Bookish: for Print Council of Australia Members

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From the PCA website:

Calling all PCA Members! 

Enter our new PCA Members Only artists’ book exhibition…

BOOKISH
 

All eligible entries will be accepted, works will feature in an online exhibition and travel to Sydney Contemporary where they will be included in PAPER 21, the much loved ‘fair within a fair’ dedicated to contemporary works on paper. With tens of thousands of visitors expected, this is a special opportunity to have your work included in Australasia’s most prominent art fair! 

Details on how to enter are up on the website HERE

 

Bay of Fires Art Prize Call for Entries

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The  2021 Bay of Fires Art Prize is now open and calling on artists to enter.

This year’s theme is “Island Awakening” and is open to artists in Painting, Sculpture, Textiles, Drawing, Printmaking, Photography and Mixed media. Entries now open for this $20,000 acquisitive art prize.

Entries close on 10th May. For more information and to enter, please visit bayoffireswinterartsfestival.com.au

Traces of Print Day in May: Call for Entries

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CALL FOR ENTRIES: TRACES of Print Day in May

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$7.50 USD

Print Day in May and the California Society of Printmakers announces TRACES of Print Day in May, an online exhibition of prints highlighting artwork made during Print Day in May 2020-2021.

Traces are marks, features, trails and tracks. To trace is to discover, pursue, find and track. The history of humanity can be traced through artists, their marks, pursuits, recordings and questions.

Since 2007, Print Day in May has traced the work of a global community of artists making marks and sharing discoveries worldwide.

Eligibility

Prints created by participants of Print Day in May in 2020 & 2021. Prints need not have been made on Print Day in May but must be connected to (or Traced) to a Print Day in May project or idea. 

All print projects, which include at least one traditional technique, including installation, performance, artist books, video and animation are eligible for submission.

Exhibition Dates

Summer 2021, beginning June 15 to September 15. Zoom reception and artists’ talks TBA.

Meet our Distinguished Jurors

Liz Chalfin, Founder Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence Massachusetts, USA

Raymond Arnold, Founder LARQ, Tasmania, Australia

Yamilys Brito Jorge, Director Taller Experimental de Grafica, Havana, Cuba

There will be three Jurors’ Choice Awards.

Entries and Fees

The entry fee is $7.50 per image USD.

Entries accepted March 20–May 20, 2021

For more information:  printdayinmay.com

Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition 2021

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This year marks the 5th edition of AIMPE 2021.

Both Japanese and International artists are all invited to enter prints to AIMPE ’21. Prizewinning works will be awarded as a result of skilled multi-level jurying.

The purpose of this exhibition is to introduce ‘washi’ ; Japan’s traditional handmade paper (and cultural treasure) to international printmakers. In so doing, we are pleased to provide an opportunity for artists to exhibit their prints and to promote expressionistic fine art printmaking.

Award-winning works will be displayed within Awagami’s Hall of Awa Japanese Handmade Paper Museum. All other prints will be displayed in Awagami’s spacious “Inbe Art Space”. Award-winning prints previous four AIMPE will be displayed at satellite venues in Japan.

All artists are invited to submit works to the AIMPE exhibition and we look forward to receiving a great number of wonderful miniprints. During the AIMPE exhibition, printmaking specialists and selected artists will conduct workshops and print-related symposiums at the exhibition sites.

Go HERE to enter.

Fifty Squared Art Prize Call for Entries

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This Art Prize has a category for Works on Paper.

Entries are now open for the Fifty Squared Art Prize 2021

Brunswick Street Gallery is excited to announce that entries are now open for the Fifty Squared Art Prize 2021. With over $6000 in prizes to be awarded, this art prize is open to all 2D artworks measuring 50x50cm or less. All levels of experience welcome, ALL entries exhibited 25 June – 9 July 2021.

Now in its fourth year, the Fifty Squared Art Prize attracts thousands of artists and art lovers to its showcase exhibition in the heart of Fitzroy, one of Melbourne’s most creative suburbs.

Over $6000 in prizes to be awarded:

First Prize: $4000 Cash Prize (non-acquisitive)

Brunswick Street Gallery Prize: $1500 Solo Exhibition

Works on Paper Prize: Selected by our sponsors.

People’s Choice Award and more.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: MIDNIGHT SUNDAY 16 MAY 2021.

To apply online and full T&C’s, please visit www.brunswickstreetgallery.com.au

2021 Geelong acquisitive print awards: Call for Entries

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Entries for the 2021 Geelong acquisitive print awards are now open. Enter online.

The Geelong acquisitive print awardscontinue a long tradition of prize exhibitions staged by Geelong Gallery and reflect a longstanding commitment to the acquisition and display of prints.

2021 Geelong acquisitive print awards

Saturday 28 August to Sunday 24 October 2021
 

This nationally acclaimed acquisitive prize exhibition features entries from around Australia by established and emerging printmakers representing the diversity of current practice through both traditional printmaking techniques as well as contemporary processes.

Important dates

Entries open Monday 22 March (10.00am)

Entries close Friday 4 June (5.00pm)

Shortlisting June

Notification of selection mid-July

Selected entries to be delivered to the Gallery from Monday 16 to Friday 20 August (between 10.00am and 4.00pm)

 

Exhibition dates Saturday 28 August to Sunday 24 October

Official opening Friday 3 September (invitation only)

Collection of non-acquired works from Tuesday 26 to Friday 29 October (between 10.00am and 4.00pm)

 

 

 

 
 
 

Open Call: International Print Mail Art Project 2021

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International Print Mail Art Project 2021
SEE THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE

In 2021 Grafein* organises an Open Call for its International Print Mail Art Project themed: See things in perspective.

Send us your work by post before 30 April 2021. Work in all printmaking techniques or work combined with printmaking, of postcard format (10×15 cm) and on strong paper (minimal 250 g/m2) can be submitted.

See full regulations below. Please share this Open Call with other printmakers.

 

REGULATIONS

  • Theme of this project is ‘See things in perspective’.
  • The actual posted print is the ‘artwork’.
  • Participation is open and free.
  • Each participant can send one artwork.
  • Size: c.10×15 cm (postcard), paper of 250–300 gr/m2**.
  • Technique and materials: all printmaking techniques are accepted, as well as other media in combination with any printmaking technique.
  • The artwork should be created and signed on one side (the ‘frontside’) of the postcard 
  • The title of the artwork, technique, name of the artist, country and e-mail address should be mentioned on the backside of the postcard in the left half.
  • The postage stamp and address to be sent to (see below) should be on the backside of the postcard in the right half.
  • Postal costs are to be covered by the participant.
  • Deadline to receive the artworks is 30 April 2021.
  • A photo of the artwork (frontside) should be e-mailed to info@grafein.nl in advance of sending it by post
  • The artworks should be sent as they are, i.e. without an envelope to the following address:

Stichting Grafein

Fluitekruid 13

1441 XP Purmerend

The Netherlands

  • Upon arrival the photo of the artwork (frontside) will be uploaded on the Grafein Instagram account with hashtags #printmailart #seethingsinperspective #printmaking2021 #internationalmailart and more and Instagram will be shown on the website of Grafein.
  • Participants can upload photo’s of their artwork on their own social media or in the Facebookgroup Grafeingrafiek.
  • A digital catalogue of all received artworks will be created and published on the website of Grafein
  • The artworks will not be returned, but will be kept in the archives of the Foundation Grafein after finishing of the project.
  • The artworks will be exhibited at one or more venues in 2021 or 2022, address(es) and dates to be confirmed.
 

* Advisory board: Maja Anna Chris, Roos Marthe Thijsen and Ad Stijnman.

** Suggestions:
Windsor & Newton Aquarel block, cold pressed grano Fino, 15 postcards, 300 grams, 10 x 15 cm / 4 x 6 inch
Terschelling block aquarelverfpapier, 20 postcards, 300 grams, 10,5 x 14,8 cm / 4,5 x 5,85 inch
Fabriano Aquarello Postcards, 20 postcards, 300 grams, 105 x 148 mm
You can also make your own postcards.

Disclaimer: Organisers reserve the right to evaluate and exclude from participation in the project, without having to provide reasons of any kind, art works which, in their sole discretion, should prove to be unsuitable, do not follow the regulations,  in case their content is harmful from a moral, ethical or legal point of view or if they are received damaged or dirty.

 

Reimagine Art Prize

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Hornsby Shire Council’s Remagine Art Prize is calling for entries, with $11,000 in total prize money. The three categories include Digital Art – Stills, Mixed Media 3D/Mixed Media 2D and Painting/Drawing/Printmaking.

Remagine Art Prize has a focus on sustainability and the environment. Artists are invited to submit works that can relate to this year’s theme ‘Fast fashion, fast food, fast running out of natural resources’. Held in partnership with the Hornsby Art Society since 2009, Remagine Art Prize promotes the concept of reduce, reuse and recycle.

Entries close on the 17 May 2021

The winners will be announced on 4 June 2021. Remagine Art Prize will be on exhibition at Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, from 4 – 27 June 2021.

For more information go to www.hornsby.nsw.gov.au/remagine

Image: Rick Bull, Taste the Consumer, Digital Art-Still, 2019

Entries are open for the Muswellbrook Art Prize

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Prizes

Painting Prize $50,000 (acquisitive)
Works on Paper Prize $10,000 (acquisitive)
Ceramics Prize $10,000 (acquisitive)
People’s Choice Prize $1,000 (non-acquisitive)

Key Dates

Entries open midnight (AEST) Sunday November 1 2020
Entries close midnight (AEST) Sunday 31 January 2021
Finalists and Adjudicator announced Monday 8 February 2021
Opening Night and announcement of Prize Winners 6.00pm Saturday 6 March 2021
Exhibition 7 March to 2 May 2021

Entry Costs

Painting Prize $45 per entry
Works On Paper $25 per entry
Ceramics Prize $25 per entry

About the Prize

Since 1958, the Muswellbrook Art Prize has grown and evolved and is today one of the richest prizes for painting in regional Australia. Finalists of the 48th Muswellbrook Art Prize in 2021 vie for a total of $71,000 prize money across four prize categories: Painting ($50,000 acquisitive), Works on Paper ($10,000 acquisitive), Ceramics ($10,000 acquisitive) and People’s Choice ($1,000 non-acquisitive).

Astute adjudication of the Muswellbrook Art Prize over the years has yielded an excellent collection of modern and contemporary Australian paintings, works on paper and ceramics from the Post War period of the 20th Century and into the 21st Century, with the winning acquisitive works forming the nucleus of what is now known as the Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection.

Previous winners of the Muswellbrook Art Prize include such key figures as David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Richard Larter and Fred Williams. The Upper Hunter Region is also well represented with a number of local artists being successful in winning the Prize including Peter Atkins, Dale Frank, Lyn Nash and Hanna Kay.

Along with Muswellbrook Shire Council, who since 1958 has acted as sponsor and administrator of the Muswellbrook Art Prize, Bengalla Mining Company has generously sponsored the Prize for the past 25 years, their commitment ensuring the development of the Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection.

For Entry Form and further details, go here.