Art News
New Art Awards 2012. Entries OPEN NOW!
The Over All Winner selected by our judges will receive a cash prize of $2,500.00. Also in the prize mix is one iPhone Artist-app supplied by Rematic.com. read more, enter and vote
Gaye Spencer
Submitted by: Gaye Spencer
ARTIST STATEMENT. Human emotions, life scenarios, expectations, disappointments, and paths taken are aspects being explored through the human experience.
2012 Hornsby Art Prize - get your entries in!
Submitted by: Joanna Joyce
Over $15,000 worth of prizes to be won! Entries close 08 October 2012.
The Crossroads of Style - Art Exhibition
Submitted by: Edward Revis
Australian Multicultural Arts & Media Association are delighted to announce this year's 'The Crossroads of Style', Tuesday 2nd to Saturday 13th October at Art Space on The Concourse 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood MSW 2067 Opening Night: Friday 5 October 2012, 6pm to 8pm.
The Red Tape: debut solo exhibition by Eric Nash to open in Townsville
Submitted by: Eric Nash
The Red Tape New work by Eric Nash The Sweatshop, Townsville 1-31 August 2012 The Red Tape is the first solo exhibition from Townsville artist Eric Nash, who gained his Bachelor of Visual Arts majoring in Painting from James Cook University in 2007.
Nebula now showing at Sara Roney Gallery , Rushcutters Bay
Submitted by: Zorica Purlija
NEBULA 2012 Nebula is a collection of ethereal images contemplating spaces in-between thoughts. Lust, mixed with innocence at birth. Beauty unravelling and pouring out of the skies.
hopscotch films is releasing Wish You Were Here
Submitted by: hopscotch films
Wish You Were Here is a psychological drama/mystery starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Price and Teresa Palmer. Four friends - husband and wife Dave and Alice, and Alice's sister Steph and her new boyfriend Jeremy - lose themselves in the fun of a carefree South East Asian holiday. However, only three return back to Australia. Dave and Alice come home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy's mysterious disappearance. When Steph, returns not long after, a brutal secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend went missing. But it is only the first of many.
hopscotch films is releasing This Must Be The Place
Submitted by: hopscotch films
In This Must Be The Place, Sean Penn plays Cheyenne, a bored, retired, wealthy American goth rock star living in Dublin (and looking a lot like Robert Smith). He's a complex character, bumbling around town with friends and living in an enormous mansion with his down-to-earth wife of 35 years, Jane (Frances McDormand.) When he learns of the death of his father - who he has been estranged from for over 30 years - he returns to America to embark on a road trip that will change him forever. Hopscotch Films is giving away 2for1 tickets.
The Creation of a thriving, diverse, cultural and creative Oxford Street
Submitted by: Jacqui Bonner
The City of Sydney is fostering one of the most diverse, and exciting collaborative areas in Australia through the Oxford Street Cultural and Creative Spaces initiative, an unconventional model to address “space” affordability in the city. Sydney’s newest creative hub represents a diverse range of organisations, collectives and collaborations operating on both a non-profit and commercial basis and includes object design, web design, architecture, transmedia, film, visual arts, contemporary performance, contemporary music, start-up businesses, social enterprise, literature, animation and more.
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Juliet Wilson - Great Day Fer Livin
Submitted by: Juliet Wilson
After living in Australia for 18 years, Juliet Wilson returned to Prince Edward Island for an extended stay. The Island’s allure hit her front on: not just the vibration of the gently rolling landscape, with its patchwork quilt of red soil and emerald fields, but the beauty of the people who make up the rich fabric of the Island, their sense of place, and their way of being.
Melbourne Design Awards 2012 Launch at COMME
Submitted by: design100
Now in its third year, and a highlight of the Melbourne design calendar, the Awards celebrate the role of design and designers as innovators, and recognise that good design impacts at a business and community level. It is the only design awards program recognising a broad range of design categories open to design professionals, students and those that commission design.
New Art Contest Web site - Listing Art Contests for Graphic Designers
Submitted by: Art Comps
Art Comps is a new web site designed specifically to list different types of art contests and calls for artists for graphic designers.
Spanish artist Pere Ibanez releases new photography book - The Leftlovers
Submitted by: Pere Ibañez
Pere Ibañez will release his new series on domestic violence through his recently published book, The Leftlovers. The book will be available April 10 in print through major retailers, such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc., and the digital ebook version may be found on Apple’s iBookstore.
The Forgotten Dead - artists book project
Submitted by: Actus Reus Press
Over the last seven or more years, I have been researching a series of artists books on my relatives who served in the second world war. \ Each was a prisoner of war and each experienced extraordinary hardship.
PORTSEA FLAGS - By Olivia Stewart
Submitted by: Olivia Stewart
Mixed media, Portsea Flags have been well used, and now captured as paintings. Available Gallery Sorrento, Ocean Beach road, Sorrento.
2012 SCOPE Galleries Art Award - Art Concerning Environment
Submitted by: Liza McCosh
Call to Artists SCOPE Galleries Art Award - Art Concerning Environment $5,000. non-acquisitive prize Entries close Mon April 16 at 5pm Award exhibition June 2 - July 1 2012 Download entry form at www.scopegalleries.com
Fabian Scaunich - Director and Award-Winning Maestro Mosaicista
Submitted by: Fabian Scaunich
(Qualified Mosaic Artisan) Fabian was once co-director of a successful Melbourne-based furniture importing and wholesaling business. Now he runs a gallery and studio like the laboratori he worked in while training under the Maestri in Italy. And like the European Maestri, Fabian dedicates himself to creating timeless and superior mosaics that require absolute skill and precision.
Stroke Alt Delete - An Online Community Art Project - Artist Wanted
Submitted by: Mosaic Republic
Are You an Artist? Stroke Alt Delete Would Love to Hear from You! Melbourne-based artisan studio and gallery, Mosaic Republic, has teamed up with the Australian National Stroke Foundation to host an online community art project ‘Stroke Alt Delete’. The project kicked off in January 2012 when an online call-out was made for suggestions for a subject.
Avant Card - A progressive dynamic advertising medium
Submitted by: avantcard.com.au
A progressive, dynamic advertising medium that has connected brands with people since 1992. Over the past 19 years Avant Card has grown to be the only free postcard advertising company in Australia with more than 1,670 quality distribution points.
artCycle - ARTISTS WANTED - JOIN NOW!
Submitted by: artCycle
artCycle is a new online platform for artists to exhibit, rent and sell their works to a wide range of clients.
Mandorla Art Award - Mandorla Art Youth Award 2012
Submitted by: Camilla Loveridge
The Mandorla Art Award / Mandorla Youth Art Award 2012 awards aim to encourage and recognise the diverse talent of Australian artists. As distinguished thematic religious art awards, all Australian visual artists are invited to respond, in the interpretation of Christian themes.
NEW Gallery Space CARLTON VICTORIA
Submitted by: Michael Bula
La Maison de Maitre - a fully renovated building available for gallery space + related functions
Melbourne Design Awards 2012 - Entries open NOW
Submitted by: design100
design100 proudly presents the 2012 Melbourne Design Awards (MDA). The MDA is the first design awards program that recognises a broad range of design categories and is open not only to any emerging and professional designers globally but also those who commission design. The Awards are cross-disciplinary, celebrating and honouring the role of design and the skills of designers around the world, while recognising all aspects of the design process, including product, digital, interiors, architecture, graphic, textile, events, fashion, advertising, food, experience and publications.
Hopscotch Films is presenting A Separation
Submitted by: hopscotch films
2-for-1 passes GIVE-AWAY - A Separation is an utterly compelling and profound film that focuses on a contemporary Iranian middle-class couple who separate, and the intrigues which follow. The film received the Golden Bear for Best Film and the Silver Bears for Best Actress and Best Actor at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.
Hopscotch Films is presenting Gone
Submitted by: hopscotch films
2-for-1 passes GIVE-AWAY - Gone is a terrifying thriller that tells the story of Jill Parrish (Amanda Seyfried), a kidnap victim who escapes her captor, and a year later is convinced the serial killer who abducted her has abducted her newly missing sister, Molly. When the police don't believe Jill's claims - nor her grasp on reality - she takes matters into her own hands and sets out to hunt the killer herself.
Atkins Art Works is Releasing Prints Soon
Submitted by: Cilinda Atkins - Atkins Art Works
Atkins Art Works is currently in the process of its first print run of original works completed by Cilinda Atkins. To keep up with the latest news from Atkins Art Works go to www.atkinsartworks.com and subscribe to receive updates of latest works, prints,
workshops and exhibitions.
Sam Jinks creates intercultural sensation at the India Art Fair New Delhi
Submitted by: MediaLink Productions
The Australian artist, Sam Jinks’ exhibition of four sculptures at the 4th edition of India Art Fair, New Delhi, has created an intercultural sensation amongst dignitaries, international media and Art Fair attendees.
The Temple Of Art - Oil Painting Sale
Submitted by: The Temple Of Art
Due to lack of studio space, we have made a special offer for a series of unique oil paintings, which were completed in 2008.
Art Prizes Australia Planner 2012 - Now available online for downloading
Submitted by: Discovery Media
Issue #1 of the APA (Art Prizes Australia) Planner 2012 is now ready to be downloaded from our website. In 2011 the APA Planner was downloaded over 4,000 times from our site and this year I would hope that even more will find their way into artists' studios.
Painting by Melissa Mcnab
Dances with wools - Participant and yarn donation CALL OUT
Submitted by: The Gallery @ Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre
In September 2012 The Gallery is planning a major community project. Titled Dances with wools, the exhibition has three major components. A knitting and crochet installation created around the theme of a family meal consisting of a long table laden with every type of food, drink and tableware that can be knitted or crocheted, to suit all levels of knitters and crocheters.
Instinctual - Intuitive Painting Workshop
Submitted by: Cilinda Atkins - Atkins Art Works
Painting workshop to hone you artistic instincts in your work. MAryborough QLD.
Kellie Lloyd is donating hundred percent to a care package at Care Australia if you buy her single online
Submitted by: Kellie Lloyd
As part of her goal for 2012 to give back Kellie has decided that if you buy her single online at her bandcamp she'll donate 100% to a care package at Care Australia. please just head to her band camp page and choose to pay whatever you would like for her song Your Heart Is A Hunter and every cent will go towards helping send a girl to school in a developing country and you'll get her song as a reward :)
Danielle and Friend Indigenous World Touring Exhibition 2012
Submitted by: Danielle Burford
Exhibition showcasing Aboriginal arts and artifacts from Danielle Burford, Wiradjuri artist and her friends will visit all Australian states, USA, Canada, Oceania and Europe
Want to design the Emerging Design Masthead
Submitted by: Emerging Design
We love showcasing your design and increasing your profile as a designer, so much so that we want YOU to design the Emerging Design Masthead. We want to give you an opportunity to get your design in front of the most eyeballs on our site by giving you the key realestate on the site.
The recipient of the Art and Australia and Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award for Summer 2011 is Laith McGregor
Submitted by: Fiona David at Art & Australia
The Melbourne-based artist Laith McGregor, 34, whose work crosses the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture and video, has as been announced as the Summer 2011 recipient of the Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award. Tete blue, 2011, a sculptural bust of oil paint on modelling clay, portrays McGregor’s signature obsession with beards and will appear on the back cover of the Summer 2011 issue of Art & Australia.
HEIST eGallery - Melbournes New Online Gallery
Submitted by: HEIST eGallery
HEIST eGallery is Arts Access Victoria’s new online gallery, showcasing the work of artists with and without a disability.
Cherie Blossom Art
Submitted by: www.cherieblossomart.com
Award winning Artwork - Specially created For the One You Love. Original oil paintings made to order. Bright, beautiful and collectable
Hopscotch Films is Presenting the Academy Award nominated documentary WASTE LAND
Submitted by: Hopscotch Films
Academy Award Nominee 2011 - Best Documentary. Filmed over nearly three years, Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. 2-for-1 passes GIVE-AWAY
ArtCycle - Rent buy and much more
Submitted by: ArtCycle
artCycle provides a platform for artists to offer their works for rent and sale to all kind of art lovers. We are serving private households, corporate, hotels, real estate agents etc. If you are interested to have a beautiful piece of artwork in your space without spending or committing to thousands of dollars, artCycle might be the right partner for you.
design100 - a platform of programs that will increase design literacy encourage business outcomes and create legacy
Submitted by: design100
This will be done through creating recognition platforms for designers and commissioners of design, celebrating their work and partnerships, opening communication between designers and the marketplace and providing thought leadership on how design will shape the future.
