'As judges we were both overwhelmed and moved by the mastery of Clare Jaque Vasquez’s painting Silent weapons for quiet conflicts, 2025, which is representative of a body of work that the artist has been creating over the last few years. Jaque Vasquez has the ability to combine breathtaking technique and powerful storytelling in works that convey the importance of connection to family and Country…..’
- Curators Kelly Gellatly, independent curator and Chair of the Sheila Foundation, and Beckett Rozentals, head of Australian art at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Photography courtesy Bayside Gallery. Photo Mark Ashkanasy.
Silent weapons for quiet conflicts, 2025
Acrylic and impasto on stretched canvas, 700cm x 200cm
…. ‘I ask you all when viewing 'Silent weapons for quiet conflicts' get close, see your refection in the shadows. It's an opportunity to step into my world. This work holds space for memory, presence and for the unseen threads that bind us to our place and our matriarchs. In its stillness may you find echoes of your own story. All woven gently into the fibres of history, carried forward in silence’.
- Clare Jaque Vasquez