Adelaide Fringe Award Winners 2013

As the sun sets on another successful festival, the 2013 Fringe Awards were awarded to the best shows, artists and venues at this year’s Adelaide Fringe.

80 arts industry judges spent the past 4 weeks seeing hundreds of Fringe shows from all genres and visiting over a hundred art exhibitions.

Adelaide Fringe Director Greg Clarke congratulated all of the winners and nominees saying that the plethora of amazing shows this year had made all of the judge’s jobs incredibly difficult.

Mr. Clarke said “This year’s Adelaide Fringe saw a wealth of talent unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before, from both returning Fringe artists and those performing and exhibiting in the Fringe for the first time, there were so many worthy winners.”

The coveted BankSA Pick of the Fringe Award ended up being given to two circus productions, Circolombia andLimbo.

“We really want to thank all those who contribute to the prizes given as part of the awards, particularly to BankSA who contribute so much and to Underbelly who make it possible for one show to go over to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe,” Mr. Clarke said.

Artists receive cash prizes totaling $25,000 thanks to the generous support of Principal Partner BankSA, Adelaide Fringe, Underbelly, Erin Svigos Award, Adelaide Festival Centre and the Melbourne Fringe. Please see below for the full list of awards and winners.

ADELAIDE FRINGE AWARD WINNERS 2013

BankSA Pick of the Fringe Award

Circolombia – Arts Projects Australia
BankSA Pick of the Fringe Award
Limbo – Strut & Fret, Underbelly Productions & Southbank Centre
BankSA TalkFringe Award
3 – MindBlown Productions
BankSA Best Cabaret
Tommy Bradson: Sweet Sixteen or The Birthday Party Massacre – Better Bradley Productions
BankSA Best Circus & Physical Theatre
Fright or Flight – The Birdcage & 3 is a Crowd
BankSA Best Comedy
Kitty Flanagan: Hello Kitty Flanagan – A-List Entertainment
BankSA Best Comedy – Emerging
Wolf Creek: The Musical – SPUR
BankSA Best Dance
Life in Miniature – Anything Is Valid Dance Theatre
BankSA Best Music
Idea of North – The Idea of North
BankSA Best Theatre Performer
Lucy Hopkins – Le Foulard
BankSA Best Theatre Production
The Book of Loco – Alirio Zavarce & Sasha Zahra in association w/ Loose Canon Art Services
BankSA Best Presentation for Children
Squaring the Wheel – Jens Altheimer
BankSA Best Visual Art & Design
TAR – Tony Kearney
BankSA Best Venue
Birdwood Exhibition Centre
Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE: Development Award
The Book of Loco – Alirio Zavarce & Sasha Zahra in association w/ Loose Canon Art Services
Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art
Jess Dare – The Nature of Memory
Underbelly Edinburgh Award
Breaker – Solid Svid Theatre Company
Tour Ready Award – supported by Melbourne Fringe
Homage to Uncertainty – Emma Beech
John Chattaway Innovation Award
Leo – Arts Projects Australia
The Adelaide Critics Circle Best in Fringe Award
Glory Dazed – Holden Street Theatre Co Inc. & Second Shot Productions

For more information, visit: www.adelaidefringe.com.au for details

Image: Glory Dazed (photo by Alex Brenner)

Paul McDermott - The Dark Garden

For the first time Paul McDermott will display his artwork to the public in a free three-part exhibition, The Dark Garden, as part of the 2013 Adelaide Fringe Festival.

Paul’s work is comprised of various mediums including paintings, prints, banners, soundscapes and films with more than 100 pieces being displayed across three immersive environments.

Being shown in the basement of an abandoned building now turned into Fringe venue, The Tuxedo Cat, Paul’s dark and mysterious creatures will fill its void, taking audiences on an adventure of light, scale and sound.

Audiences will move through the space by the glow of their own torch light, with a unique soundscape accompanying each environment created by Mat Blackwell (comedy writer and Good News Week artist) and Stu Hunter (Musical Director of Paul Sings).

This exhibition has been a very personal journey for Paul, so personal that he is not prepared to part with his work and has taken over 20 years to show the public this side of his creativity.

The works were created in a very small room under his home in Sydney, a room which will be entirely recreated as part of the exhibition, enabling audiences to take a glimpse into his creative processes and dark imaginings.

The Dark Gardens - is a nouveau-colonial vision of a post-apocalypic future: a bleak black Eden, ravaged by avarice, diseased, destroyed and, yet, thriving. In The Dark Gardens mega-cute mega-fauna battle and consume other absurd hybridised lusus naturae.

Emile Kirst - is a boy who attends a new school. On his first day he notices he’s different from the other students. They are all Monsters. Emile is at a school for monsters. How incredibly cool! At first he’s frightened by the other students but he finds, over the course of the day, even monsters can be the best of friends.

Short Films:
The Girl Who Swallowed Bees - is the story of a confused and upset child who only sees one way out of her emotional turmoil. She settles on bizarre method to hasten her demise. Instead nature conspires to affect her in a life-altering and ultimately, a life-affirming way.

 

The Scree - five strange friends set out on an adventure in a tiny boat. They discover a mysterious island, an island filled with bizarre vegetation and deadly creatures. Are they doomed in this alien environment? Or will they survive the island and its most frightening resident - The terrifying Scree?

 

The Dark Garden
Exhibition: continues to 17 March 2013
Venue: The Tuxedo Cat
Address: 199 North Terrace, Adelaide
Image: courtesy of Paul McDermott

For more information, visit: www.adelaidefringe.com.au for details.