SOYA09 Shortlists Announced!
2/09/2009
Drum-roll, please - we're about to reveal the top ten entries in each of SOYA's seven categories - these are the artists and creatives now in the running to win $10,000 in cash and flights and a mentorship with a leader in their field.
The extraordinary quality of this year’s short list reflects SOYA’s position as Australia’s leading grants program for emerging creative talent, and SOYA’s role in exposing and supporting some of the best artists, musicians, designers and filmmakers Australia has to offer.
Since the inception of the Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards in 2004, SOYA has been instrumental in fostering the careers of Australia’s top innovative and inspiring young talent including Geoffrey J Finch of cult womenswear label Antipodium; Danielle Freakley, the uniquely compelling artist who spent over three years communicating only in quotes; and My Disco, the dynamic three piece music collaboration of Ben Andrews, Liam Andrews and Rohan Rebeiro.
Without further ado, here are the names you've been waiting for:
FASHION
Jade Sarita Arnott for Arnsdorf
Kristy Barber for Kuwaii
Gary Bigeni
Alexi Freeman
Clea Garrick & Nathan Price for Limedrop
Claire Greaves for Maise Label
Gabrielle Thompson and Shannon Gunn for Tom Gunn
Vicki Lee for myPetsQuare, sQ, mYmYheYheY
Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales for Romance Was Born
Ingrid Verner for TV
FILM
Britt Arthur
Genevieve Bailey
Sam Bryant
Kasimir Burgess
Matthew Chuang
Michael Hill
Anna Jeffries
Alyssa McClelland
Gracie Otto
Goran Stolevski
INDUSTRIAL & OBJECT DESIGN
Tomek Archer for Tomahawk Studios
Kristian Aus for Autumn Products
Jenni Baxter
Kirsten Black for Halo Headphones
Emma Elizabeth Coffey for Emma Elizabeth Designs
Amanda Dziedzic
Tom Fereday
Peta Kruger
Milenka Osen and Georgie Swift for TMOD
Brad Stebbing
MUSIC
Art vs Science
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!
Oh Mercy
Seekae
Sherlock's Daughter
Songs
Sugar Army
Talons
The Scientists of Modern Music
Tom Ugly
PHOTOGRAPHY
Daniel Boud
Jessie Boylan
Matt Caplin
Megan Cullen
Sean Fennessy
Nirrimi Hakanson
Thom Kerr
Cybele Malinowski
Briony Ridley
George Voulgaropoulos
VISUAL ARTS
Rebecca Baumann
Jacqueline Bradley
Michaela Gleave
Agatha Gothe-Snape
Ash Keating
Eugenia Lim
Kenzee Patterson
Simon Pericich
Ivan Ruhle for Bababa International
Kit Webster
VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS
Andrew Apostola for Portable
Anna Blandford for Able and Game
Daniel Dittmar for Happenstance
Emily Hunt & Raquel Welch for DUKE Magazine
Yiying Lu
Sumita Maharaj
Andrew Moffitt for MOFFITT.MOFFITT.
TinNguyen and Edward Cutting for tin&ed
Mel Stringer
Eveline Tarunadjaja
Congratulations to the SOYA shortlisted entrants for 2009!
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