Michaye Boulter has been announced as a finalist in Hadley's Art Prize for her beautiful painting Atmospheres.
A stunning multipaneled work, Boulter offers alternating views of the Tasmanian landscape and coast, particularly Bruny Island. Sky, sea and the spaces in-between the real are captured in the work in gentle contemplation offering clarity and an enigma.
I paint to elucidate a certain feeling or atmosphere – describing the space between becoming and dissolving, intimacy and distance, presence and absence. Recomposing familiar landscapes into descriptions of the slow transition of time, one moment to the next, overlapping and turning back on itself. The strange mixed—up continuum of life, an everchanging, incomplete collection of atmospheres. - Michaye Boulter
Hadley’s Orient Hotel has a long history with art starting with art-loving landlords in the late 1800s. The Hadley’s Art Prize, Hobart contributes to the art community, celebrates excellence in contemporary landscape art, promotes cultural tourism in Tasmania, and restores art to the historic walls of Hadley’s Orient Hotel through a landscape prize like early landlord Howard Hadley won in 1895. Judged by a panel of art specialists, the prize is open to Australian artists over the age of eighteen working in two-dimensional media.
The exhibition of finalists will be on display at Hadley's Orient Hotel, Hobart from 29 August - 21 September 2025
