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Hobart is to host a new landmark award – believed to be the world’s richest prize for landscape art – with a staggering $100,000 for the winning entry.
The Hadley’s Art Prize, Hobart, will become one of Australia’s most significant and lucrative art awards. The annual prize will also be a new cultural tourism drawcard, further enhancing Tasmania’s growing reputation as ‘an island of art’. Hadley’s Art Prize, Hobart curator, Dr Amy Jackett said: “An award of this stature is a big coup for Tasmania and will inspire both artists, and an art-loving public, as they participate in this exciting event.” She continues, “The Hadley’s Art Prize, Hobart, promotes and celebrates the work of contemporary Australian landscape artists – both emerging and established – and will generate great interest right across the nation’s arts community.”
Tasmania’s rich and complex history of landscape art was inspiration for the inaugural theme – ‘History and Place’: A portrayal of the Australian landscape which acknowledges the past, through family histories, cultural traditions, or tracing events, memories and stories in the land.
Dating back to 1834, it is fitting that Hadley’s Orient Hotel presents this award, as it has a background intrinsically linked with Australian Art. The hotel has hosted important exhibitions, the first being a collection of watercolours by Tasmanian landscape painter John Eldershaw in 1926.
The Hadley’s Art Prize, Hobart is open to Australian artists, with a panel of three national art specialists – Dr Julie Gough (artist, writer and freelance curator), Roger Butler AM (Senior Curator, Australian Prints, Drawings and Illustrated Books at the National Gallery of Australia), and Lisa Slade (Assistant Director, Artistic Programs at the Art Gallery of South Australia).
The winner and recipients of the Highly Commended Prizes will be announced at the opening of the exhibition of finalists’ artwork on Friday July 14. The People’s Choice Award will be announced in the final week of the exhibition.
This is an acquisitive award with the winning entry added to a permanent art collection at Hadley’s Orient Hotel that is open to the public.
$100,000 Acquisitive Prize
$2,250 x 4 Highly Commended Prize, awarded to four entries (non- acquisitive)
$5,000 People’s Choice Award (non- acquisitive)
The winning artwork will be acquired by Hadley’s Orient Hotel for their permanent collection of artwork at no additional cost.
Entries close April 30, 2017
hadleysartprize.com.au
