The Alice Prize: Call for Entries

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The Alice Prize

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.

Alice Springs Art Foundation

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.

Important Dates

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

Call for Entries: 2024 Burwood Art Prize.

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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:

  • Painting
  • Printmaking
  • Drawing
  • Photography
  • Still digital artworks
  • Moving digital artworks (with a maximum duration of 10mins)

Entries close 5PM Friday 8 March 2024

To find out more and enter please see HERE:

Muswellbrook Art Prize Call for Entries

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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.

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Entries close February 9th 2024.

Firestation Print Studio Artist Book Prize Call for Entries

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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. 

Thea Weiss’ Award Winning Film at Randwick Ritz

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Lotte, 100 years – Remembering and Celebrating

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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

Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize Call for Entries

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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.

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2024 Ravenswood Australian 
Women’s Art Prize

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

Janet Parker Smith @ Ridge Street Window Gallery

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Janet Parker-Smith Wicked Garden  |  24 November 2023 – 8 January 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

Book your spot

Visit the Ridge Street Window Gallery, 43 Ridge Street, North Sydney 7 days per week until 10pm.

Sydney Printmakers 2023 at Gallery Lane Cove

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Jacqui Driver, ‘Caught in the Story II’, Lithography. Image courtesy of the artist.

SYDNEY PRINT MAKERS 2023
8 November – 2 December
Opening event: Wednesday 15 November 6pm – 8pm.
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Group exhibition by nationally and internationally acclaimed members of the Sydney Printmakers’ collective.


Sydney Printmakers explore all traditional and contemporary forms of printmaking and have built up a reputation for excellence in the field. The collective aims to develop a dialogue between their practices and the wider audience by promoting the diversity of printmaking as a versatile, adaptive and engaging medium.
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Public Program
Artist’s Talk: 11am-12pm Saturday 2nd December 2023.
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Join the Sydney Printmakers as they talk about their practice, techniques and themes explored in their exhibition.


Upper level, 164 Longueville Road, Lane Cove NSW 2066 phone: 02 9428 4898
email: info@gallerylanecove.com.au

www.gallerylanecove.com.au
Open Tue – Fri 10:00am – 4:30pm & Sat 10:00am – 2:30pm

North Sydney Art Prize: Call for Entries

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The North Sydney Art Prize is a major biennial art event showcasing some of the best in contemporary art by emerging, mid-career and established artists from across Australia. Artists are invited to submit entries for the exhibition which will be held in The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability in Waverton NSW from 11 May – 2 June 2024. This unique site enables broad participation and accommodates the inclusion of all mediums including 2D, 3D, installation-based works and site specific work.

Finalist artworks will be displayed in the underground tunnels and chambers and other locations across the site.

The curatorial theme encourages artists to consider the overarching principles of the exhibition site at The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability. The Coal Loader Centre opened in 2011 as a major regional community resource and was transformed from an old industrial site to a place where you can be inspired by best-practice sustainable technology, community gardens, native bush nurseries and regenerated parklands. The Coal Loader showcases innovation and serves as a community hub for Council’s extensive range of environmental and sustainability programs. Located within the bushland of Balls Head Reserve and adjacent to historic Berrys Bay, The Coal Loader is a site of both remarkable industrial heritage and environmental sustainability.

Key Dates

  • Call for entries launches: Monday 9 October 2023
  • Call for entries close: Thursday 30 November 2023, 5.00pm
  • Finalists announced: Friday 19 January 2024
  • Exhibition: Saturday 11 May to Sunday 2 June 2024
  • Artwork delivery and installation: By appointment 1-3 May 2024 and 6-10 May 2024
  • Artwork collection: By appointment 3-5 June 2024

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Introducing Our New Members: Mark Rowden

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Mark Rowden, Suni Satin Gaze, Linocut

Please welcome Mark Rowden, one of our four new members.

Mark Rowden’s works describe modern moments and memories, with a subtle reflection of the past. Rowden finds inspiration in moments of social interaction, isolation and beauty.

As a master printer he constructs works through the traditional process of relief printmaking, breaking down the visual information to a graphic form, creating shadows and spaces which the viewer can move through, and sharing symbols and stories of living in a modern society.

Mark studied at The National Art School, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2000. Rowden worked at Whaling Road studios, one of Australia’s oldest print workshops, for many years. While working there he printed for a number of renowned Australian artists.

He has exhibited widely in Sydney in many group and solo shows. He was invited to be a part of the International Print Biennale in Brazil twice. Rowden’s work is held in numerous private and commercial collections, including Broken Hill and Wagga Wagga Regional Galleries.

Recent exhibitions include The Latterns Pavilion activation 2023, Secret Sitter 2023 – Goodspace and Prints4Ukarine – CBD Gallery 2023. Art Prizes – Gippsland Print Prize – Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sunshine Coast Art Prize – Caloundra Regional Gallery, Remagine, Hornsby Art Gallery and Whitewall project art prize.

He has an upcoming solo show in Colorado, USA, December 2023 and a Duo show at Incinerator Gallery in 2024.

Mark Rowden, Reverie, 2023, linoprint, 40 x 40cm.