Lake Art Prize Call for Entries

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Applications are now open for the Lake Art Prize 2022

The theme for the prize is ‘The Vessel: contained within and moving between’. In working with the theme, we invite artists to explore literal or lateral translations of the vessel, exploring the notions of, but not limited to the power to hold, containment, passage, memory as well as the vessel in relation to life, water and place.

The Lake Art Prize 2022 has a $25,000 acquisitive prize pool to acquire works for the MAC yapang collection. Finalist’s works will be on view at MAC yapang in the Lake Art Prize 2022 finalist exhibition from 24 September – 11 December 2022. 

MAC yapang sits upon the Awabakal Country in which Awaba, the Lake, is contained. As water is an integral part of our direct landscape it is also an ongoing theme in the exhibition programming and collection strategy.

Important Dates:

  • Applications open 27 June 2022
  • Applications close 22 August 2022
  • Finalists notified and published on the MAC yapang website 29 August 2022
  • Lake Art Prize 2022 finalist exhibition 24 September – 11 December 2022
  • Winner announced 23 September 2022 

How to Submit an Application:

Applications are to be submitted in a two step process, outlined below. Please complete both steps prior to the application closing date to ensure the validity of your entry.

1. Complete the online application form 

Application Form

2. Pay your $35 entry fee. The online payment form will be available soon and artists who have completed their submission will be notified by email. You can also pay with cash or card at the MAC yapang front desk, 9am – 3pm Tuesday – Sunday. Remember to note down your Smartygrants submission number.

Lake Art Prize – Entries Now Open

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Lake Art Prize 2020 – Entries Now Open

The Lake Art Prize is open to all Australian Artists aged 18 years and over.

The Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie is thrilled to announce the Lake Art Prize, a new biennial National Acquisitive Prize for Contemporary Australian Art – valued at $25,000.

Australian artists, aged 18 years and over, are invited to submit works which reflect on the theme ‘Where there is Water’.

There is a total acquisitive prize pool of $25,000 (ex GST), with the funding made available by the generosity and support of Lake Macquarie City Council.

Contending artworks will be across all media and can take any form, including sculpture, painting, drawing, photomedia, installation, sound, and a single piece or multi-piece artwork.

The prize culminates with selected artworks being displayed in a finalist exhibition at MAC. The inaugural Prize Exhibition will take place between 12 December 2020 – 7 February 2021.

The prize includes a People’s Choice Award – valued at $2,000 (ex GST) – a non-acquisitive award to the artwork with the highest number of audience votes over the period of the finalist exhibition.

Voters will also go into the draw to win MAC Packs and Sculpture park café vouchers.

Key Dates

  • Artwork must be completed 23 October 2019 – 23 October, 2020.
  • Entries close (digital submission) at midnight Friday 23 October, 2020.
  • Finalists will be notified on 30 October, 2020.
  • Delivery of finalist exhibition artworks: by 4pm Friday 27 November 2020.
  • Lake Art Prize 2020 Winner will be announced on 12 December, 2020.
  • Finalist Exhibition will be held 12 December 2020 – 7 February 2021.
  • Announcement of The 2020 LAKE prize People’s Choice award: 5 February 2021.

For further information and to enter, go here.