Entries Open | Cossack Art Awards 2016
We hope you have sharpened your senses and pencils because the Cossack Art Awards call for entries has begun. One of the richest regional art prizes in the country, artists across Australia are encouraged to submit works for the 2016 awards.
Known for its strength and stature it involves a significant prize pool of more than $100,000 including $30,000 major prize and residency program.
As a result the list of awards and categories is broad. To find what suits you see here.
Entries close on 7 June 2016 at 5pm (WST).
Note that a maximum of 300 entries will be accepted, entries will close once this has been reached. Late submissions will not be accepted.
EXHIBITION
Cossack Art Awards 2016
24 July – 14 August
City of Karratha
Image: Katherine Brown, Wise Eyes, 2015, Peoples Choice
Courtesy the artist and Cossack Art Award
Cuban-born, Brisbane-based artist Jorge Mariño Brito’s practice unfolds across two material registers that are best understood not as parallel tracks but as entwined explorations. Both...
The first work you encounter in Edge City is a gate, Settlement #8, 2025. Not one to pass through (not anymore), but a threshold nonetheless....
Designed to impress, the number and size of paintings—twenty-nine at nine square metres each and one even bigger—are a spectacle, lifting the exhibition from an...
Skilfully assimilating secondary sources throughout Paris in Ruins, Smee at the conclusion of Part One, “Salon of 1869,” writes that Auguste Renoir’s and Claude Monet’s...
Multidisciplinary artist Shireen Taweel looks skyward, into the night and beyond, with her exhibition the trig point. Drawing on fieldwork in 2025 at the Siding...
It was back in 2011 that Pip Wallis, senior curator at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), remembers first seeing the work of Balinese...
Senior Pitjantjatjara artist, Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin, was born in 1952 near Bumbali Creek in the Northern Territory, close to the border with South Australia; daughter...
For those of us who seek out unfamiliar voices and see the potential for diverse cultures to create new meanings and memories in a postcolonial...
Show me the beauty of a body contorted by thrall. Then, show me the thrall. Shame is a vast word....