Call for Submissions Tiliqua Tiliqua Printmaking Show 2025 Boundaries

July 6, 2025 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

Submissions close 25 July

Size restriction single entry size 40x40cm or equivalent

Double entry 80x40cm or equivalent

How to make your submission

Start by reading the important information below then click on one of these links to fill out a friendly form. (If you are submitting one larger piece you still use the submission form for one work.)

Submission Form – One Work

Submission Form – Two Works

Important dates

8-10 August
Deliver work/s to Tiliqua Tiliqua, 257 Enmore Rd, Enmore NSW

14 August
Show opens

16 August
Celebratory drinks 4-6pm

1 September
Show closes

1/2 September
Collect any unsold work from Tiliqua Tiliqua

Call For Entries to Lane Cove Art Award

June 30, 2025 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

Lane Cove Art Society invites all Australian artists to enter the prestigious 2025 Lane Cove Art Award. The acquisitive 1st prize is $15,000 (sponsored by Lane Cove Council).

Important dates

Entries close: Sunday 3 August (11:59pm)
Judges’ selection: Monday 4 August – Friday 15 August
Finalists notification: Friday 22 August
Delivery of works: Saturday 14 September 10am-4pm
Opening and awards presentation: Friday 19 September 6pm-8pm
Exhibition open: Wednesday 17 September – Saturday 4 October
Collection of works: Monday 6 October – Tuesday 7 October 9:30am-4:30pm

ENTER via: https://lanecoveartsociety.com.au/the-lane-cove-art-award/

MAC Yapang Art Prize 2025

June 26, 2025 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

Call for entries for inaugural MAC yapang art prize

2025 marks the first year of the MAC yapang Art Prize! This national art prize has a total prize pool of $40,000.

It is open to artists from all disciplines across Australia, with artworks in any medium.

The winning artist of the acquisitive prize will be awarded $30,000, and their

The MAC yapang Art Prize is a new, open acquisitive art prize offered by the Museum of Art and Culture, yapang (MAC yapang) in Lake Macquarie, NSW. It offers a $30,000 cash prize for the winning artwork, which will also be acquired for the museum’s permanent collection.

It is open to artists from all disciplines across Australia, with artworks in any medium.

Key dates

2 June 2025 – Entries open online
30 July 2025 – Entries close at 3pm
18 August 2025 – Finalists announced
11 October 2025 – Delivery of Finalist artwork to MAC yapang (2A First Street, Booragul, NSW)
17 October 2025 – Exhibition opening and award announcement at Museum of Art and Culture, yapang from 6pm
18 October – 7 December 2025 – MAC yapang Art Prize exhibition on view

Read the MAC yapang Art Prize 2025 terms and conditions

Call out to exhibit with the Print Council Australia

June 19, 2025 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

Come and exhibit at the PCA!

Call for Expressions of Interest to exhibit in the gallery. Individuals and groups / collectives / studios are encouraged to apply. Proposals may be inter-disciplinary but must contain elements of contemporary printmaking. This may be in the form of artists’ books, established or experimental forms of print and more broadly paper-based art. With the addition of our gallery space 2, there are even more opportunities for exhibitors!

All the details of how to register your EOI are on the website here.

Expressions now close July 31st, 2025.

M.E.S. Golden Paper Sale

June 18, 2025 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

Melbourne Etching Supplies

UP to 45% off 1-30 June 2025

Due to the large amount of orders received at this time, NO orders over the phone or
through M.E.S .website can be made.

Orders MUST be placed by email and using the Paper Sale Order Form: mes@mes.net.au

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0554/8674/2660/files/MES_2025_June_Golden_Paper_Sale.pdf?v=1748578273

Gary Shinfield At Hawkesbury Regional Gallery

June 3, 2025 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

Gary Shinfield After the Fires 3, 2020, unique state relief print on tapa cloth, 78 x 118cm

Group Show

BURNT INTO MEMORY

7 June – 17 August 2025

Opening Night: 6 – 8pm Friday 6 June

In the summer of 2019-2020 communities across Australia experienced some of the worst bushfires in living memory. Known as the Black Summer Bushfires, the impact of these collective fire events was catastrophic on individuals and communities.

Burnt into Memory explores these events within the context of reflection, healing, resilience and forward momentum.

Artists: Sarah Allely and Bill Code, Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler, Katherine Boland, Penelope Cain, Cathy Franzi, Jody Graham, Anna Glynn, Freya Jobbins, Laura Jones, Gary Shinfield, Leanne Tobin, Leanne Watson, Julie Williams, Freedom Wilson

For more information on programs and to make a booking visit:

hawkesburygallery.eventbrite.com

Gary Shinfield is featured in the latest edition of Rochford Street Review Number 42, an online poetry and small press site. https://rochfordstreetreview.com/. Issue 42

Ro Murray At Articulate And The State Library

May 27, 2025 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

Ro Murray, Conglomerate I,II (detail), lino print on pianola rolls, 2025

LOCUS/LOCI

A place, a locus, as it exists in space, time and experience

GROUP SHOW
Mandy Burgess Sarah Fitzgerald Jan Handel Ro Murray Lisa Woolfe

7 – 29 June 2025

Articulate Project Space

Opening hours 11am – 5pm Fri – Sun, 497 Parramatta Road Leichhardt

Opening drinks 3 – 5pm Saturday June 7

Artist Talks 2pm June 22

Closing drinks 3 – 5pm Sunday 29

The State Library of NSW

Ro Murray, SCROLL VI lino print on pianola roll, 2024

SCROLL VI was selected for the Artists Book Awards Manly Library 2025, and has been acquired by the State Library of NSW. The work included excerpts from William Hovell’s journal on the overland journey from Lake George to Port Phillip in 1824, with Hamilton Hume and six convicts.