Blacktown City Art Prize

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Entries are now open for the 22/23 Blacktown City Art Prize. 

The Blacktown City Art Prize is a much loved, open-themed annual art prize and exhibition presented at The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre. Now in its 27th year, our Prize has built a reputation for showcasing the creativity of the region and providing emerging and established visual artists the opportunity to exhibit their work.

Artists across Australia are invited to submit work spanning drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photo media and mixed-media.

In 2021 there were 560 entries, with 110 finalists being exhibited at The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre. Finalists’ work will be presented in a major exhibition at The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre and will open our 2023 exhibition program.

Enter here: https://blacktownarts.com.au/bcap/

PRIZES

Blacktown City Art Prize: $15,000 (acquisitive)

Aboriginal Artist Prize: $2,000

Local Artist Prize: $2,000

People’s Choice Prize: $1,000

The Aboriginal Artist Prize is open to finalists who are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background.

Contact: email: artscentre@blacktown.nsw.gov.au 

Janet Parker Smith @ Art Space on the Concourse, Willoughby, in Cities Foretold

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Janet Parker Smith, Tend the Garden, 2022, digital print from collage

Exhibition Dates: 1 September to 2 October 2022

Artists reimagine our urban landscape.

Cities Foretold is a Council curated contemporary art exhibition which reimagines the Chatswood CBD and the future of all cities in general. Part of the Emerge Festival, this exhibition focusses on ideas relating to how future cityscapes will look and function. More than just a physical imprint on a map, cities are places where we converge, live, work and connect. As the world faces unprecedented rates of urban expansion, issues such as Climate Change and social and economic inequalities have been brought into sharp focus. As these challenges arise, we need to create a new vision for the urban landscape and the way in which cities operate. Featuring installation, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, video, technology-based art and temporary public art, this group of artists re-think the role of cities in the future.

The exhibition also includes a community-based program, the Emerge Willoughby Map Project. Join artist Janet Parker-Smith for weekend drop-in workshops to learn about printmaking and to contribute to a bas relief version of the Emerge Willoughby Map.

A Willoughby City Council curated group exhibition, presented in partnership with Emerge Festival 2022.

The exhibition will take place across Art Space on The Concourse and The Concourse Outdoor Area.

ARTISTS: Louise Allerton, Tracey Clement, Kalanjay Dhir, ek.1 (Emma Hicks and Katie Louise Williams), Zachariah Fenn, Sarah Fitzgerald, Karen Lee and Janet Parker-Smith.

This work has also been selected by the Print Council for its 2022 Print Commission.

Contemplating Grace; Sydney Printmakers @ Grace Cossington Smith

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Contemplating Grace: Sydney Printmakers

See this blogpost from the Print Council of Australia, with a Q & A with Karen Ball, and if you are not a member already, take the time to join. You will be rewarded with the wonderful Imprint Magazine, and lots of interesting opportunities and articles.

Sydney Printmakers @ Sydney Contemporary

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Laura Stark, Carolyn Craig, Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger, Andy Totman, Evan Pank, Tina Barahanos, Angela Hayson, Max Gosling, Nathalie Hartog Gautier, and Esther Neate are presenting work at Booth CO2. They’d love to see you there!

Finalists in the Waverley Woollahra Print Prize

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Marta Romer - Another Hot Summer
Another Hot Summer, archival inkjet print, 20 x 25 cm.

Susan Baran and Marta Romer have been selected as finalists in the Waverley Woollahra Print Prize.

Marta has also been selected to exhibit in the Graphica Creativa Triennial Exhibition in Finland at the Jyväskylä Art Museum, 22 October 2022 – 29 January 2023.

Congratulations to Susan and Marta.

Marta Romer,“Borderless” for the Graphica Creativa Triennial in Finland.

Contemplating Grace, a Sydney Printmakers exhibition at GCS Gallery, Wahroonga.

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Image details: George Lo Grasso, The Curve is Constant, 2022, 76cm x 56cm. Grace Cossington Smith The Curve of the Bridge (from Milsons Point), c1927-30 Pastel and pencil on paper 36 x 54.5 cm
CONTEMPLATING GRACE
3 – 30 September 2022
You are warmly invited to join us for the opening event Saturday 3 September 2 – 4pm
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CONTEMPLATING GRACE is a creative response by Sydney Printmakers to the art and life of the iconic Australian artist, Grace Cossington Smith. During its sixty years, Sydney Printmakers has encouraged exploration of innovative and traditional techniques by its members which is analogous with the forward thinking Grace Cossington Smith who is celebrated in this exhibition.    
Artists included: Karen Ball, Tina Barahanos, Susan Baran, Ruth Burgess, Seong Cho, Neilton Clarke, Carolyn Craig, Danielle Creenaune, Barbara Davidson, Olwen Evans Wilson, Salvatore Gerardi, Rew Hanks, Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, Angela Hayson, Roslyn Kean, Carmen Ky, George Lo Grasso, Graham Marchant, Seraphina Martin, Janet Parker-Smith, Ben Rak, Sandi Rigby, Marta Romer, Susan Rushforth, Anna Russell, Denise Scholz-Wulfing, Gary Shinfield, Laura Stark, Wendy Stokes, Thea Weiss, Cheryle Yin Lo and Sharon Zwi