Juno Gray moves from his studies into an new future in the workforce.