National Emerging Art Prize
ACB Selects 2024

National Emerging Art Prize co-founder and curator, Amber Creswell Bell, handpicks the most beautiful, eye-catching and collectable works from the 2024 awards program’s talent pool for a very special edition of NEAP’s offshoot exhibition, ACB Selects – at Michael Reid Northern Beaches February 2025.

I was so honoured to be a part of this exhibition with my work ”Grounded”.

In this work, branches of green quinces, freshly plucked from a friend’s city garden, rest upon a cool, marble kitchen bench in the heart of the home. The composition captures the delicate interplay between the young, unripe fruit and the cold, mineral surface, creating a tender contrast of warm vs. cold, hard vs. soft, and old vs. new. Highlighting the quiet beauty and promise of these unripe quinces against the natural materials set in an urban home, the piece delves into the subtle dance of contradictions that permeate our lives. It reflects on our yearning to stay balanced and grounded amid the bustling realities of urban life, and how seeking connection with the natural world and natural materials help us achieve this.