Grace Cossington Smith Art Award 2024: Call for Entries
2024 SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery and Abbotsleigh invite submissions from Australian artists for the Grace Cossington Smith biennial art award for work in any two-dimensional media in response to the theme Making Connections. The award theme is inspired by the work of Abbotsleigh Old Girl and artist Grace Cossington Smith who made connections with her changing world through her drawing and painting. The Awards: $15,000 awarded to the winner (acquisitive). $2,500 awarded to an early-career artist. $2,500 awarded to a local artist from Hornsby and Ku-ring-gai area. For more information and Entry Form Go HERE |
Contemplating Grace; Sydney Printmakers @ Grace Cossington Smith
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.
Contemplating Grace, a Sydney Printmakers exhibition at GCS Gallery, Wahroonga.
CONTEMPLATING GRACE |
3 – 30 September 2022 |
You are warmly invited to join us for the opening event Saturday 3 September 2 – 4pm |
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 |
Accretions/Abrasions at GCS Gallery
Connecting with land and place, with histories, geologies and memories, helps these four artists, two Australian and two New Zealanders, deal with the dilemmas of change. Whether permanent or precarious, personal or political, poetic or polemic the artists solicit form and material to put a stake in the ground. At this moment, they say, “we stand with a view of a place, or this place, capturing the reverberations of ‘now’ as a record and perhaps as a way to step forward”. With an established practice in printmaking and working on paper, the artists develop their ideas in relation to processes of change over time, Accretion and Abrasion.
The works of New Zealand artist Jacqueline Aust chart her navigation of new environments. Each journey begins with marks inscribed in a matrix, a map. Accumulated layers refer to previous experience or notions of home … obscuring and revealing, tracing a path from past to future, with history as a residue to build on.
Sydney based artist Anthea Boesenberg’s works celebrate the age and endurance of an ancient landscape. Multi panelled rust prints, like the landscape they represent, continue to degrade over time.
Kathy Boyle is a New Zealand printmaker whose work examines accretion in geological terms of collision, and subduction. She uses a variety of materials, paper, plaster, metal to express her ideas.
Gary Shinfield is an artist based near Sydney. His works began as a series of woodcuts, and he uses printmaking and painting techniques to create images that become more abstracted and fragmented in response to living in a time of constant and accelerating change.
The artists in this exhibition trace a path through spaces affected by ever-present forces of accretion and abrasion, around us and within.
You are warmly invited to join us for the launch of
Accretions/Abrasions
Artists Anthea Boesenberg and Gary Shinfield will be in the Gallery
SATURDAY 30 July 2-4 pm