The BigCi Environmental Awards 2015 & Artist Residency

Australian and International Artists are invited to submit entries for the BigCi Environmental Awards 2015. 

Thanks to private sponsorship, we are offering this year: 

3 awards, each consisting of a free 3-week BigCi artist residency. 

Submissions deadline is 10th of March 2015. 

See www.bigci.org for more information about BigCi (Bilpin international ground for Creative initiatives). 

Submission Criteria The BigCi Environmental Awards are open to artists from various fields such as visual art, installation, multimedia, performance, literature, music, film-making and curating. 

Your submission must show how you wish to respond to the environment around BigCi. 

BigCi is located only 1.5 hours drive from Sydney, Australia’s biggest city, yet it is in a dramatically different world - on the edge of the Wollemi National Park in the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Greater Blue Mountains. This is an area of stunning scenic beauty, with its own unique flora, fauna and geomorphology. 

For your project during the BigCi residency, you can choose to deal with a particular environmental issue, explore ideas and concepts related to nature, or use this opportunity to creatively respond to the unique wilderness on our doorstep. 

Each Environmental Award recipient will receive 3 weeks of free residency at BigCi during a mutually agreed period of time within 12 months after receiving the Award. 

The Judging Panel 

The Awards will be judged by an independent panel of judges. 

Greg Johns, sculptor with strong interest in the environment and maintaining bio-diversity. 

Jenny Pollak, multi-media artist, photographer and poet. 

Lindie Ward, freelance curator, previously at the Powerhouse Museum; designer and textile specialist. 

The judges reserve the right not to grant any or all of the Awards if the calibre of the applications is not deemed suitable. The judges’ decision is final. 

JADA 2010: Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award

Entries are accepted of Drawings made in 2009/2010.

Entry closes on 6th of August.

Images of past entries can be seen here.

Entry form can be accessed here.

Peats Ridge 2010 : Calling for Artists

Peats Ridge Arts and Culture Team are looking for bold artworks and performances that will enhance the festival experience. Preference will be given to engaging works that may:

• Be site specific or enhance the natural landscape and festival site
• Draw attention to issues relating to the environment, lifestyle or culture
• Showcase Peats Ridge as presenting innovative works and supporting talented artists
• Reference principles of sustainability and support the Peats Ridge objectives of protection and education about the environment and social change through art.

Go to the link (click on the heading of this entry) for application.  Deadline: 30th September.

CALL FOR SCULPTORS: Toyota Community Spirit Gallery Indoor Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition

The annual Indoor Outdoor Sculpture exhibition is open to all Victorian based sculptors of any level of experience from emerging to established artists. The exhibition is designed to showcase the diversity and excellence of sculpture practice in Victoria. There is no cost to apply, no commission on sales and a small fee is available to successful applicants to assist with transport and installation. All successful applicants to the Toyota Community Spirit Gallery program are eligible to apply for the $10,000 Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award.

For more information and application forms download documents here from the links below (you must download both documents):

Information for Applicants

Application Document

Applications close 23 July 2010.

Call for artist submissions: headland 2011 (NZ)

Contact E-Mail : info@sculptureonthegulf.co.nz
Deadline : Saturday, 1 May, 2010
State : International

headland Sculpture on the Gulf Waiheke Island, NZ
Next year’s headland Sculpture on the Gulf 2011 will be the fifth biennial exhibition set along Waiheke’s spectacular coastal walkway during summer 2011 from January 28 to February 20.

All work for headland is selected especially for the exhibition. The selectors’ panel for 2011 all have national experience and include Trish Clark, Chairperson  for the Advisory Panel for Public Art; Heather Galbraith, Senior Curator/Manager Curatorial Programmes at the City Gallery, Wellington, Te Whare Toi and James McCarthy, Executive Director, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts.

Selected international artists are eligible for financial assistance
Information and application forms are on the website www.sculptureonthegulf.co.nz
Artists are invited to talk over their ideas with director, Juliet Monaghan.

CALL FOR ENTRIES JOHN FRIES MEMORIAL PRIZE 2010

The John Fries Memorial Prize 2010 is an award of $10,000 and a solo exhibition at Viscopy's contemporary art space, Blackfriars off Broadway.

This annual prize is open to all artists resident in Australia whose work is not represented in the collection of  a regional, state, territory or national public art gallery.

 Artists of all ages and disciplines, whether members of Viscopy or not, are eligible to enter.

The prize has been donated by the Fries family in memory of former Viscopy director and honorary treasurer, John Fries, who made a remarkable contribution to the life and success of Viscopy.

Completed entry applications must reach Viscopy by 5pm Monday 24 May 2010. For more detailed information please go to http://www.viscopy.org.au/john-fries-prize where you can download an entry form with conditions.
Viscopy is Australia and New Zealand's not-for-profit copyright collecting organisation for the visual arts providing copyright licensing services on behalf of our members to a wide and varied customer base. We represent approximately 43% of Australian and New Zealand artists and their beneficiaries and 40,000 international artists and beneficiaries in Australian and New Zealand territories through reciprocal agreements with 45 visual arts rights management agencies around the world.

runway calling for proposals and submissions for ISSUE 16 | DISAPPEARANCE

Emerging and early career practitioners are particularly encouraged to submit. Submissions should address the theme of the issue, however lateral approaches are encouraged.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS FROM WRITERS AND FINAL SUBMISSIONS FROM ARTISTS: MONDAY 5 APRIL.

Download the submission guidelines for ARTISTS

Download the submission guidelines for WRITERS

Fletcher Jones Art Prize | Deadline: 30 April

The Fletcher Jones Art Prize is an acquisitive painting prize, conducted by the Geelong Gallery on a biennial basis. The prize continues the tradition of the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize and is worth $30,000.

Exhibition dates: 24 July to 12 September 2010

For more information and application form click on this link.

Off the Wall 2010

Off the Wall will showcase a selection of works from ten of the best up-and-coming artists from a variety of backgrounds working in a broad range of mediums.  Hand-picked from over 300 entries by a panel of judges, comprising leading art experts, Off The Wall is the best place to spot fresh, contemporary talent.

Art Melbourne 2010 will mark the tenth Off The Wall. We have helped over 220 artists gain representation since 2006 and have helped launch some very successful careers by spotting significant emerging talent. This really is the Art World equivalent of “So you think you can dance”!

The selection panel for Art Melbourne 2010:

• James Makin - Director James Makin Gallery
• Ken McGregor - Art manager and author
• Jane Scott - Director Tarrawarra Museum of Art
• David Larwill - Artist
• Alex McCulloch - Director Metro Gallery
• Cash Brown - Artist, curator and consultant

The only criterion for selection is the artist must not have formal representation in the city of the event in which they apply; all mediums and age groups are eligible.

Off The Wall is generously supported by Art Almanac, who provide stunning colour catalogues at each event and advertise the event in their essential Australian gallery guide.  The 2010 Off The Wall is dedicated to the loving memory of Janice McCulloch, who not only was the Editor in Chief of Art Almanac and great supporter of Off The Wall and all of the artists involved, she was also an extremely avid collector of emerging Australian art, a wonderful mother and very dear friend.

Important Timelines:

Art Melbourne 2010 deadline March 1, 2010

The actual event date is 22-25 April 2010

Art Sydney 2010 deadline July 1, 2010

The actual event date is 21-24 October, 2010

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Please be patient while we update this page, in the mean time go to www.artoffthewall.com.au for more information.  Click on the red dot for application forms.

The Toyota Community Spirit Gallery : Calling for Submissions from Emerging Artists

The Toyota Community Spirit Gallery is calling for submissions from emerging artists to exhibit in our Emerging Artist exhibition in March 2010.

A broad range of contemporary and traditional works across all mediums is sought from artists from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. The focus is on local artists from the cities of Port Phillip and Hobsons Bay but the program is also open to regional and interstate artists in Australia.

There is no cost to exhibit and no commission charged on sales of work.   Established in 2004, the Gallery runs a continuous program of exhibitions at Toyota’s corporate headquarters in Port Melbourne and has shown the works of over 490 artists. 

Successful applicants are eligible to apply for the $10,000 Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award.

To download further information on this exhibition and application documents:

•  Information for Applicants 

•  Application Document

Applications close 8 February 2010.

The Alice Prize - A National Contemporary Art Award

The Alice Prize
Deadline: 6 November
E-Mail: asafoundation@bigpond.com

The next Alice Prize will be held from 1 May to 6 June 2010. The Prize is now $20,000 (acquisitive) plus 4 weeks residency in Alice Springs. Entries close 30 October 2009 and selections take place in November 2009.

This is not an award restricted to landscape genre.  For full details on conditions of entry and entry form click on the link embedded in the Title.

International Artist Residency

Omi International Arts Centre, Columbia County, New York
www.artomi.org

Deadline for the 2010 residency session is Friday, December 11, 2009.
Please note this is NOT a postmarked deadline: applications must be received in our New York City office by December 11, 2009.

For Application guideline and application form, click here.

ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS N°10

KUNSTRAUM KREUZBERG / BETHANIEN
December 12th 2009 - January 17th 2010

CALL FOR ENTRIES
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: OCTOBER 15TH 2009

In the context of ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS a selection of drawings by international artists will be presented anonymously at KUNSTRAUM KREUZBERG / BETHANIEN. The general exhibition preparation starts with an international call for entries on the Internet. No demands are being made; age, biography or heritage of the originator do not play any role for the selection.

The artist's anonymity can be lifted by means of purchasing a drawing for the symbolic unit sales price of 150 EUR. The buyer can take his drawing right off the wall and s/he is then told the name of its author. The empty space the drawing leaves behind will be marked with the artist‘s full name and country of origin.

The given unit sales price should not be seen as a real market price, but as a place holder for any conceivable amount of money. Because the works are from both established artists and laymen, it is expected from the viewer to draw his own line between art and not-art. Common, art specific mechanisms like the importance of an artists` ego, price formation or prepared qualities which can be referred to a specific art context, should be reversed in this exhibition in an experimental way: the artists engage themselves to put their own person into the background for the benefit of the actual product, their artistic work.

Application form
and further informations:
www.bluetenweiss-berlin.de

concept and idea: Anke Becker / blütenweiss berlin
contact: info@bluetenweiss-berlin.de

ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS N°10
December, 12th 2009 - January 2nd, 2010
opening reception: December, 11th, 2009 / 7 pm

Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2
D-10997 Berlin
www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de

Tiny Stadiums festival 2010

Applications open for Tiny Stadiums festival 2010

In Early March 2010 Quarterbred will be curating the second Tiny Stadiums Festival throughout Erskineville.

For the Tiny Stadiums Festival Quarterbred aims to program art projects that have innovative audience experiences at their core.

The overall festival aims to include: a season of two performance/ live works at PACT theatre, a video library, a rooftop cinema, artist talks, a launch party and a weekend of site-specific live and visual artworks in Erskineville village.

Check out our website to get a sense of what the 2009 festival entailed. Interactive, site specific and cross-artform projects are particularly encouraged. All projects must take place in Erskineville.

You may like to respond to one of these spaces in your idea: PACT theatre, a school, a railway station, Erskineville town hall, a churchm A vacant lot, an empty shopfront, a Laundromat, a pub, a bus stop, a café, a playground, a small park, a parking lot, a street tour of Erskineville, a post office.

Your idea need not be themed around these spaces but be flexible to fit within public spheres. Please note that not all of these spaces are confirmed as available at this stage.

In your application please include:

- Your contact details and a paragraph biography
- A description of your idea
- The audience experience your project
- Basic technical requirements.

You will be asked to present a development or talk about you idea in late October 2009.

Artists will receive:
-An artist fee
-Inclusion in a large marketing campaign for the festival
-A project manager
-Access to a production manager and pact resources.


APPLICATIONS DUE AUGUST 15th, and must not exceed two pages

Send applications to quarterbred@gmail.com
Contact us at the same address with any enquiries.

Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize 2009 MCAP'09

Call for Entries
Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize 2009 (MCAP'09)

Attention artists living or working in the Marrickville local government area including; Camperdown, Dulwich Hill, Enmore, Erskineville * , Lewisham, Marrickville, Marrickville South, Newtown, Petersham, St.Peters, Stanmore and Tempe.

Entries for artworks in any medium are currently being accepted for MCAP'09, the 3rd annual contemporary art prize showcasing and celebrating the creative talent of our communities, brought to you by At The Vanishing Point Contemporary Art and supported by Marrickville Council.

Open Award $2000 - At The Vanishing Point 11-27 September
Student Award $1000 - Chrissie Cotter Gallery 4-27 September
People's Choice 2 x $250 (Open and Student)

Entry Fee $25/$20 per artwork.

Entries due by 5pm Sunday 23 August 2009

Click here, or, email info@atthevanishingpoint.com.au for an entry form. For further information please call Georgina Pollard on 0423 764 824

Or see the ATVP website or Facebook event;

MCAP'09 is supported by Marrickville Council through the Marrickville Festival Grants Program.