Remote Artist in Residency Calling for Artists

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on Australia’s cultural life – and specifically on artists, many of whom are facing unexpected income loss.

In response to this, and the current environment, The City of Greater Dandenong is offering a remote artist in residency to artists affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Remote Artist in Residency (rAiR) program will offer a paid opportunity for artist/s to develop their artistic practice, from their home or designated studio space. Outcomes from the will contribute to a group exhibition within Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens, alongside a digital exhibition.

Artists working in all mediums are invited to apply, including, but not limited to: visual artists, sculptors, painters, illustrators; writers, musicians or other performance artists, sound and or multimedia artists, video, installation or performance artists, craft or textile artists.

Three artists will be selected. Applications close on Sunday 19 April.

For more information, visit greaterdandenong.com/artsopportunities

Image: Artist Brooke Hyrons working in the Heritage Hill studio, 2019.

Swan Hill 2020 Print and Drawing Award

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Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards

Celebrating printmaking and drawing, this long running prize will see some of the finest contemporary works entered from across Australia.

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.

How to enter

During the application process you will need to:

  • Upload a high resolution image of your artwork (file types accepted jpg, tiff. Max upload 5 MB)
  • Supply as statement about your artwork (max 50 words)
  • Pay a $45 non-refundable handling fee

Enter now!

Important dates

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.

Print Council of Australia Print Exchange

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2020 PRINT EXCHANGE

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.

Apply for the 2020 Print Exchange  

Image: Roslyn Kean, Night Fall I, 2017, multiple block woodblock print (12 blocks, hand printed with a baren)

The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize

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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:

  • Dr David Gaimster, Chief Executive, Auckland War Memorial Museum.
  • Alexie Glass-Kantor, Executive Director, Artspace Sydney.
  • Professor Anton van den Hengel, Director, Australian Institute for Machine Learning.
  • Brian Oldman, Director, South Australian Museum.

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.

 

InkFest 2020

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INKMASTERS INTERNATIONAL PRINT EXHIBITION AT INKFEST 2020

OPENING NIGHT

Fri 24th July 2020
5:00pm – 8:30pm

DATE

Fri 24th July 2020: 9:00am
– Sun 23rd August 2020: 4:30pm

InkFest
International exhibition

Tanks Arts Centre Tank 4, 6 Collins Avenue, Edge Hill, Cairns QLD 4870 AU

Enter Here

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.

Significant Dates:

  • Entries Close Friday 8 May 2020 
  • Selected artists notified Monday 18 May 2020
  • Selected works delivered by Friday 26 June 2020
  • Exhibition dates 24 July – 23 August 2020
  • Works not sold returned from: 28 August 2020

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                                             

Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize

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29 January 2020

 

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 by
1 March go in the draw to win a $1000 art supplies gift voucher.* 

 

About the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
The 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.

 

Call for Entries: 2020 National Works on Paper

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2020 National Works on Paper
An MPRG exhibitionThis year as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, MPRG is holding our prestigious biennial National Works on Paper (NWOP) acquisitive exhibition.
With a long and rich history, NWOP attracts leading contemporary artists from across Australia working in the fields of drawing, printmaking, painting, digital prints and paper sculpture.

NWOP supports and promotes contemporary Australian artists working on or with paper with up to $50,000 acquisitions and awards (the winner of the Major Acquisitive Award receives $15,000).

Recent winners of the National Works on Paper include James Tylor and Laura Wills, Daniel O’Shane, Jess Johnson, Laith McGregor, Richard Lewer, Danie Mellor, Gareth Sansom, Paul Boston, Lisa Roet and eX de Medici.  

Up to $50,000 acquisitions and awards – The winner of the Major Acquisitive Award receives $15,000 (includes the purchase price).

Entries close:             19 April 2020

HOW TO ENTER

All entries must be submitted online. No hard copy entries will be accepted.

Artists can only submit one work. An entry will consist of:

– a completed entry form
– supporting material: digital image, artist’s statement, CV
– $30 non-refundable administration fee

JUDGING PANEL

The judging panel for the 2020 National Works on Paper is:

Louise Tegart, Director, Art Gallery of Ballarat
Gina Mobayed, Director, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
Danny Lacy, Senior Curator, MPRG 

IMPORTANT DATES

Entries close: 5pm,Sunday 19 April

Finalists announced: Tuesday 12 May

Official opening and announcement of award and acquisitions:Thursday 24 September

Exhibition closes: Sunday 22 November
ENTER NOW
 

priNT

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Here’s an opportunity to exhibit a body of work or a large print in the Northern Territory. There’s not much time to enter your work, however.

From Mats Unden:

You are invited to participate in priNT2020 – a printmaking exhibition at Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin 13th – 28th March 2020.

The aim of the show is to highlight the important role printmaking techniques play in many visual artists practices. The aim is to create a nationally (and internationally) recognised annual print exhibition, while generating support towards establishing an open access print workshop in the Top End.

We are looking for big prints, suites, or bodies of work, as well as artist books and other ‘print’ works. Interdisciplinary and experimental works are encouraged to showcase the variety and diversity of the art-form, as long as the core technique is printmaking.

NCCA takes no commission on sales, but please consider donating a portion of the sale towards the aims and goals of priNT.

How to enter:

  • Send an email requesting a copy of the entry form to Mats(see address below). You will need to email the completed form back to Mats before March 1st.
  • Please make sure your works are at NCCA in Parap by 6th March, and a copy of the form is enclosed.
  • There is no entry fee, but all freight and insurance costs are covered by you.

 Works can be framed or unframed. Unframed works will be pinned or hanged using magnets. Unfortunately at this point there are no funds for freight or artist fees. If your work is for sale NCCA will direct any enquires to you, and no commission will be taken.

Postal Address:

NCCA PO Box 82 Parap NT 0840 or NCCA Vimy Lane Parap NT 0820

Please contact Mats for further information on mats.unden@hotmail.com.

 

 

Water: Call for Artists

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Call for Artists
International Collaboration and Exhibitions

Water
Works on Paper

Water is a collaboration between Artery Co-operative, Melbourne (Artery) and Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venice, Italy (Scuola di Grafica).

There will be two exhibitions in 2020. The project will explore water in all its complexity through works on paper. All works submitted will be exhibited at Artery’s ‘Project Space’ in Northcote, Melbourne. A selection of works will also be exhibited at the Scuola di Grafica in Venice. A portion of the funds raised from the exhibitions will be donated to create opportunities for artists through Artery and the Scuola di Grafica.

To express your interest in participating, please complete the registration form, HERE, by no later than 20 December 2019.
Exhibition guidelines and conditions can be found HERE.

  
   acoop.com.au                 scuolagrafica.it/en

Image: Helen Kocis Edwards, Skater girl, bilby and the winged lion, drypoint etching on giclee print

On Paper 2020

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ON PAPER contest 2020
6th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL PRINTMAKING CONTEST

1ST PRIZE 1000€
2ND PRIZE 300€
DEADLINE April 1st 2020
FEE 26€ (16€ early bird discount:
February 1st  2020)
The SHORTLISTED artists will exhibit in 
Tinta Invisible, (Barcelona, Spain) in July 2020

The contest is open to anyone. Application is online at www.onpapercontest.com

Rules available in ENGLISH, CATALAN and SPANISH