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Artist Daniel Kotsimbos sees the city as a giant instrument that is played by all who interact with it. Everyone contributes to these sounds in some way, we all play into this pattern, he says.
Kotsimbos and Catherine Clover are the joint winners of the inaugural Fivex Art Prize: Billboard Art Reimagined and will share $30,000 in prize money.
Catherine Clover and Daniel Kotsimbos
Credit:Jason South
In a year when many of our realities revolved around an online existence, it seems an appropriate prize: the first for an artwork designed for a digital billboard.
Their works will be displayed on billboards opposite Flinders Street Station, on the corner of Elizabeth and Flinders Streets, until the end of January. All six finalists’ work will be on show, the four runners-up - Kent Morris, Deborah Kelly, Phi Do and Magdalene Carmen - each won $1000. They were selected from 520 entries by photographers, graphic designers, street artists illustrators and architects ar