Our Art Prizes #2

Magnetic Field

The winner of the $2000 Artist Prize was Michelle Czech, a design student at RMIT University, for her work titled ‘Magnetic Field’, a hand-made transfer printing on canvas depicting brightly coloured ‘flowers’ inspired by magnetic ferro-fluid.  Michelle brought her canvas (measuring 121 cm by 61 cm) to our announcement at the 5th World Conference of Science Journalists in Melbourne last week.  I really like Michelle’s work because it depicts the ferro-fluids form so accurately, but does it in such a delightful way.  To see ferro-fluid in action, see this YouTube video (one of many).