Seraphina Martin visited Paris in October of this year just in time for the opening of the Bo Halbirk Print Workshop. It’s open to anyone wanting open access or to attend a class. Seraphina caught up with printmaker Laura Osborne from Victoria who was printing a copper plate. They speak English. Something for members looking for a reason to visit Paris to consider ?
The UniSQ Biennial Art Award is an exciting addition to Australia’s vibrant art scene. This award will celebrate and champion contemporary Australian art, providing a platform for talented artists to showcase their work and gain recognition.
With a generous prize pool of $40,000, the new award will offer a significant opportunity for artists to receive financial support, gain exposure and connect with fellow creatives.
The UniSQ Biennial Art Award is open to Australian citizens and permanent residents. We welcome artists from diverse backgrounds and encourage submissions from various artistic disciplines. Whether you specialise in painting, sculpture, photography, digital art, or any other medium, we invite you to participate.
To enter the UniSQ Biennial Art Award, please visit our website to find the terms and conditions, and carefully follow the submission guidelines provided. The deadline for submissions is 19 February 2024.
If you have any questions or require further information, contact us HERE.
For more news, please visit HERE
Sydney Printmakers member Neilton Clarke is currently undertaking a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris until the new year, on what is his fifth sojourn, having first gone there from 1988 to 1989 on an AGNSW Moya Dyring Scholarship. Hosting artists, musicians, writers, academics and the like from around the globe, the Cité was co-founded in 1965 by husband-&-wife team Felix and Simone Brunau, the latter of whom, as its secretary general, president, and honorary president, passed away in 2021 at the age of 95. Spread over two Paris locales – the Marais site in the 4th arrondissement, and the Montmartre site in the 18th arrondissement – its individual live-in studios are supplemented by a range of facilities including an auditorium, rehearsal studios, and collective studios for both printmaking and ceramics. The Café des Arts offers residents a place to take a break and meet fellow artists.
Goto https://www.citedesartsparis.net for the website.
The Alice Prize is an acquisitive national contemporary art prize, welcoming entries from around Australia, in any medium or theme.
Significant among regional art prizes, The Alice Prize contributes to one of the largest regional collections of Australian art, with works by leading artists from across its over 50 year history.
Coordinated by the Alice Springs Art Foundation, The Alice Prize is judged by an expert selection panel and judge of national standing, with national exposure for exhibiting artists and the opportunity to show in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, the cultural heart of Australia.
Celebrating 50 years
The Alice Prize and the Alice Springs Art Foundation were set up in 1970 to bring contemporary art from across Australia to Alice Springs for the benefit of its isolated, arts-hungry residents. The first exhibition was held on 3 October 1970.
The Alice Prize 2024
Entries Open: Now Open
Entries Close: January 31, 2024
Exhibition Dates: Friday March 22 – May 12. 2024
Official Opening and Announcement of Winner
Friday March 22 at 6.00 pm. Araluen Arts Centre
Entries for the 2024 Burwood Art Prize are now open!
The Burwood Art Prize invites artists across Sydney to engage, consider and reflect upon one or more of the following themes: Visibility, Ritual, Legacy. Each theme can be examined and negotiated in a literal, abstract, formal and informal sense.
Artists are encouraged to see these themes as lenses through which their art can be perceived by different people in different ways. A portal and invitation for 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 personal practice, experience, surroundings or environment.
Open to all Sydney based artists, the Burwood Art Prize featues a prize pool of $14,000 and accepts the following mediums of artwork:
Entries close 5PM Friday 8 March 2024
To find out more and enter please see HERE:
The Muswellbrook Art Prize began in 1958 and has grown to be one of the richest prizes in regional Australia with a prize pool of $70,000 across 3 sections: Painting, Works on Paper and Ceramics all acquisitive.
Sections
– Painting ($50,000 acquisitive)
– Works on Paper ($10,000 acquisitive)
– Ceramics ($10,000 acquisitive)
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 close to three decades, their commitment ensures the development of the Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection.
Entries close February 9th 2024.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
FPS Members 2024 Artists Book Prize
Prizes Categories
1. Craftsmanship
2. Experimentation with form
3. Incorporation of text
Selected winning artists win the opportunity to exhibit together with FPS in 2025.
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Artist Book Exhibition
22nd May – 15th June.
Coinciding with the Art Book Fair Held at the NGV each year our Biennial Artist Book Prize Show is back again.
Lotte, 100 years – Remembering and Celebrating
Price$18 AUD + BF Get tickets
Thu 14th Dec 2023, 6:45 pm – 8:00 pm
Randwick Ritz
45 St Pauls St, Randwick NSW 2031
Join us and share a glass of wine as we celebrate what would have been Lotte’s 100th birthday. To honour her memory, the Weiss family is hosting a screening of the film My Two Lives, which explores the remarkable story of Lotte, her survival, tenacity, and resilience, despite undergoing incredible trauma. We will also hear of the progress on the legacy projects that the family has dedicated in her honour.
Lotte Weiss was a Holocaust survivor. She never forgot the horrors of her three years of internment at Auschwitz and Birkenau. Yet it is her immense life force that propelled her through the torture and devastation that enveloped her. Her inherent integrity and morality remained steadfast. It was her capacity for goodness, kindness, forgiveness, and love which never faltered throughout the misery and beatings she endured, to give her the strength and the will to survive. This is her story interpreted by artist Thea Weiss
The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize is an annual acquisitive prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established women artists in Australia. It is the highest value professional artist prize for women in Australia.
There are three prize categories – the Professional Artist Prize of $35,000, the Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000 and the Indigenous Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000.
There is also a People’s Choice Award of $2,000 plus an art pack valued at $500.
Artists are asked to enter an artwork that best reflects their art practice – there is no theme.
Artwork judging is overseen by Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize Patron and acclaimed artist, Jennifer Turpin.
Entries open 14 November 2023
Entries close 14 February 2024
Finalists announced 26 March 2024
Opening Night 10 May 2024
Exhibition 11 – 26 May 2024
The work in this installation reconfigures found materials from our urban landscape and repurposes prints from the artists collection from over the past 30 years. Look and you might see recognisable materials from everyday life that have been transformed into new creatures, objects and forms.
Using different art forms including collage, printmaking, digital print, ceramics, knitting and textiles combined with chattels from the everyday, these materials come together to create an artwork known as the ‘Wicked Garden’. Showing a flight of imagination it looks at ideas around our changing environment, friendships and adapting to new surroundings.
About Janet Parker-Smith
Janet Parker-Smith has a cross disciplinary process using Printmedia, sculpture and collage to create her work. She has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for over 30 years. Janet is well known as a local arts worker and also is a sessional teacher at the National Art School and Sydney Collage of the Arts.
Artist talks
Janet Parker-Smith In Conversation Saturday 9 December 11am
Visit the Ridge Street Window Gallery, 43 Ridge Street, North Sydney 7 days per week until 10pm.