Sydney-based artist Sarah Contos has won Australia's richest prize for young contemporary artists.
Contos has taken out the Art Gallery of South Australia's inaugural Ramsay Art Prize, along with $100,000, for her work, Sarah Contos Presents: The Long Kiss Goodbye.
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Gallery director Nick Mitzevich says the piece is like a "textile time-capsule" and is the most ambitious work from Perth-born Contos to date.
The gallery's curator of Contemporary Art Leigh Robb was among the judges to have unanimously appreciated the work.
"Contos' 21st century quilt spills over, and, like a new epic history tableaux, celebrates power women in all their glory with fireworks, sequins and PVC," he said.
The Ramsay Art Prize was launched earlier this year for artists under 40 and is supported by the James and Diana Ramsay Foundation.
Contos' work has been acquired by the gallery's collection and the piece, along with those from another 20 finalists, will be on display at the gallery from Saturday to late August.
AAP