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Established in 1998, Australia’s richest landscape artprize, the Fleurieu Art
Prize celebrates the enduring importance and contemporary significance of
landscape painting in the Australian art world.
From artists whose works reflect on nature’s diversity, to those that seek a
place away from the urban sprawl, to those that question man’s impact on
the environment, landscape painting in Australia remains not only a popular
artform nationally, but also one that seeks to critically identify our place in the
world.
It seems more than appropriate that the most significant prize for landscape art
in Australia be centered in the Fleurieu Peninsula, a region which, with its striking
vistas and extraordinary geological formations, has long been both a home and
a source of inspiration for some of Australia’s most important landscape artists.
Together with The Art of Food and Wine Prize, The Fleurieu Peninsula Vistas
Prize, The Fleurieu Water Prize and The Fleurieu Youth Scholarship, the
awards represent a significant commitment by the region to the support and
development of the visual arts in Australia.
Artists are invited to enter paintings in the following five categories:
1. The Fleurieu Art Prize
For Australian landscape painting
$50,000 Acquisitive
Sponsored by Wirra Wirra Vineyard, Hardy Wine Company and Tinlins Wines
2. The Art of Food and Wine Prize
For paintings with a food and/or wine industry theme
$10,000 Acquisitive
Sponsored by Chapel Hill Winery
3. The Fleurieu Peninsula Vistas Prize
For landscape painting of the Fleurieu Peninsula region
$10,000 Acquisitive
Sponsored by d’Arenberg
4. The Fleurieu Water Prize
For paintings with an environmental water theme
$10,000 Acquisitive
Sponsored by Fox Creek Wines, Supported by SA Premiers Art Partnership Fund
5. The Fleurieu Youth Scholarship
For a young Australian artist aged between 16 and 27 years towards the cost of
a program of professional development.
$10,000 Acquisitive
Sponsored by Santos
A People’s Choice Prize will be awarded to the painting in the Fleurieu
Art Prize voted the most popular by public ballot.
Entries close 1 August 2008.
For details on how to enter, visit the website at http://www.artprize.com.au.
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