Entries are now open for one of Mackay’s most prestigious art prizes, the Woollam Art on Show Awards 2022.
Celebrating its 16th year, the annual Art on Show event will take place between August 5 and 8, this year joining the Mackay Festival of Arts as a new Fringe Event.
Art on Show offers artists an excellent opportunity to showcase their work to over 300 guests throughout the exhibition at the Mackay Showgrounds 500 Pavilion.
Entrants will also have the chance to win a share of the $11,000 prize pool and the opportunity to sell their work.
There are five sections of entry, with the major prize, the Woollam Art on Show Award, offering $3000, and the People’s Choice Award to be judged by event patrons.
The Mackay Show Association initiative is a celebration of visual arts in regional Queensland, seeking a significant level of participation from artists locally, interstate, and nationwide, with the aim of promoting the arts sector to the Mackay region through a high standard of presentation.
The event provides a platform for local artists to connect with the local art community, showcase and sell their work, and further their artistic careers.
The initiative also focuses on unearthing new talent amongst emerging high school senior art students by working closely with the region’s art educators.
Since the event’s inception in 2006, it has attracted over 6000 competition entries, received from artists as far as Tasmania and Cairns.
The Mackay Show Association has announced Ms Deanna Hitti as the guest judge for the 2022 awards.
Ms Hitti is an award-winning Melbourne-based artist whose works have been short-listed in numerous Australian art awards.
She was the recipient of The Libris Award in Mackay in 2008 and most recently the 2018 Fremantle Art Centre Print Award.
Ms Hitti will also be presenting a special artist talk at Artspace Mackay and a masterclass artist workshop at the Mackay Showgrounds during her visit.
The competition has previously attracted high-profile guest judges including directors and curators from Artspace Mackay, New England Regional Art Museum, the Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery
Artist Greg Cannon with his work entitled Driftwood Retreat, the Overall Winner of the Woollam Art on Show Award 2021
Local artist Jason Keehn views his work in the 2021 exhibition
Art on Show Awards Coordinator Melissa Broadhurst admiring entries in the 2021 exhibition. Photos: supplied
Ms. Deanna Hitti, nationally acclaimed Australian artist, and recipient of the 2018 Fremantle Art Centre Print Award will judge the 2022 Art on Show competition. Photo: Rebecca Umlauf
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