Get Working on Your Art

YOU have only eight weeks to finalise your entry for this years Murrurundi Art Prize with entries to be in by May 12.

The exhibition will be held at the RSL Hall, Mayne Street in Murrurundi with opening night on Friday, May 26 and opening Saturdays and Sundays until June 12.

President of the Murrurundi Arts Council Mandy Archibald has resisted the urge to make this a national entry event with only local people able to enter.

“It’s about our fifth art prize, it’s a local art prize and goes out to Merriwa, Denman, Muswellbrook and over the range to Blackville, you see on the website there’s post codes,” said Ms Archibald.

“The Murrurundi Art Council’s aim is to nurture, encourage and promote local artistic pursuits within our community and that’s why we are keeping it a local prize rather than changing it to a national prize.”

“That’s our role and that is what we really want to do, we want to encourage people who just want to have a go,” said Ms Archibald.

The event has been moved to the end of May so that it does not clash with Scone’s horse festival and stands alone as an event allowing people to enter their works in a number of local exhibitions and lifting entries for all events.

“We have had it during the horse week festival and the prizes always clashed with the Scone Art Prize as well as Currabubula Art Prize so a lot of people have not been able to do both or all three, that’s why we postponed ours until the end of May so that if you want to enter in both the Scone show and Murrurundi that it is possible to do so,” said Mandy Archibald.

“We are hoping to see a lot of entries this year and boost the profile, it is a very artistic community, we are getting so many more artists moving into town,” Mandy Archibald said.

Under 18 year old entry is free with the adults fee only ten dollars, entries are not to be bigger than one metre on any side including the frame, under 18’s do not require a frame.

You can submit up to three entries in each section but all entries are to be for sale and must be presented framed mounted and ready for hanging and of course be original works by the submitting artist.

To see a full list of the entry requirements and find an entry form go the Murrurundi Art Prize website.

Jean Davies “Communication Point” which won Best in Show for the 2016 Murrurundi Art Prize.
Photograph courtesy of the Murrurundi and District Art Council.