Call for Entries: Burwood Art Prize

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Visibility, Ritual and Legacy

The Burwood Art Prize invites artists across Sydney to engage, consider and reflect upon one or more of the following themes; Visibility, Ritual and Legacy. Each of these words can be examined and negotiated in a literal, abstract, formal and informal sense.

We encourage you to see these words as lenses through which your art can be perceived by different people in different ways; a portal and invitation to our audiences to explore broader ideas around identity, community, culture and personal experience. Artists are also invited to consider how each of these themes may connect or disconnect with their practice, experience, surroundings or environment.

For 2023, the Art Prize has been opened up to a series of new categories, and will accept works in the following mediums:

•Digital artworks (moving or still)
•Photography
•Painting
•Printmaking
•Drawing

We are also thrilled to announce that for the first time the Prize will be open to all Sydney-based artists who are Australian citizens or permanent residents. We are asking artists to engage with one or more of the following themes guiding the prize: Visibility, Ritual and Legacy.

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‘Fair Play’, an exhibition curated by Ben Rak at Manly Art Gallery and Museum.

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There is a myth that sport and art are natural enemies, as exemplified by the ongoing debate about the allocation of public funding by governments at all levels in Australia. Fair Play seeks to bridge the gap between these two forms of cultural production and to demonstrate that they both empower us to express ourselves physically, emotionally and intellectually, enabling us to connect and communicate with each other around the world — across borders, cultures, languages, and generations. 

Rew Hanks and Ben Rak have work in the show.

Friday, 9 December 2022 – 10:00am to Sunday, 26 February 2023 – 5:00pm at Manly Art Gallery and Museum.

All are invited to the Exhibition Opening Fri 9 Dec, 6 – 8pm.

RSVP via MAG&M Eventbrite(Opens in a new window)

Artists in Conversation Sat 10 Dec, 3 – 4pm. Free event. RSVP via MAG&M Eventbrite(Opens in a new window)

One on One: Amber Boardman Sun 15 Jan, 2 – 4pm. Free event. Book via email

Clay Character: Billy Bain Wed 18 Jan, 10am – 12pm. Book via MAG&M Eventbrite(Opens in a new window)

The Playful Eye: Michael Garbutt Mon 6 Feb, 10am – 1pm. Free event, bookings required via MAG&M Eventbrite(Opens in a new window)

Experimental Animation Workshop: Kellie O’Dempsey Thu 23 Feb, 6 – 9pm. Book via MAG&M Eventbrite

Lea Kannar Lichtenberger has had some successes.

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Lea Kannar Lichtenberger, Mangrove Series V – Beyond the Light, Drawing, 2022

Lea Kannar Lichtenberger has won the Greenway Art Prize with her work Mangrove Series V – Beyond the Light.

The GreenWay Art Prize celebrates the environment, creativity & community spirit of the Inner West and profiles the work of outstanding new and emerging artists as well as established

She is also a finalist in the Heysen Landscape Prize in SA with another drawing of mangroves, Mangrove Series IV – Into the Light.

Lea Kannar Lichtenberger, Mangrove Series IV – Into the Light.

Cantabria Mini Print Collection in Lublin, Poland

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Curated by Andrea Juan & Gabriel Penedo Diego, the Cantabria Mini Print Collection in Lublin Exhibition includes two artists from Sydney Printmakers, Laura Stark and Neilton Clarke. Running October 20th to November 20th at the UMCS University Gallery, Lublin, Poland, the exhibition is drawn from the collection held by the Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center, Santander, Spain.

Susan Baran and Baldessin Print Studio @ Australian Galleries, Melbourne.

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Susan Baran, Alhambra Palace, 2020, Photopolymer Intaglio, Hand Colouring.

BALDESSIN – THE LEGACY – TWO EXHIBITIONS: George Baldessin & Baldessin Studio

Exhibition Dates: 25 October – 12 November 2022
28 & 35 Derby Street Collingwood VIC 3066
Open 7 days 10am to 6pm


George Baldessin Exhibition

This highly anticipated exhibition features a collection of George Baldessin’s iconic prints, as well as a significant selection of works that have never been exhibited before, including drawings, paintings and sculpture.

George Baldessin

The Baldessin Studio

This vibrant group exhibition presents works created at the Baldessin Studio by 29 contemporary artists, both established and emerging, working across a wide range of styles, genres and techniques.

Susan Baran is one of the selected artists.


For more details or images contact:
media@australiangalleries.com.au australiangalleries.com.au

Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2023

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The Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art (NPCA) is awarded every two years and is open to emerging and established artists working in any medium across Australia.

The competition includes four monetary prizes:

  • Open Prize: $20,000 
  • Local Prize: $10,000 
  • Mayor’s Award: $500
  • People’s Choice Award: $500 cash prize sponsored by Montsalvat

The Open Prize and the Local Prize are acquisitive. This means that the winning artworks become part of the Nillumbik Shire Art Collection.

The submitted artworks will be shortlisted by judges:

  • Jane Trengove – Artist and disability advocate
  • Steph Noah – Curator, Banyule City Council
  • Spiro Panigirakis – Head of Fine Art Department, Monash University

The winners will then be selected by a separate judging panel including:

  • Hannah Presley – Senior Curator, Museums and Collections, University of Melbourne
  • Melissa Keys – Senior Curator, Heide Museum of Modern Art
  • Jason Smith – Director and CEO, Geelong Gallery

How to enter NPCA 2023

Entries for the 2023 NPCA Prize responding to the theme ‘Future‘ are now open.

Please read the Conditions of Entry(PDF, 881KB).

The NPCA is presented in association with Montsalvat.

Entries close on 14 November 2022. Enter here

Anthea Boesenberg, Ben Rak and others at WayOut: with Print, Kandos

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Ben Rak, Skins, Single Channel Video, 2020.

WAYOUT: WITH PRINT

Curated by Linda Swinfield
WAYOUT Gallery
71 Angus Avenue, Kandos
22 October 2022 – 11 December 2022

Participating Artists:

Anthea Boesenberg

Therese Kenyon

Jan Melville

Ben Rak

Linda Swinfield

Freedom Wilson

Patricia Wilson-Adams

Sandra Winkworth

WayOut: with Print evolved from a previous hybrid printmaking exhibition at Maitland Regional Art Gallery in 2020 that in its own way was perceived as “way out”.

In WayOut: with Print, this group of eight artists investigates notions of contemporary printmaking. The artists’ work selected here is by no means the complete breadth of the practice, it is merely a sprinkle.

Each of the artists were selected because of their multi-disciplinary studio practices, with print as well as other media and each artist has a background within the tradition of editioning prints and the ability to work within the canon of those traditions. What is important within WayOut: with Print is that the artists also expand, stretch and disrupt how we traditionally see printmaking. This is a break-away group pushing the boundaries of printmaking, experi- menting and questioning those studio-based traditions. They are all freeing themselves from the traditions within the canon of art that sees print as an adjunct and extension of other art forms.

Graham Marchant Solo Exhibition @ Artsite Contemporary Gallery, Camperdown.

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The Mist That Follows Rain
Graham Marchant Solo Exhibition

“On my morning walks and through observing the neighbouring gardens from my studio, I became enthralled with how the mist that followed the rain enveloped everything, blanketing the landscape, and dissolving space. The opaque skies concealed and at times revealed a transformed view of the exiting terrain.”

The Mist That Follows Rain is a marked turning point in Graham Marchant’s work since relocating from Balmain in the Inner West to Leura in the Blue Mountains in 2021. Along with the dramatic change in landscape, Graham noticed the vast difference in climactic conditions and the effect they had on the immediate environment – the backdrop for inspiration.

“The studio still lives, and my drawings are a continuation of my preoccupation with detail and playing with the juxtaposition of flora, decorative material, quilts and calligraphy. And my fixation with poppies and orchids remains a subject matter that allows me to explore the changing nuances of light, transparency and texture.”

The Mist That Follows Rain is a solo exhibition by Graham Marchant, showing at Artsite Galleries from 08 October until 30 October 2022.

The Mist That Follows Rain is a solo exhibition by Graham Marchant, showing at Artsite from 08 October until 30 October 2022.

RSVP for Exhibition Opening on 9 October 2022 (3pm – 5pm)