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At the present time Transport: Contemporary Print Media in Tasmania, curated by Douglas McManus for the Salamanca Arts Centre (SAC), is open at the Burnie Regional Art Gallery. For those members who missed this exhibition at SAC in May, it is on until 9 March. The Place Where Three Dreams Cross, curated by Bryony Nainby for the Plimsoll Gallery is in the last phases of it’s tour, opening at Mosman Art Gallery in Sydney on 10 March. Having been to seven venues over five states, with many noting its popularity amongst their audiences, this exhibition has provided good exposure for the curator and the WA, NT and Tasmanian artists involved. For the last 12 months Bryony has been the Gallery Program & Curatorial Officer at the Gippsland Regional Gallery in Sale Victoria. She has recently commenced in the position of Exhibitions Manager at the State Library of Queensland. Exhibition Development Fund (EDF) If you are considering developing an exhibition, and would like to apply for funds to travel and research the early development of an exhibition please call us at CAST to discuss your proposal. Tasmanian Emerging Curator Fund (TECF)As you will remember from our last newsletter the State’s public gallery sector were successful in an application to Arts Tasmania for funding to support more curatorial activity in Tasmania. CAST will be calling for applications for the new Tasmanian Emerging Curator Fund in June. In preparation for those who are interested in trying their hand at curating or co-ordinating exhibitions, it is recommended that you participate in the Curatorial Workshop and Forum to be held in April. (See Philip’s notes for information.) The Fund will award a curators’ fee ($1000 each) to 5 emerging curators in Tasmania who are proposing to develop an exhibition through any of the public galleries in Tasmania. Participating galleries are: Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Devonport Art Gallery, Design Centre, Tasmania, Academy Gallery, Plimsoll Gallery, CAST, Carnegie Gallery, Salamanca Art Centre, Inflight and Arts Alive. We would be pleased to provide further information on this fantastic opportunity.
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Promotion & Communication Officer The Moorilla Scholarship is an annual patronage of $12,500 for a developing Tasmanian artist of any age, working in any medium (excluding performing arts such as dance or theatre, writing, film & video).
return to top of newsletter Applications close 23 February 2007 Material Girl 2007 – Call for Entries Theme > Island Life: Through Women's Eyes Entries close 23 February 2007 Click here for further information (including conditions of entry). artists@work is a program of four residencies linking Tasmanian arts practitioners with Tasmanian businesses, across four sectors and regions, between September and December 2007. Residencies will focus on sharing and developing creative thinking, with benefits to both the arts practitioner and the host business and its employees.The project is a partnership between arts@work and AbaF, and is supported by KPMG. Artist briefings will be held on Thursday 1st March and Friday 2nd March 2007, in Hobart and Launceston, from 11am-12noon. Please RSVP to Erin.Ledermann@artsatwork.com.au if you wish to attend this session.
Get Your Exhibition Promoted Free With the Edge Radio - T42 Arts Update The T42 Arts Update provides accessible information on local art exhibitions, openings, and gallery events in Hobart through an on air sponsorship announcement broadcast on Edge Radio 99.3fm. This promotional mechanism is supported financially by T42, who purchase the on air announcements as part of an Edge Radio sponsorship package. This is a fantastic service for Tasmania’s arts community, supporting and promoting local and international artistic excellence at no financial cost to the arts community. Please note: Listings are only eligible if the exhibition entry is free of charge. For enquiries on promoting ticketed or entry fee events email sponsor@edgeradio.org.au
City of Hobart Art Prize 07 - Photography/Digital Media and Glass Entries are invited for the City of Hobart Art Prize 2007. For entry forms contact The Hobart City Council;
Phone: 03 62 382 100
Email: artprize@hobartcity.com.au
Channel Photographic Exhibition 2007 The Woodbridge Online Access Centre are calling for submissions of work for a Photographic Competition and Exhibition to take place at the Woodbridge School on the 24th and 25th of March 2007, in conjunction with the 2007 Plein Air Outdoor Painting weekend. Entry forms and further information is available form the Woodbridge Online Access Centre, phone 03 6267 4691. Entries close Friday 9th March 2007. For more info on Plein Air click here
96 Miles Exhibition Group – Call for new members 96 Miles is and exhibiting group of contemporary artists based in Tasmania. We show group and individual artists and their work in month long shows in both Hobart and Launceston. If you are interested in joining contact Zeer on 03 6223 2525
The Janet Holmes à Court Artists' Grant and the NAVA Visual and Craft Artists’ Grants Schemes are designed to provide financial assistance to professional artists for the public presentation of their work.
For further information and application process click here
Australia Council - Visual Arts Funding - Public Briefing - Hobart The Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts will host a briefing about its funding programs for 2007. The briefing is open to everyone and will be especially beneficial to craftspeople, designers, new media artists, visual artists and arts writers interested in applying for arts funding. When: Monday, 26 February, 6–8 pm Where: Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, 27 Tasma Street, North Hobart Enquiries: 02 9215 9068 or Toll-free: 1800 226 912 Audi Art Prize Entries for the Audi Art Prize are invited from artists aged 18 and over, working across a broad range of mediums, including visual arts, dance, music, film, digital and new media. Develop a piece of ‘high performance art’. Iconic + athletic. Interpret and express the new TT’s iconic design and athletic performance. In keeping with the attributes of the TT itself, the resultant art piece should include elements of performance and technology. How this is interpreted, however, is entirely up to the artist. The inaugural Audi Art Prize winner will receive a $20,000 grant towards continuing tuition and development in their chosen media. [How this is to be spent should be outlined in all short-listed participants’ final submission to the judges.]. In addition to the grant, the winner will become an Audi Ambassador for a twelve [12] month period, with exclusive use of the new Audi TT or TT Roadster.
The winner will also receive significant local and international exposure, through the Audi brand and key media partners. The winners work will be displayed by Audi locally, and at a major international motor show.
Submissions close at 5pm, 1 March 2007 Tasmanian Regional Arts Funding – Applications Now Open Applications are now being accepted for Tasmanian Regional Arts Funding. This round of grants is to support projects commencing 1 July 2007. Grant categories include:
NEAR - New & Emerging Arts Recipients - up to$1,000
CARS - Community Activities Regional Support - up to $2,000
SOAR - Skills Opportunities for Artists Regionally - up to $3,000
ROADS - Regional Organisations Arts Development Scheme - up to $10,000
LINKS - Longer-term Incentives Nurturing Knowledge and Sustainability - $20,000/2yrs
The City of Perth invites professional and emerging practitioners to apply for The City of Perth Art Award. Selected entries will be judged for the award in October 2007. Entries Close: 16 April 2007 Applications are also sought for The City of Perth Photomedia award. For more information on either competition please click here Artlab – Ozco Inter-Arts Grants ArtLab - The Inter-Arts Office of the Australia Council for the Arts through a new ArtLab program is offering grants of up to $75,000 for new collaborations between artists to engage in a significant period of interdisciplinary research and creative development. The ArtLab initiative aims to foster experimentation and collaboration between artists from multiple disciplines to explore new artistic practice. Proposals for ArtLab should present development projects with an artistic process that demands a very high degree of risk-taking from all involved. Artists and organisations involved in ArtLab are expected to experiment with radical approaches to the creative process and be flexible to outcomes that cannot be predicted in advance. The assessment of proposals will focus on the calibre of the applicant and ArtLab participants, their artistic vision, as well as the contribution of venue partners. For further information and full application guidleines click here Applications close 15 April 2007
Poimena Art Award 2007: Shine – Entries Now Open The Award is a biennial acquisitive prize for mixed media work. Any artist working in Australia or overseas can enter. The winner receives $5000. Artists entering for the award are asked to respond to a particular theme. In 2007 this is the notion of ‘Shine’. The two judges for 2007 are artist Kristin Headlam who has deep connections with Poimena. She lives and works in Melbourne. She will be joined by renowned printmaker Raymond Arnold who has recently established LARQ, a print workshop in Queenstown on the west coast providing residencies for international artists to work in Tasmania particularly on issues of landscape and wilderness. The closing date for entries is Friday 23 February 2007, with the announcement of the winner being made at the Award exhibition which opens on Friday 29 June 2007.
Entries close 23 February 2007
The Prometheus Visual Arts Award is an acquisitive art award and exhibition, which is conducted biennially by the Prometheus Foundation. The 2007 Award entries will be selected by a pre-selection committee. Julie Ewington will choose the finalist.(Acquisitive prize $15,000) The Prometheus Visual Arts Award has been dreamed into existence through an awareness of the importance of developing artistic confidence, expertise and awareness amongst our nation's artists and our nation's children. It has been designed to inspire emerging artists to see, reflect upon and interpret our world in fresh, idiosyncratic and challenging ways. The 2005 winner was Simon Cuthbert. For further information click here Entries close 28 February 2007 ANAT's Still/Open Media Lab 07 will focus on the practice and theory of open source approaches in the fields of networked art, software development, science, print and online publishing. The lab will run throughout September as a series of workshops and forums in three locations across Australia. Applications to participate in the lab will be called for in June.
Applications should be emailed to sasha@anat.org.au by Friday 9th March or posted to Open/Source Artworks, ANAT, PO Box 8029, Station Arcade, Adelaide 5000. Please direct any queries to Kate Moskwa membership@anat.org.au or by phone (08) 8231 9037. The McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award 2007 is open to both established and emerging artists with an acquisitive award of $100,000 for winning outdoor sculpture. The award is one of Australia's most important biennial outdoor sculpture exhibition. The exhibition displays a wide range of works in different media and styles by both established and emerging artists. Over 30 sculptors will be selected to participate in the McClelland Sculpture Survey, which will highlight the diversity and invention of contemporary sculptural practice. Sculptures are displayed throughout 16 hectares of bush and landscaped gardens, providing sculptors the opportunity to present their works in an outdoor exhibition context. Artists selected are also eligible for the McClelland Award 2007, an acquisitive award valued at A$100,000. The McClelland Award 2007 will be judged by Chris Saines, Director, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tâmaki, New Zealand. The competition is open to sculptors nationally and internationally.
The Swell Sculpture Festival is an annual outdoor sculpture exhibition along Queensland’s Currumbin Beach Ocean walkway. It provides the public with a free outdoor event that creates a visual splendour amongst a natural playground. The Fifth annual exhibition will feature 60 sculptures and runs from the 14th-23 September. Artists are encouraged to build large, durable work in a variety of mediums specifically for the outdoor environment. For further information and application forms click here Submissions close 12 March 2007 Head on Alternative Portraits Photography Competition Head on is a national annual photography portrait competition and exhibition representing a vibrant diverse cross-section of new and traditional photographic practices, it is held in Sydney Australia in April each year. Head on Alternative Portraits invites photographers to submit works to the 2007 photographic portrait competition. This year Head On will establish a fund to be used for future activities to benefit the community. Prizes will be awarded for the best 3 images. Prizes include state of the art digital SLR Canon 5D (x2) plus a lens each, Canon professional A3+ printer Pixma Pro9000, ACDSee Pro Digital Asset Management software (x3) and books from Focal Press. Total value of prizes is about $14000. For further information and entry form click here Submissions close 16 March 2007 National Photography Prize 2007 - Call for Entries To celebrate the growing interest in photography the Albury Regional Art Gallery will for the first time offer a new major acquisitive cash prize of $10,000. This is in addition to the $1,500 John & Margaret Baker Memorial Fellowship for an emerging artist. A further fund of $10,000 is available for acquisitions for the ARAG collection from the selected exhibition. The 2007 prize also sees the introduction of a focus theme for the exhibition. Constructed Realms: photography as theatre aims to highlight work that explores photography as construct. All entries will be judged by Dr Daniel Palmer, Art Critic & Lecturer in the Theory of Art & Design at Monash University. For further information and entry form click here Applications close 30 March 2007. 2007 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize Designed to attract some of Australia’s finest contemporary artists and high calibre works, the inaugural Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize and exhibition was held in 2003 at Bendigo Art Gallery. Every two years the Gallery invites artists to submit entries for the Arthur GuyMemorial Painting Prize. The most outstanding work as judged by the selection panel is awarded an acquisitive cash prize of $50,000. The Prize was initiated by Mr Allen Guy C.B.E in honour of his late brother Arthur Guy, with equal assistance provided by the R.H.S. Abbott Bequest Fund. For further information click here Entries close 23 March 2007 The 2007 Australia-China Churchill Fellowship In 2007 the Australia-China Council is sponsoring the 2007 Australia-China Council Churchill Fellowship for the investigation of an issue in any field that promotes mutual understanding and fosters people-to-people relations between Australia and China. There are about 100 Churchill Fellowships available for award each year - general and sponsored - and each applicant is considered for each and every one of these Fellowships. Australian citizens over the age of 18 are eligible to apply for a Churchill Fellowship. Applicants must be able to complete a minimum of 4 weeks overseas travel to complete their research.
Applications close 28 February 2007
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