Visual arts and crafts - Call for entries

The Wilderness Gallery International Mural Fest - national

Entries by 4 December 2009

Entries are now open for Sheffield's 2010 Wilderness Gallery International Mural Fest. Artists are invited to submit miniatures of their proposed murals. International Mural Fest is an art competition that is held annually in Sheffield, Tasmania. In 2010, the festival will begin on April 4 and concludes on April 10. The festival sees nine artists engaged in a public paint-off over six and a half days. Each artist must complete a 2100mm x 4800mm mural, using the same poem as their mural's central theme and inspiration.

The Glover Prize - national

Matthew Armstrong, Transformed at Night. Image courtesy of the Glover Prize.

Entries by 22 January 2010

The prestigious Glover Prize is the richest landscape prize in Australia. It is awarded each year for the best new (previously unexhibited and less than a year old) painting depicting the Tasmanian landscape. The winner receives $30,000 and a maquette of John Glover. The prize is dedicated to artist John Glover (1767–1849) because he is regarded as the father of Australian landscape.  The 2010 judges are Imants Tillers, Artist, Trustee of Art Gallery of New South Wales; Maudie Palmer OA, Founding Director of Heide Museum of Modern Art & Director of the TarraWarra Museum of Art; and Jane Stewart, Coordinating Curator of Art at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

Bushfire photo help

Image courtesy of MAP Group.

Ongoing

MAP Group members are looking to source prints from family or friends of bushfire victims, to copy them digitally and provide images on CD to the victims. MAP Group would also like to photograph families who have lost their homes and provide them with prints to re-start their family photo collections.