Muswellbrook Art Prize will officially open on Saturday, March 14 ,from 6pm at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre. This year's judge Rachael Parsons, director at New England Regional Art Museum will announce the three acquisitive winners. Categories include the $50,000 painting prize, $10,000 works on paper prize and $10,000 ceramics prize plus there is a $1000 People's Choice Prize which visitors are encouraged to vote for during the exhibition. Sixty-one finalists - including Newcastle artists John Barnes, Zoe Tjanavaras, Michael Bell and Ros Elkin - were selected from 553 entrants. Prize on view until May 10.
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The Hatching pop-up show is currently in The Creator Incubator gallery including a impressive leaning woodcut piece by multi-discipline artist Graham Wilson and works by Matthew Tome who recently joined the collective. Also on show are signature pieces from long standing resident artists Bridie Watt, Patrick Mavety, Braddon Snape, Lyndal Campbell, Marly Houston, John Pryor and Gwynne Jones. To exhibit in this space email: hello@thecreatorincubator.com
Four new exhibitions have started in the student gallery of the University of Newcastle Watt Space by Crystian Cruz, Kathryn Jeanes, Mary Graham and Suzi Zglinicki. The gallery encourages students to present dynamic, experimental and vigorously researched exhibitions in order to develop their ongoing concepts within a gallery context. See these artists' work until March 29.
The closing event for the collaborative drawing project Commonplace by Beth George and Michael Chapman will start at 5.30pm at the University of Newcastle Gallery, Callaghan campus on Thursday, March 19. This will involve drawings made since early January.
On now at Newcastle Art Space in Tighes Hill is the wearable textile art by Pearl Red Moon. The gallery space is filled with an array of highly textured and patterned suspended coats, Thirty Coats are all hand-made from second-hand, discarded and found fabrics. Moon has followed the domestic tradition of 're-make' and 'make-do' to construct these beautiful one-of-a-kind pieces of clothing.
(Ahn Wells is the founder and director of Gallery 139)
