The mission of the Swan Hill Print and Drawing Awards is to promote excellence in Australian prints and drawings, present an exhibition of contemporary works and continue to build a high-quality collection for Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery.
During the application process you will need to:
| 6 January 2020 | Entry forms open online |
| Midnight 21 June 2020 | Entries close |
| 17 July 2020 | Announcement of finalists |
| 4 September 2020 | Date of launch |
| 4 September 2020 | Announcement of winners |
For more information contact the gallery on (03) 5036 2430.
We are delighted to invite our artist members to participate in our third biennial Print Exchange and celebrate the depth and diversity of contemporary Australian Printmaking. One print will reside in the PCA archive as a survey of contemporary printmaking in 2020.
Image: Roslyn Kean, Night Fall I, 2017, multiple block woodblock print (12 blocks, hand printed with a baren)
There are less than two weeks remaining to enter the 2020 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize!
The prize, for artists whose work considers the natural world, is open to practitioners of any form of visual fine art, with the exception of pure photography. It’s an opportunity for artists to engage with the world around them and use their art to make a statement about the scientific issues facing our planet.
The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize has categories for Open and Emerging Artists with a total prize pool of $45,000. Judges are drawn from across the spectrum of arts and sciences. For the 2020 prize they are:
Thank you to all artists who have already finalised their submissions. For others, you still have time to enter, or to finalise an entry you have saved as a draft in our entry system.
Entries in the 2020 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize will close on Friday 13 March 2020 at 5pm ACDT.
For further information, including full competition rules, please click here.
Best of luck to all entrants.
Fri 24th July 2020
5:00pm – 8:30pm
Fri 24th July 2020: 9:00am
– Sun 23rd August 2020: 4:30pm
Tanks Arts Centre Tank 4, 6 Collins Avenue, Edge Hill, Cairns QLD 4870 AU
Inkmasters Biennial Print Exhibition is an international juried exhibition. It brings together the best printmakers from our region with national and international artists from around the world. The works entered can be any print medium (or combination of media), traditional and contemporary, in a range of formats including 3D works such as artists’ books. 100 prints will be selected from all entries. Prizes will be awarded including an award named for Anna Eglitis, a senior Cairns artist who mentored some of the Far North’s most prolific and important artists. A public talk will be delivered prior to the launch by Sally Foster Curator, International Prints, Drawings and Illustrated Books at the Australian National Gallery.
Entry Fee: AUD$65 (1 work) or AUD$75 (2 works)
Address for mail delivery of selected works: Inkmasters Cairns Inc | PO Box 7792 | Cairns | Qld | Australia 4870
Address for hand delivery: InkMasters Print Workshop | 55 Greenslopes St | Edge Hill | Cairns 4870 | Mon 22 – 26 Jun 20 10am-4pm only
STOPPING TIME: Material Prints 3000 BCE to Now expands on the definition of printmaking by bringing works of art together in thematic clusters, regardless of their period or place of production, collapsing the temporal distances between them and emphasising the dual power of material prints to embed or carry time and to stop time as we engage with them.
The exhibition extends well beyond the usual point of origin for printmaking in the fifteenth century when Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468) invented the movable type printing press, to the perceived decline of printed imagery with the development of digital photography at the end of the twentieth century.
From ancient Mesopotamian images pressed in clay from cylinder seals to contemporary 3-D printing this exhibition positions traditional prints as part of a much larger constellation of printmaking. The timeless encounter with material prints can be described as “aesthetic time” (Keith Moxey Visual Time: The Image in History) but when artists attempt the synthetic transfer of ideas into matter and image it is more a process of collective cultural imagining and technological revelation rather than aestheticism.
Featuring key works of art from the Newcastle Art Gallery collection, STOPPING TIME also includes works of art from the Griffith University Art Museum along with several private collections and recent works of art by contemporary artists including Ali Bezer, Blair Coffey, Ryan Presley and Pamela See.
John COBURN
The 6th Day: God created Man 1977
screenprint on paper, edition 34/50
52.0 x 72.0cm
Purchased with assistance from the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council 1978
Newcastle Art Gallery collection
Courtesy the artist’s estate
Vale Bernhardine Mueller
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Bernhardine Mueller, who passed away in December 2019, is fondly remembered by the printmaking community as an inspirational artist, generous teacher, colleague and dear friend. She had the ability to inspire and nurture creativity in others while pursuing her own artistic journey. Each of her students received individual attention and art colleagues knew she was always available as a friendly, supportive listener. Bernhardine was a friend to so many people in numerous printmaking areas.
Bernhardine established the printmaking studio at Ku Ring Gai Art Centre and Lane Cove Centre House and taught at both for many years. As one of her students at KAC in 1990, I(Karen)was immediately enveloped in the warm, friendly atmosphere she created. Many of those students became lifelong friends of Bernhardine. She was very involved in Lane Cove Art Society winning many awards from there and other competitions for her prints, miniatures and artist books.
Bernhardine also held numerous workshops throughout NSW and Queensland, in particular Gunnedah and Mitchell School of Arts, Bathurst. These workshops introduced students to printmaking and became the foundation for burgeoning art careers. For many years Bernhardine enjoyed a creative partnership with teachers and secondary school students in the art studios at Masada College, one of whom was chosen for HSC Art Express exhibition.
As a long term member of Sydney Printmakers, Bernhardine instigated and participated in many exhibitions. She always welcomed and supported new members. Similarly, Bernhardine was a long time, loved member of The Australian Society of Miniature Art. Her dedication to printmaking endured even as she became increasingly unwell. Bernhardine curated an exhibition at Orange Regional Gallery in 2018 with a group of fellow printmaker colleagues connected by their use of Richard Swinburne’s etching presses. She continued to show her work in Sydney Printmakers and other group shows into 2019.
Bernhardine was a printmakers’ printmaker. Experimenting with the technique, over printing with multiple blocks, reprinting the same plate many times in different colours, collaging, cropping, hand-colouring, for ever on the search for the best result for that particular print. Her wit, humour and purposeful use of mixed metaphors for dramatic effect were very funny. This humour and love of words came out in her miniature etchings, playing on words, sayings and gently poking fun at people, society and art.
Bernhardine shared a love of Australian flora and fauna with me (Denise). This constant source of inspiration, in particular a love of birds, meant we exchanged sightings on Brush Turkey behaviour, Currawong antics, Magpie carols and the amazing character of the White Winged Choughs at her beloved son Michael’s place in the Capertee Valley.
It was an honour to know Bernhardine. Her life was full and creative but she always had time for her many friends. She seemed to know when someone needed encouragement or some words of wisdom. We will miss her but her light will shine on through all those she inspired.
RAVENSWOOD AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S ART PRIZE – WIN $1000 ART SUPPLIES GIFT VOUCHER FOR EARLY SUBMISSION
UPDATE: All emerging and established female artists who submit their entries into the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize by1 March go in the draw to win a $1000 art supplies gift voucher.*
About the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art PrizeThe Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize is the highest value art prize for women, with a $35,000 Professional Artist Prize, an Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000 and the new Indigenous Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000.
Female artists residing in Australia are eligible to enter the Art Prize. All media is accepted and there is no theme – artworks must best reflect the intentions of the artist’s practice.
Entries close at 12pm (EST) on Wednesday 18 March 2020.
Winners of the 2020 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize will be announced at the Opening Night on Friday 29 May 2020. The Exhibition of Finalists will be open from Saturday 30 May to Sunday 14 June 2020, 11am to 4pm.
For more information on the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, visit ravenswoodartprize.com.au or email artprize@ravenswood.nsw.edu.au
*Winner of the $1000 art supplies gift voucher will be drawn at 12pm (EST) on 2 March, 2020. Winner will be notified via email. Terms and conditions apply.
WHAT:
Let all the birds fly: the hybrid print. An exhibition of eleven interstate artists whose work is print based but who have challenged and expanded our understanding of the print in a contemporary context. Printmaking is like a language that continually reinvents itself with artists investigating new meanings through materiality and making.
Questioning long-held traditions of printmaking, guest curators and artists Therese Kenyon and Patricia Wilson-Adams invited nine artists to join them in the exhibition Let all the birds fly: the hybrid print. Here the artists explore the very nature of printmaking and seek to push the boundaries of the medium and fly free from conventions.
Alison Alder (ACT), Jan Davis (NSW), Jan Hogan (Tas), Therese Kenyon (NSW) Ben Rak (NSW), Olga Sankey (SA), Heather Shimmen (Vic), Glen Skien (Qld), Patricia Wilson Adams (NSW), Sandra Winkworth (NSW), Linda Swinfield (NSW)
WHERE: Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 230 High St Maitland, NSW 2320.
mrag.org.au 02 4934 9859
Open Tues – Sunday 10am-5pm.
WHEN: Open from 8 February – 4 May 2020. Launch of Autumn Program 29 Feb. 3pm.