Independent curator and writer Lara Strongman has announced that Ann Shelton is the winner of the 2010 Anthony Harper Award for Contemporary Art and the prize of $10,000. Her work Wintering, after a van der Velden study, Otira Gorge was selected by Strongman who commented that it was "a powerful, haunting image, whose economy of expression belies the conceptual richness of the work."
Image: Ann Shelton, Wintering, after a van der Velden study, Otira Gorge, diptych, C-type photographs, 1214 x 1520 each
