ANU School of Art lecturer Raquel Ormella has won the 2012 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award for her Australian flag-inspired artwork, Poetic Possibility.

Ms Ormella was presented with the award, which included $40,000 prize money, at an event at the Campbelltown Arts Centre to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the prize earlier this month.
 
Ms Ormella said she was pleased to be recognised by the South West Sydney region’s major cultural venue.
 
“The Campbelltown Arts Centre commissions and delivers innovative, high-quality contemporary cultural programs for the growing communities of greater Sydney and beyond,” she said. The Centre’s multi‐disciplinary approach brings together visual arts, performance, live art, music, dance and new media practice and it provides opportunities for communities to engage with contemporary ideas and issues. I am really pleased that this work has found a home in their collection and will be brought into conversation with other art forms as well as contemporary political, Indigenous and colonial art.