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Call for Entries: National Still Life Award 2025

May 6, 2025 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

STILL: National Still Life Award 2025

STILL: National Still Life Award is Yarrila Arts and Museum’s national biennial acquisitive art award. Established in 2017, STILL aims to recognise excellence, diversity and innovation in contemporary still life practice while broadening the interpretation of this enduring genre.

STILL: National Still Life Award is open to artists at all stages of their practice and working across all mediums, including but not limited to painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video and installation. 

STILL 2025 has a prize pool of $36,000.

Awards

STILL: National Still Life Award: $30,000 (acquisitive) 

Coffs Coast Artist Award: $5,000

People’s Choice Award: $1,000

Award winners will be selected by a panel of judges.

Key dates

Applications open 1 April, 9am

Entries close 6 July 

Finalists announced 18 July

Artwork deliveries 11-15 August

Exhibition opens Saturday 6 September

Exhibition closes Sunday 9 November

Key information

Artist must be an Australian Resident
Artists may submit up to 3 entries.

Download the Conditions of Entry here

ENTER HERE

Do you have a question? Email us at still@chcc.nsw.gov.au

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Firestation Print Studio Artist Book Prize Call for Entries

December 1, 2023 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

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.
DOWNLOAD ENTRY FORM

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. 

Filed Under: Art Prize, Artists Books, Call for Entries Tagged With: Artists Books, Biennial, call for entries, Firestation Print Studio

Print Council of Australia’s Biennial Print Exchange

June 16, 2022 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

Following the success of the PCA Print Exchanges in 2016, 2018, and 2020, we are pleased to invite our printmaker members to participate once again in our third biennial Print Exchange and celebrate the depth and diversity of contemporary Australian Printmaking.

This is a PCA member only opportunity to create a new edition of prints to be swapped with other members. Your print will be accepted into the PCA Archive as a snapshot of contemporary printmaking in 2022, and included in an online exhibition and sale showcasing your work to the PCA audience of approximately 14,000.

Please note you must be a member of the Print Council of Australia to participate in the project. There are many benefits to being a member including a subscription to the quarterly Imprint magazine. To view membership options visit our membership page.

  • THEME – No specific theme, we encourage you to make what you do best.
  • PAPER SIZE – strictly 26 x 20 cm. Images can be printed edge to edge or on any part of the paper. Please use archival printmaking paper. Prints to be interleaved with tissue or glassine paper (CUT TO EXACT SAME SIZE AS PRINT)
  • TECHNIQUES – All forms of original fine art printmaking techniques, including digital techniques. 2D only.
  • EDITION SIZE – Each artist will create an edition of 12 prints signed and numbered (1/12, 2/12, 3/12 etc). Each print needs the artist’s name, title, and medium written in pencil on the back.
  • DEADLINES –
    Applications open: 16 December 2021
    Works to arrive: by 30 September 2022
    Distribution: early December 2022 (TBC)

Go HERE for further information and for the entry form.

Filed Under: Print Council of Australia, Print Exchange Tagged With: Biennial, Print Council of Australia, Print exchange

Surface impressions 2022, Call for Entries.

January 28, 2022 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

The LUX Center for the Arts, Nebraska,  in cooperation with Constellation Studios, will present ‘Surface Impressions,’ an ambitious exhibition focusing on hand-produced relief prints from woodblock, linoleum cut, wood engraving, and mixed media relief prints.

Now – Open for Submissions 
March 18, 2022 – Deadline for submissions
June 3th – August 26th, 2022 Exhibition dates
April 1, 2022 – Artists Notified
June 1-4, 2022 – Juror events, opening, award selection
Summer 2022 – Events, workshops, steamroller printing

Eligible works: Original fine art prints from woodblocks, wood engravings, linoleum, and alternative relief surfaces; prints are to be printed on paper; created in 2019 to 2022. Only unframed works, please.

All national and international artists (18 years and older) are eligible to enter 5 works

This biennial of relief prints here in the center of America will showcase artists from around the country and abroad, all selected from an open call for entries. The works on exhibition focus on the role of the relief print as a means of cultural critique and exploration of this ancient but newly invigorated discipline as practiced and defined by today’s artists.Full details and enter HERE

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Inkmasters Call for Entries 2021

December 31, 2020 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

InkMasters Cairns invites entries for InkMasters Print Exhibition 2021. The exhibition, part of our biennial festival, InkFest, was postponed from 2020 due to the pandemic. New exhibition dates are 25June – 25 July 2021 at Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns. Entries close 9 April 2021.
 
Artists are invited to submit up to 2 works for preselection. Please visit our website www.inkmasterscairns.com.au/exhibitions    Click on Inkmasters Print Exhibition 2021 for Conditions of Entry and Entry Form.
 

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Geelong Print Awards

August 27, 2019 by Anthea Boesenberg Leave a Comment

36 works by 37 leading and emerging Australian artists have been shortlisted for the 2019 Geelong acquisitive print awards.
Showcasing diverse contemporary Australian printmaking practice, the acquisitive awards and biennial exhibition will feature works by:
Alison Alder, Rosalind Atkins, GW Bot, Susanna Castleden, Tony Coleing, Christine Courcier-Jones, Marian Crawford, Phil Day, Marieke Dench, Clive Dickson, Dianne Fogwell, Graham Fransella, David Frazer, Silvi Glattauer, Jackie Gorring, Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Rew Hanks, Kyoko Imazu, Locust Jones, Martin King, Barbie Kjar, Steve Lopes, Tim Maguire, Marion Manifold, Jordan Marani, Laith McGregor, Glenn Morgan, Stieg Persson, Brian Robinson, Teho Ropeyarn, Jonas Ropponen, John Ryrie, Heather Shimmen, Ruth Stanton, Anne Starling, and Joel Wolter.
The exhibition of selected prints will be held at the Geelong Gallery from 20 September to 24 November 2019.

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Print Prizes Tagged With: Anne Starling, Biennial, Few Hanks, Geelong Acquisitive Print Prize, Geelong., Victoria

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