Congratulations to D Harding, winner of the National Works on Paper 2024 Major Acquisitive Award. D Harding’s work (Potentially) enough bodypaint for three dancers, 2023, was chosen from 70 shortlisted works, out of 1,049 entries. More information is available here.
Judges’ comments: ‘The judges were impressed with the simplicity of this work, the simplicity which holds so much cultural weight though it is portable, physically light, barely there. Its silence speaks volumes. Harding has presented a very clever use of paper, making it active, a vessel, a carrier of Country, Culture, ritual, people. Three makes a crowd, a community and the temporal aspect of this work is mesmerising. Even away from Country you can carry it, literally, with you and reactivate your community.'