The Burnie Regional Art Gallery is now calling for entries for the Burnie Print Prize 2015, which will be held for the fifth time after the inaugural competition in 2007.
The Prize has been increased from $12,000 to $15,000 making it, alongside the Fremantle Print Prize, the equal-first richest prize for printmaking in Australia.
The judges for the Burnie Print Prize 2015 will be Jason Smith, Director & CEO of the Heide Museum of Modern Art; Helen Wright, artist and Raymond Arnold, artist.
The Burnie Print Prize is open to artists living and working in Australia.
The Prize is jointly sponsored by the Burnie City Council and the Friends of the Burnie Regional Art Gallery.
The Winner will be announced on Friday, 13 March 2015 at the opening of the exhibition, which will run as part of the Ten Days on the Island 2015 Festival (20 – 29 March 2015).
The Gallery’s permanent collection is focused on works of art on paper and has an ever growing collection of over 1,000 works on paper. 693 of these are prints by 223 Australian artists including Lloyd Rees, Sidney Nolan, Brett Whiteley, James Gleeson, Arthur Boyd and Ben Quilty to name just a few of the more famous.
Entries close: Friday 3 October 2014
Burnie Print Prize 2015 Exhibition opening: Friday 13 March 2015
Exhibition dates: 14 March – 10 May 2015
Image: Winner 2013 Burnie Print Prize: Susanna Castleden, Building The World in the correct position and the correct shape (2012)
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