Multicultural Arts Victoria and AMES presents
Heartlands Refugee Fine Art Prize 2012
Do you paint, draw, etch, take photographs, make collages, wall hangings and mixed medium? We encourage you to submit your art!
Following on from an acclaimed second year, Multicultural Arts Victoria and AMES are again collaborating to bring you the Heartlands Refugee Fine Art Prize 2012.
The Prize celebrates the contribution of refugee artists who have arrived in Australia since 1970.
This unique Art Prize showcases the creative talent and social contribution of visual artists from a refugee background.
Media Release
Media Release
Heartlands Judges
Heartlands Judges
Entry form
To enter, please download the entry form to attach to your completed work.
Entry forms can be downloaded and completed in the following languages:
Information for entrants
You can read about information for entrants, and conditions of entry, in the following languages:
Call for entries
Download the Call for entries poster and help promote the Art Prize
Entries close 5pm on Friday 20 April, 2012
Entries must be delivered to: Multicultural Arts Victoria 208-220 Bank Street South Melbourne between 10am - 5pm or email digital copies to:
fiesta@multiculturalarts.com.au
Prizes
A total prize pool of over $15,000 in cash and prizes is designed to support artistic output and career aspirations.
All short-listed works will be exhibited from 6 - 16 June at fortyfivedownstairs (Flinders Lane, Melbourne), and from 5 - 28 July at Walker Street Gallery in Dandenong. Prizes will be awarded on Tuesday 5 June 2012 at the opening of the exhibition.
www.fortyfivedownstairs.com
$5000 First Prize (including a solo exhibition and short-term Artist in Residence)
$3000 Second Prize
$2000 Third Prize
$1000 Newly Arrived Refugee Prize (arrived in Australia from 2005)
$500 for eight Honourable Mention Prizes
Theme
The entrants' painting, drawing, photography and mixed media works will reflect and express the theme: Heartlands; the aspirations, hopes and dreams that refugees bring with them to Australia.
More information
Please contact Trinidad Estay or Deshani Wickremasinghe at Multicultural Arts Victoria on 03 9188 3681 Monday to Friday, or email fiesta@multiculturalarts.com.au
To speak to somebody who can assist you with completing your application please contact: (Mondays and Fridays only)
Eh Htoo Saw Weeku (Karen) - 0434 306 108
Basim Sulaiman (Arabic & Assyrian) - 0405 538 331
Rosa Vasseghi (Dari & Farsi) - 0427 563 801
Sukte (Chin dialects: Falam, Lautu, Haka, Tiddim & Zomi) - 0430 978 048
Presenters
Partners
More about previous Heartlands Prizes
Three Countries, Ma Late, Burma (First Prize Heartlands 2011)
My journey from Burma to Thailand and Australia. My hope and dreams for Karen people and countries they live in.
View Previous Winners
View 2011 Winners Artworks
View 2010 Winners Artworks
Heartlands Refugess Fine Art Prize 2011 Winner's Solo Exhibition
Opening: 11am Thursday 16 February 2012
Exhibition: 16 February 2012 - 15 April 2012
Point Nepean Information Centre, Point Nepean National Park
Artist Ma Late, winner of the 2011 Heartlands Refugee Fine Art Prize, will bring her first solo exhibition to the Point Nepean National Park from 16 February - 15 April 2012, for more information on this event, please visit the exhibition page here.
