Aaron Perkins Finalist in Omnia Art Prize | 13.05.23 — Jan Manton | Contemporary Australian and International Art

Artworks: (Right) Aaron Perkins, *Termini (Rockwell Subtractive)*, 2022, Gesso, acrylic, pencil and oil on linen, 152.4 x 77.8 cm (Left) Aaron Perkins, *Termini (Rockwell Subtractive)*, 2022, Gesso, acrylic, pencil and oil on linen, 152.4 x 77.8 cm

Aaron Perkins has been selected as a finalist for the Omnia Art Prize

Congratulations to Aaron Perkins, whose works Termini (Rockwell Subtractive), 2022 and Termini (Rockwell Subtractive), 2022 were selected for the Omnia Art Prize.

The Omnia Art Prize is one of Australia’s premier art awards and exhibitions for contemporary art. The annual exhibition is open to established and emerging Australian contemporary artists, and showcases over 200 artworks including paintings, drawings, photography and sculptures.

Perkin’s works were selected by the 2023 guest judge, Dr Victoria Lynn from TarraWarra Museum of Art.

The Omnia Art Prize is on exhibition at St Kevin’s College Toorak from 19 – 22 May 2023.

Aaron Perkins is an Australian artist, whose conceptual practice is based in painting and playfully engages a scepticism of language to explore the relationship between text and image.

He has been a finalist in the Redland Art Prize, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, the Moreton Bay Region Art Prize and the Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting, has exhibited throughout south-east Queensland, and has written for In Residence and STABLE ARIs.

Perkins recently received a Doctorate of Philosophy from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, for his research into the potential for a philosophically defined and criterial notion of fiction to function within the medium of painting.

Perkin’s is also an avid word nerd who does the cryptic crossword each day, collects typographic errors in texts, and who is running out of walls to line with bookcases.