This time around, Unwrapped has collaborated with EPRA and PFF to showcase the best up and coming WA design talent.

Exciting young West Australian labels, A=mc2, David &/or Billy, foal, my girl gwendoline, petrafanella and pinchandspoon plus many more will be showcasing their spring/summer collections in a unique one‐day event at Perth Cultural Centre's newest space, Urban Orchid (opposite the WA Art Gallery) on Sunday 12 September.

For further information please visit: www.unwrapped.com.au

This article by Marcus Westbury was printed in The Age on August 2. 

THE perception at election time is that politicians can get ahead only by rolling out the pork barrel and spending up big. But while we'd all love more money for the arts, there are a lot of things that could make us all culturally richer for not much more than the cost of political will, taking the lead, changing some rules and tweaking a few settings.

So, in the spirit of trying to get some actual ideas into the vacuum that is this election campaign, I've knocked up a list of suggestions for pollies wanting to do - or be seen to be doing - something useful on the cheap.

1. An empty spaces program

To celebrate Mari Funaki: Objects currently showing for free at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, the NGV have 1 exhibition publication to giveaway. Email your postal address to promotions@ngv.vic.gov.au with FORM in the subject line to win. More information about the exhibition here.

Image: Mari Funaki Object 2010. Collection of the Estate of Mari Funaki, Melbourne. © The Estate of Mari Funaki

Submissions for the 2010 Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards are now open!

Designers aged 30 and under across seven creative fields are invited to submit their work for a chance to receive $5000 of financial support, $5000 in Qantas flights as well as a rare 12 month mentorship opportunity with creative leaders including Marc Newson, Zimmermann, Deanne Cheuk, Jan Chapman and Liz Ann Macgregor.

Categories include:

• fashion
• film and animation
• industrial and object design
• music
• photography
• visual arts
• visual communication

Submissions are due on the 9th August, for further information please go to www.soya.com.au .

Call for Artist Submissions for Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2011

Tim Macfarlane Reid. seeking silence. Sculpture by the Sea, cottesloe 2010. Photo Clyde Yee

Applications are now open for the 7th annual Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, which is being held from 4 October - 23 march 2011. Last year over 140,000 people attended the exhibition during the 3 week period.

The curatorial panel for the exhibition is Jenepher Duncan, Curator Contemporary Australian Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, and Tony Jones, Sculptor, Principle Lecturer Sculpture, Central Institute of Technology Perth.  

Only 10 more days: the deadline of the Faces of Design TALENT Awards 2010 is drawing closer!

Faces of Design has started the final countdown for the first round of their ultimate portfolio competition for design students and recent graduates. Only until July 15th, young designers can get signed up for this competition, in which candidates can submit up to three existing projects to be judged by a panel of leading international creatives and design thinkers. The winning designers' profiles will be distributed to over 1.000 key decision makers at more than 300 companies, including firms such as vitra, IKEA, the Richemont Group (including prestigious brands such as Montblanc, Cartier and Chloé), designers’ studios such as the Campanas’ and Bouroullecs’, and the design press.