Fiona McMonagle has been shortlisted for the Basil Sellers Art Prize 2016 which tackles the theme of sport and Australian sporting culture. In 2014 Fiona McMonagle won the People's Choice Award for her collection of three large-scale watercolour portraits and an animation video, entitled The Ring. Fiona McMonagle works predominantly in the medium of watercolour, making work that pays tribute to the disaffected and the working class. Her portraits often convey a sense of melancholy and nostalgia, with a unique directness that makes for a compelling encounter between subject and viewer. Her proposed new work, The huddle, which includes audio and sculpture, takes women?s soccer as its subject. Shortlisted artists have eight months to complete their work for the $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize and exhibition, which opens at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, in July 2016.

Fiona McMonagle, Wonky, 2014, ink and watercolour on paper, 182 x 57cm