Entries are now open for Mackay`s prestigious Woollam Art on Show Awards.
Mackay Show Association announced the launch of Mackay`s highly popular, non- acquisitive 2023 National Art Prize, returning August 4-7, with new additions to further highlight art and culture in the region.
Celebrating seventeen years of art excellence, The Mackay Show Association’s initiative behind establishing The Art on Show Awards was to take the arts to a higher level of professionalism within the context of a community art competition in the show “arena”.
The Association strives to seek a significant level of participation from artists locally, interstate and nationwide while providing a high standard of presentation.
Art on Show plays an integral part in Mackay’s cultural future as a high-profile arts event and provides an educational role, raising awareness and promoting the arts to patrons who attend the event and the Mackay Regional Show.
The Art on Show Awards have five sections of entry with the major prize the Woollam Art on Show Award being $3,000 and the total prize purse increasing to $12,000.
As always, Mackay Show Association has secured the services of a high-profile judge with nationally and internationally acclaimed Australian artist Anneke Silver judging this year’s competition.
Townsville Artist Dr. Anneke Silver loves the tropical North as a place to live, and the diversities of subject matter it offers, from interpretations of landscape to rainforests, vast expanses of the outback as well as the typical architecture.
Most of her life has been divided between art practice and art teaching, enjoying the interaction between the two.
Art on Show is the starting point for many local artists to exhibit and launch their careers, also focusing on unearthing new talent amongst emerging high school senior art students by working closely with our region’s Art Educators
All works will also be available for purchase during the exhibition.
Art on Show will open on the evening of Friday, August 4 and the exhibition will be open until Monday, August 7.
Visit artonshow.com.au for more information and to enter.
WHAT: Art on Show
WHERE: Mackay Showgrounds
WHEN: Friday, August 4 until Monday, August 7
Winner of the 2022 Art on Show Award Artist Emily Jayne Carroll and her work entitled Fredrick
Artist Dr Anneke Silver, nationally and internationally acclaimed Australian artist, will judge the 2023 Art on Show Awards competition
Coordinator Melissa Broadhurst and Cynthia Williams view entries in 2022 exhibition. Photos supplied
