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prizes, grants, funding, and free exhibitions

There are quite a few initiatives on at the moment to help kickstart your arts career in the way of prizes, grants, funding, increased exposure, and free exhibitions.   Check these out!

Experimenta – Applications close 14 March 2011

Experimenta is pleased to announce the commencement of their next commission round in preparation for Experimenta’s 5th International Biennial of Media Art launching in September 2012.

Projects supported will be funded up to $8,000.

More information – http://www.experimenta.org/

ArtStart – Round 2 applications close 27 September 2011

The ArtStart program has been created to give financial assistance to recent arts graduates, helping you make the challenging transition from studying to having a professional career in the arts.  If you’ve completed an accredited Certificate IV arts course or higher in the past three years – or are about to complete one – you could be eligible.

An ArtStart grant could provide you with up to $10,000 to fund services, resources, skills development and/or equipment to help you build an income-generating career in the arts practice you have studied.

More information – http://www.artstartgrant.com.au/

Underbelly Arts – Submissions close 4 April  2011

Underbelly Arts is dedicated to supporting emerging and experimental artists to collaborate, develop and present innovative new works to a broad public.  They are currently seeking applications for their 2011 event.

More information – http://underbellyarts.com.au/

NSW Women and Arts Fellowship – Applications close 18 April 2011

This biennial fellowship was established as a result of the Women and Arts Festival in 1982. It is given to a woman to assist her professional development as an artist.

$30,000 is available.

More information – http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au

Brunswick Street Gallery Prizes & Exhibitions

$10,000 Picture This Photography Prize – Entries close 3 April 2011

$10,000 Small Works 2011 Prize & Exhibition – Entries close 29 May 2011

More information – http://bsgart.com.au/

Cheap Canvas Prints – 60% off until 13 March 2011

Place an order via their website before midnight 13th March and get the biggest discount they’ve offered all year.

More information – www.cheapcanvasprints.com.au

one hundredth gallery – Free online exhibitions until 30 April 2011

Exhibit your artwork on one hundredth gallery’s website for free.  Until 30 April 2011, we will exhibit up to ten of your artworks on 100thgallery.com for free. 

More information – http://100thgallery.com/special-offer/

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art is anything an artist calls art

by Germaine Greer for The Guardian in the UK

Now please pay attention everybody. I’m about to tell you what art is.

A week ago I confused 1,500 sixth-formers by attempting to answer the non-question: “What is art?” The students found a lot of what I said surprising. I hope too many of them didn’t ditch their portfolios and start new ones on Lady Gaga, because I rather think their teachers found what I said even more confusing than they did. So here is another go at the same thing. Pass it on.

What is art? Art is anything an artist calls art. An artist is someone who makes or does something she or he thinks of as art. Making pictures can be called graphic art, but it is quite likely to have nothing to do with art whatsoever. Take the pictures that hang every weekend on the railings of London’s Hyde Park, hundreds of them. No art involved. A graffito on a railway bridge is more likely to be art, most probably bad art, but art just the same. Most art is bad, but you don’t get the good art without the bad. Our best artists make stuff they know is bad; the difference is that they destroy it themselves. Tracey Emin didn’t wait to be told to destroy the paintings that earned her an MA at the Royal College of Art. There are a few dealers around the place who would kill to get their hands on them; she has made sure they never will. That’s the kind of thing real artists can be expected to do.

Art is a part of life, but in order to be art it has to create for itself a separate zone, what we might call the art space or the art time. A urinal is not an art object as long as it is carrying out its essential function. To make it art we detach it from the plumbing, tip it on its end and set it on a plinth. The beholder then has to entertain a galaxy of new and unfamiliar thoughts about the object, redefining it and herself in relation to it. The original object, which Marcel Duchamp called Fountain, signing it R Mutt, was rejected by the Society of Independent Artists at whose New York gallery it was supposed to be exhibited in 1917 because, they said, it was not art. In 2004, 500 British “art experts” selected it as “the most influential artwork of the 20th century”.

Human beings have always done art. They have set aside time to carry out activities that did nothing obviously useful. They made images, transformed their bodies with painted marks, told stories, sang and danced. Nowadays, we imagine that these activities were “timeless”; it would be truer to say that they were “timeful”, sometimes taking days for preparation, and days for performance. The times and the places they happened in were set aside.

For most of human history, the artist has had no duty to record what things or animals or people actually looked like. The subject of art was more often something that could not be seen, such as the energy of the monsoon, depicted in the rock art of the Australian Kimberley region as the wandjina. In that case the artist was a person apart, a senior lawman who inherited the responsibility of keeping the sacred images fresh. Before he could lay a finger on them he had to travel to the sacred site by a special route and bathe in the clean, cold water of the deep gorges. Sacred is just another name for separate.

Drawing and painting are fun, and most people like doing them, especially if they are considered good at them, but they are not art until they acquire separateness. A recognisable likeness of a celebrity will be artless, unless it acquires its own position in relation to all the other images of that celebrity and celebrity itself. Andy Warhol refined the image of Marilyn Monroe till it was almost insubstantial, a hieroglyph in place of a likeness, with neither age nor identity nor expression. It may seem the diametric opposite of the most famous portraits of history, but it isn’t. The portraits that survive have outlived their subjects and taken on a life the subjects could never claim. Those pictures exist in their own versions of the wandjina/Warhol zone.

Studying art for A-level is really tough because of the inherent contradiction between being trained to reach a standard and finding out how to be spontaneous. The value the examiners demand is creativity, but creativity cannot be taught. Lady Gaga has said: “Once you learn to think about art, you can teach yourself.” She might as well have said: “Once you learn to think about art, you can only learn from yourself.” You can be taught to draw like somebody else, but you can only learn to draw like yourself from yourself. Supposing drawing is your kind of art, and supposing you are really serious.The kids who get up at midnight and head out to a derelict wall to begin working on a graffito are working within a demanding tradition that requires the sequence of execution to have been worked out in detail in advance, before any mark can be made. They can make no money out of what they do. There are no prizes for them. They could go to jail. There is no truer example of the sacredness of the art enterprise than this. Discuss.

The original article can be found here – http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/mar/06/germaine-greer-art-graffiti

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe. Photograph: Adam Butler/AP
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a comical conversation

42 days of council conversation

Whilst I’ve cut some of the pleasantries from these emails, these are direct quotes from emails between the council and I…

20 Jan 2011 (me) – If my application needs to be advertised to neighbours, may I be given the opportunity to conduct the printing, enveloping, and mailing of the notice so that I may best control my costs associated with this exercise?

20 Jan 2011 (council) – As you have requested this within the appropriate timeframe – we will have to allow it. 

39 days later…

28 Feb 2011 (council) – I was just looking for an update on what the next steps in our process are for the change in use application.

28 Feb 2011 (council) – I have prepared your file for advertising and have noted on the file for admin that you wish to handle the postage side of things yourself, so to control costs.  Hopefully my senior will sign off advertising plans today, so notification can commence this week.

3 days later…

3 March 2011 (me) – Has there been any update from your senior on the advertising plan?   I called your admin team and they can’t tell me what is involved until they see the plan.  Depending on the difference in cost, I may just leave it up to the team at the council to do the advertising.

3 March 2011 (council) I’m so sorry for the delay, my coordinator will sort it out today.  Unfortunately we don’t have the option for the applicant to organise advertising – unlike some Councils.  So we will be organising it at a fee.  You will be contacted when ready.

3 March 2011 (me) – Previous correspondence between us suggested that I did have this option.  Please see attached.

3 March 2011 (council) Ok, sorry I forgot.

Riiightio then!  Can I please see a show of hands from everyone that has confidence in my council planning permit application process?!

What I haven’t mentioned as yet, is that even though I have already gained written approval and support from my own owners’ corporate committee (for that the building the gallery is in), the council still want to post letters to everyone in the same building to let them know of the application. 

Can I now please see a show of hands from everyone that thinks that this red tape is now comical?!

At least I can smile about it, and hope that this post has made you smile too.

We will get there, I promise! 

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non progress

Last week was a very interesting week.  Apart from launching another very talented artist (Rebecca Hartley), there was no progress on one hundredth gallery.  None.  Zero.  Nothing.

Planning Application

I lodged my planning application to the council on 17 January; 42 days ago.  In the past 42 days, I have received an acknowledgement letter and a request to supply written confirmation from Liquor Licensing Victoria that I don’t need a liquor licence.  Whilst very difficult to get, I provided the written confirmation 10 days ago.  Phone messages have been left and emails have been sent.   As soon as I work out what we’re waiting for, I’ll let you know!

Walls & Lighting

Whilst the walls went up 2 weeks ago, we haven’t made any progress with completing the render and finishing touches in preparation for their painting.  Fingers crossed that we can get this done in the next 2 weeks.

I have finally found the right lighting system for the gallery.  It is a track system with ‘clip-in, clip-out’ lights than can be adjusted and moved to wherever they are needed.  I just need to find an electrician to install them, and ‘we will have light!’

Progress

I’m pretty sure we are still on track for a May opening.

The online exhibitions have been quite successful with seven artists exhibiting their work and another two or three assembling their collections.  We will also be launching new exhibitions by some of the artists that have already exhibited, so watch this space!

If you’re an aspiring artist, and emerging artist, an established artist, or know an artist that should be exhibiting their work, then please get in touch – charles@100thgallery.com

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emerging artists now showing

One hundredth gallery is all about exhibiting aspiring and emerging artists.  Painters, photographers, sculptors, designers, textile makers, drawers, print makers, etc. are all welcome to exhibit their work with us.

We currently have six online exhibitions showing by some extremely talented artists, and hope to add a seventh and eighth later this week.  All artwork is for sale and enquiries can be made directly to the artist. 

If you haven’t already, please check out these wonderful emerging artists.

Wolfgang Glowacki

Macro Artscapes

19 Feb – 20 Mar 2011
Pete Goodlet

Noddy Comes to Daylesford

15 Feb – 20 Mar 2011
Michell Guo

Not Without Soul

10 Feb – 13 Mar 2011
Mark Hammon

Six Pack

4 Feb – 6 Mar 2011
Janicke Johansen ???(Last Week!) 

Above and Below

31 Jan – 27 Feb 2011
Brian Mangano (Last Week!) 

More than City Lights

8 Jan – 27 Feb 2011

Special offer until 30 April 2011

Between 1 February and 30 April 2011, we will exhibit up to ten of your artworks on 100thgallery.com for free.  Please click here for further details.

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experimenta commission call out

by http://www.experimenta.org/

Experimenta is pleased to announce the commencement of our next commission round in preparation for Experimenta’s 5th International Biennial of Media Art launching in September 2012.

Commissioning new work by Australian media artists is fundamental to Experimenta’s program. Through the commissioning process, we support artists in the creation of new projects including interactive, screen based, sound, public, transmedial, online artworks and beyond. Experimenta commissions provide a significant opportunity for both emerging and mid-career Australian artists to gain professional, creative and technical development, with the required financial support, to realise innovative works of art that engage and thrill the imaginations of our wide audiences.

Projects supported will be funded up to $8,000.

To apply for an Experimenta Commission and find out key submission information download the application form. All applications are to be emailed to commissions@experimenta.org along with support material sent via Dropbox or Sendspace and received by COB Monday 14 March 2011.

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introducing wolfgang glowacki and macro artscapes

We are very proud to open the first of at least two new Online Exhibitions today by photographer/artist Wolfgang Glowacki.  Wolfgang’s first exhibition with one hundredth gallery is titled ‘Macro Artscapes’.

Wolfgang’s online exhibition and biography can be found on the NOW SHOWING tab above, or by clicking here.

All of Wolfgang’s works are for sale in multiple sizes, and prices start from only $50.00 for a 200mm x 300mm print on archival paper.

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words to live by

Whilst the Holstee Manifesto was written over a year ago, it is just as relevant today as any other day.  It is a great reminder to us all that our time is very precious and that we should do all that we can to maximise it.

Life is short.  Live your dream and share your passion.

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we have walls

After several false starts, my cousin-in-law (Ric) and I finally met up at the gallery on Sunday to start constructing the gallery walls.  After surveying the site, discussing the plans, drinking coffee, and some general natter, we started building at 2pm.  

Ric owns a business that specialises in pre-fabricated concrete composite walls (www.casafico.com).  The walls are 90mm thick (the same as a normal plaster stud wall) and have an inner core of polystyrene and an outer shell of concrete sheeting.  The sides are reinforced with steel and each 600mm panel weighs 27kg. We used sixteen of them. These walls are the perfect gallery walls.

We started by securing steel channels to the floor and to the outer walls.  The wall panels were then slotted into position and secured with a second steel channel that also acts to cap the top of the wall.  All of the panels were securely screwed into the top and bottom channels and expanding foam was sprayed between the panels to further strengthen them.

We worked for seven hours straight and at 9.05pm we were ‘politely’ asked by a neighbour to stop working.  The good news is that all three of the internal gallery walls are now up, and the space feels like more of a ‘gallery’.  We still need to finish off the third wall and install a door; and then all of the walls need to be rendered (smooth) and painted.  Hopefully we’ll have this done during the next three weekends.  You will notice that the walls do not go all of the way to the ceiling (they are 2200mm high).  I did this for two reasons.  1. To allow daylight to travel into the entire space; and 2. To ensure that the ceiling-mounted airconditioning can still be effective! 

As my planning application is still trapped in its red tape, there is no rush.

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