We’d like to remind you about the upcoming deadline for submitting 1 or 2 books for the Crescendo25 Artist Book Awards, $5,000 for the winning entry and $1,000 for a work made by an artist living in the Illawarra area.
Clifton School of Arts (CSA) presents Crescendo 2025 Artist Book Award, the curatorial
initiative of four recognised book artists and CSA members, Liz Jeneid, Judy Bourke,
Kathryn Orton and Lucia Parrella. This new art award will bring together works by leading
and emerging artist book makers from across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. It will
build on the success of Prelude Artists’ Books Now, an exhibition which showcased 52
unique artists books at Clifton in November 2023. Enthusiastically received by over 370
people, Prelude Artists’ Books Now enjoyed national media coverage, introducing new
audiences to the contemporary art form of artist’s books, and generating interest in a
two-day workshop facilitated by the curators in June 2024. Crescendo 2025 Artist Book
Award is the culmination of a three-year journey, celebrating the limitless possibility of books.
Crescendo 2025 Timeline
April 1 Applications open email entries to crescendobooks2025@gmail.com
August 1 Applications close
August 14 Selected artists notified
October 1 Selected work(s) delivered before this date to: Crescendo 2025,
C/- Judy Bourke, 10 Mount Gilead Road, Thirroul, 2515, NSW, Australia
November 14 Exhibition opens
November 30 Exhibition closes
December 2 Unsold work posted back to artists.
The hand printed book in a purple solander box with 24 images is a play on the concept of Jutaku or Tiny Houses in Japan. Congratulations, Roz.
Entries close Friday 14 March 2025 at 5:00pm AEST.
Celebrating Cultural Narratives and Perspectives
The Burwood Art Prize invites artists from across Sydney to engage with the theme I AM HERE, exploring the importance of diverse cultural stories and community identity.
The Burwood Art Prize offers a platform for artists to delve into the significance of personal and shared cultural experiences, celebrating the many voices that shape contemporary multicultural Australia.
The theme I AM HERE encourages artists to reflect on and express their unique perspectives, using their work to build awareness, inspire celebration, and evoke joy. We invite artists to interpret this statement as a call to explore how art can spark meaningful dialogues, connecting audiences with the vibrant experiences that enrich our collective understanding.
We welcome you to be part of this vibrant celebration of culture, where diverse expressions come together to deepen our sense of appreciation for the stories that make us who we are.
Remagine Art Prize is an environmental art prize dedicated to bringing awareness of environmental challenges such as waste and consumption. Held in partnership with the Hornsby Art Society since 2009, Remagine Art Prize is delivered and sponsored by Hornsby Shire Council. This year’s theme ‘RE:THINK TO RE:PURPOSE’ refers to the decisions we make each day about how much waste we create, and how we can reuse materials to help save our precious natural resources. The extraction of raw materials, production, transport, and consumption directly affects our environment, including native wildlife, aquatic species, and birdlife. Artists are asked to submit works that relate to this year’s theme.
This non-acquisitive prize is open to Australian residents aged 18 years and over, with total prizemoney of $11,000. Open to painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, photography, digital stills, and mixed media.
This year’s judges are curator Rhonda Davis and artist Marina DeBris.
| Call for entries open | 20 January 2025 |
| Entries close | 1 May 2025 |
| Winner announced | 13 June 2025 |
| Exhibition | 13 June – 29 June 2025 |
The Remagine Art Prize finalists’ exhibition will be held at Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, 25 Edgeworth David Avenue, Hornsby.
| Jenny Robinson has a very busy year ahead of her. Here are some of the events on offer……. |
 2025 Studio Events, Workshops and Master Classes February 16: Celebrate our 1 year anniversary at our Open Studio. Join us for a glass of wine/beer and check out what our small but perfectly formed open access printmaking studio has to offer artists here in Sydney’s Inner West. February 22-23: Our first OPEN PRESS weekend We are introducing our first Open Print Weekend for artists who want to extend their print practice with the time and space to explore printing on a large scale. April 5-6: MASSIVE MONOTYPES Weekend Come and make huge monotypes with us on our massive American French tool etching press. This 2-day workshop is designed for artists who want to make large unique painterly prints on paper. 26-30 May: 5-day Collagraph on Cardboard Master-Class Workshop with Sarah Amos Sarah returns to the Print Studio to again conduct her extremely popular collagraph technique. Workshop full, waiting list only. June 28-29: 2 day Japanese paper backing and seaming workshop Jenny will again teach the traditional Japanese methods of chine colle, and seaming works together using traditionally prepared jin shofu (wheatpaste). and introducing… Juy 4-6: Advanced Photogravure Master Class with Silvi Glattauer This 3-part workshop (including 2 Zoom sessions) is designed to help you create a cohesive body of work using advanced photogravure techniques, with a focus on larger-scale prints, multi-plate printing, and incorporating colour through methods like Chine Collé or À la Poupeé. See full details on our website. |
| Copyright © 2024 Jenny Robinson Prints, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Jenny Robinson Prints 60-66 Vine Street Darlington, NSW 2008 Australia |
Printmakers from throughout Australia are being invited to respond to the theme of what HABITAT means to them.
HABITAT: being the place or environment where we as humans, plants, or animals naturally are located or have found ourselves residing in.
Explore the beauty of these precious eco systems, suburban, industrial, and other built landscapes. Where are there points of intersection, separation, and union? We have been purposefully open in our explanation of the theme, so you have enormous freedom to drive your own imaginative interpretation. Be bold in your response. You can respond playfully, thoughtfully, or radically through the mediums of printmaking.
All finalist works will be eligible for selection in the $500 People’s Choice Award.
Entries are due midnight 7 April 2025
If you have any questions or require further information, please contact Monika McInerney, Artistic Director & Co-CEO, moni@belcoarts.com.au
Events + Dates:
2pm, Saturday 22 February: Exhibition Opening
Please join us in celebrating the opening for Visible but intangible: A print exchange portfolio from 2-4pm, Saturday 13 July. The exhibition will be opened by master printer Basil Hall, who has been worked extensively as an artist and collaborative printer with artists since 1983 and leads Basil Hall Editions.
Visible but intangible: a print exchange portfolio is on display 22 February – 29 March
Office and Gallery hours:
Tuesday – Saturday 9.30am – 5.00pm
email: info@megalo.org
telephone: 02 6232 6041
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Jacqui Driver is part of a group exhibition opening tomorrow evening at Studio 25B in Darlinghurst. Two of her children are also involved! There will be performances on the 19th December at 6pm.
Members of Sydney Printmakers selected for the Burnie Print Prize 2025 include Anthea Boesenberg, Carolyn Craig, Jacqui Driver, Roslyn Kean, Janet Parker Smith and Gary Shinfield. New members Melissa Harvey and Lois Waters have also been selected.
Congratulations to all!
