Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2024: Call for Entries

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Sunshine Coast National Art Prize

The art prize is open to Australian residents working within any 2D medium and new media

The national acquisitive Sunshine Coast National Art Prize is a dynamic visual arts award reflecting outstanding contemporary 2D and new media arts practice in Australia. Now in its eighteenth year, the exhibition presents the remarkable finalist works by artists from across the country.

The artwork awarded with the Major Prize will be acquired into the Sunshine Coast Art Collection. A People’s Choice prize is also decided by way of public vote by exhibition visitors.

Prize details

Entry

Conditions of entry

Call for Entries: Jacaranda Drawing Award

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Enter the 2024 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA)

Artists from across Australia are invited to submit entries for the 2024 JADA.

Grafton Regional Gallery is pleased to announce that entries are open for the 2024 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA), artists from across Australia aged over 18 are invited to submit entries until midnight  30 June 2024.

The JADA is Australia’s richest regional drawing award. This award seeks to encourage and promote innovation and excellence in drawing, and plays a vital role in fostering Australian drawing practice. The JADA provides an opportunity for artists to further their arts career. 

Over the years the JADA has documented the development of contemporary drawing practice in Australia, and has captured how drawing has changed and evolved.  

At the official opening of the exhibition to be held on 27 September 2024, two prizes will be awarded. The acquisitive prize of $35,000 proudly sponsored by the Friends of Grafton Gallery (FoGG), and a non acquisitive prize of $5,000 for an Early Career Artist.

The exhibition of works by selected finalist’s will be on show at Grafton Regional Gallery from 28 September – 24 November 2024.

JADA Drawing Definition – A drawing is primarily driven by mark-making using various mediums. Submissions that include both traditional and/or contemporary approaches to achieve this are eligible for entry.

Please read the Terms and Conditions prior to entry.

Enter the 2024 JADA HERE.

Artist in Residence programme: MPRG

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EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Applications close Friday 22 March, 11:59pm.

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery is currently seeking Expressions of Interest for the 2024 Artist-in-Residence program, at Police Point Shire Park. ⁠⁠The AiR program is open to visual artists, writers, curators, musicians and researchers to undertake a 2- to 6-week residency to engage with the site and the natural and human history of the area. Through the program, MPRG and the Mornington Peninsula Shire aim to support, exhibit and promote ambitious work.⁠⁠The program aims to be a catalyst for immersion, experimentation, connection, collaboration and discourse between participants and with the public. It is an opportunity to widen and strengthen Mornington Peninsula arts communities, support career development of local and emerging artists, and connect Peninsula communities to artists from further afield.⁠⁠Who should apply:⁠We welcome expressions from emerging, mid-career and established artists, based locally, interstate and internationally, in all visual art forms, as well as performance, dance, music, public art, film/video, literature, scientific and/or social research, interdisciplinary arts, architecture and new media. First Nations, LGBTIQA+, culturally and linguistically diverse and artists with disability are encouraged to apply.
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EOI for a show at the PCA Gallery open now

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Artists (individuals and groups) are invited to submit an Expression of Interest to exhibit at the newly established PCA Gallery. Exhibitions to commence from January 2025. 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. Submissions for solo exhibitions, two / three person shows, or larger group shows are all welcome.

Established in 1966 the Print Council of Australia Inc. (PCA) is the peak body representing and connecting our national communities in printmaking and works on paper.

Based in Naarm/Melbourne this national organisation promotes and supports contemporary artists working in print media, and advocates for the appreciation of printmaking, artist books and works on paper as a vibrant field of creative endeavour in the Australian context.

The PCA Gallery is located in Melbourne’s designated Arts Precinct. Close to the CBD, the gallery is a short walk to the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Recital Centre, and the National Gallery of Victoria amongst other cultural destinations.

Enter HERE to Apply.

Edition Five @ Broadhurst Gallery Hazelhurst with Danielle Creenaune, Angela Hayson, and Jenny Robinson

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Surveying the breadth and depth of contemporary print-practice, Edition Five marks More Than Reproduction (MTR)’s fifth anniversary as an artist-run initiative, aligning with International Women’s Day. Demonstrating the malleability of printmaking in both focused and cross-disciplinary practices, the exhibition features recent work by artists from MTR’s monthly artist profile program. Underpinned by parallels and polarities, experimentation is at the nucleus of the exhibition, with artists navigating diverse print methodologies and outputs. In this exhibition, printmaking exists within the depths of the past and the surface of the present; where the reproducible and unique converge and co-exist.

Artists: Danielle Creenaune, Saskia Haalebos, Angela Hayson, Jacky Jacqueline, Isabella Kennedy, Emilee Robinson, Jenny Robinson, Katika Schultz, Brigitta Summers, and Maria Thaddea.

Opening Party: 6pm – 8pm Friday 8 March 2024

Refreshments provided.

RSVP https://events.humanitix.com/opening-party-edition-five

Exhibition Dates: 8 – 26 March 2024Location: Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre

Meet the Artists & Printmaking Demos: 10AM – 1PM Saturday 9 March

Panel Discussion: 11AM – 12PM Sunday 17 March

Angela Hayson in Uneven Terrain at Gallery Lane Cove

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Ildiko Kovacs, Sun Burst, 2009. Image courtesy of the artist and Martin Browne Contemporary.

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UNEVEN TERRAIN: SURVEYING THE LANDSCAPE

28 February – 28 March 2024 

Join us for the opening event, meet the artists and enjoy some refreshments. 

RSVP to the opening event

Friday 8 March

Time: 7:15-9pm

Location: Gallery Lane Cove

Artists: 

Bronwyn Bancroft, Monika Behrens, Judy Cassab, Adrienne Doig, Rosalie Gascoigne, Marisabel Gonzalez, Angela Hayson, Samantha Hobson, Jennifer Keeler-Milne, Maree Kelly, Nicole Kelly, Ildiko Kovacs, Eva Kubos, Sue Lalor, Fiona Lowry, Nurit Ophir, Felixe Rives, Sally Ross, Kate Shaw, Brigitta Summers and Scarlett Stokoe 

Uneven Terrain: Surveying the Landscape presents the works of 8 emerging and mid-career artists alongside significant works from the Macquarie University Art Collection. At its core, the exhibition is about how the selected artists present, or rather represent the landscape within an abstracted and conceptual framework full of symbolism, energy, and mastery of their selected medium. These landscapes present us with a version of our world through not only the artists’ eye, but their lived experience. One that is framed by their gender, heritage, and environment.

Part of Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios suite of activities to mark International Women’s Day, the title, Uneven Terrain highlights the disparity experienced by many female-identifying artists in this country. It’s no secret that a gender pay gap exists in Australia. It’s calculated that women earn less than their male counterparts. What is perhaps a little more surprising and troublesome is that in the visual arts, female artists earn significantly less than the national average. Even though that more than two thirds of art school graduates are women, works by male artists constitute the bulk of artworks within the collections of most cultural institutions.

With this exhibition we aim to showcase the important, exciting, and skilful work being created today as we join voices with other national institutions to attempt to redress disparities experienced in our community. 

This exhibition is part of a two-venue exhibition partnership with Macquarie University Art Gallery. 

Co-curated by Rhonda Davies and Miguel Olmo. 

Femme-Maison: Imagined Boundaries – Women artists from the collection and beyond

at Macquarie University Art Gallery 

26 February−29 April 2024 

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Lea Kannar Lichtenberger at Big Ci Open Day

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RSVP to: rae@bigci.org is essential

Program
11.00: Exhibition opens
11.45: Rae and Yuri Bolotin Introduction
12.00: Lotte Günther Artist Talk
12.30: Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger Artist Talk
1.00 – 2.00: Lunch, bring food to share
2.00: Edita Sabockyté-Skudiene and Alevtina Scepanova Artist Talk
2.30: Anna J. van Stuijvenberg Artist Talk
3.00: Jacques Martens Artist Talk
3.30: Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger Poetry Reading
4.00: Exhibition closes

Check www.bigci.org for more information

Address:
BigCi
82 Hanlons Road North, Bilpin,
NSW, 2758

Lea is presenting work produced during her residency at the Big Ci open day, along with other residents.