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2011 Tom Malone Prize Entries are now open

 

The Art Gallery of WA is pleased to announce applications are now open for the Tom Malone Prize 2012. Entries close at 5pm on Wednesday 23 November 2011. 

For further information visit www.artgallery.wa.gov.au  or contact Robert Cook, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Photography and Design on (08) 9492 6618, or email robert.cook@artgallery.wa.gov.au

 

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Realise Your Dream applications are due next week!

THE PRIZE

There are five Realise Your Dream awards up for grabs in 2011. Winners will receive:

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Propel Youth Arts WA - Nominations Now Open

Propel celebrates the achievements of creative young Western Australians

 

Create! Propel Youth Arts Award category returns for WA Youth Awards 2011.

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Attention Jewellers! Hendrik Forster Master Class Enrolments Are Open

Don't miss the opportunity for a silver smithing master class one of Australia's foremost silversmiths!

If you are interested in learning from a designer/maker with over 30 years professional practice, don't forget to put the 28th September to October 2nd in your diary for a master class with Hendrik Forster.

The class is called Back to Basics and by the end, not only will you have a finished functional table object, but a greater understanding of the basic metallurgical principles of working with silver.

Get in quick, there are only 10 places limited.

Contact enquiry.art@central.wa.edu.au for further course details or for an enrolment form.

ArtStart Grant Applications Are Open

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Lucy Bromell Upcoming Workshop

Are you interested in learning more about discharging colour from cloth and how to control that process?

Lucy Bromell is running a 2 day textiles workshop from her Ashfield studios. Places are limited to 8 only so if you would like to reserve a place please visit http://www.wafta.com.au/workshops.html to download a enrolment form.

Details
Venue: Lucy Bromell Studios, 27 Ashfield Parade, Ashfield
Dates: September 18 & 19, 2010
Times: 10am - 3pm
Cost: $150 for WAFTA members, $185 non-members + materials fee of $30 (payable on the day)

For further information, please contact info@wafta.com.au

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SOYA 2010 Entries Open

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 Artists Submissions: Sculpture by the Sea

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.  

Faces of Design Talent Awards 2010


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.

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Calling all furniture, lighting, interior and exterior designers!

Launchpad

Indesign Launch Pad: Entries Close May 10

LaunchPad is an important and unique Australian initiative focusing on the support and development of Australian product design.

Through the Launch Pad program and exhibition, the local and international design community nurtures and celebrates original, authentic and innovative emerging Australian design, by supporting and cultivating the careers of those product designers involved.

The depth and breadth of Launch Pad goes far beyond its annual exhibition of prototypes. The expertly curated Launch Pad program of events also promotes real relationships between people, ideas and products in design.=