Art & Industry 47Artist
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4ABeijingStudioProgram 2019
Residentsannounced
Threeartists,JessicaBradford,OwenLeongand
EmilyParsons-Lord,havebeenselectedto participate
in 4ACentreforContemporaryArt’s– 4ABeijing
StudioProgram.Themonth-longresidencyat Shen
Shaomin’sstudiosin Beijinggivestheartistsan
opportunityto embarkonresearchfornewprojects
in therichculturalsurroundingsof theregion,while
allowingthemto buildprofessionalnetworksand
observethechangestakingplacein oneof themost
importantcitiesin Asia.
Jess Bradford, 4A Beijing Studio Program recipient 2019
Photograph: Jacquie Manning
Courtesy 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
Singaporean-born and Sydney-based artist Bradford
works with painting, ceramics, video and installation,
which explores her mixed heritage by examining
representations of cultural identity. Her current body
of work consists of painted concrete dioramas, which
explore the topics through a Chinese cultural theme
park in Singapore named Tiger Balm Garden, and
questions how we define Chinese culture while
engaging with personal and collective memory and
concepts of cultural inheritance.
Leong’s practice uses personal mythologies to
explore identity and transformation, which draw
on his interest in systems of power, culture and
representation. He uses the body, subjectivity and
personhood to reflect on universal aspects of human
nature, using modes of performance, photography,
video and sculpture to express these ideas.
Parsons-Lord creates installation and performance
works that exist at the fringes of natural sciences and
politics; she transforms research into poetic artworks
that can be inhaled, disappear or melt before your
eyes, informed by research and critical dialogue with
climate sciences, natural history, and politics. With
tragi-humour, scale, and performance, this artist
interrogates the materiality of invisibility, magic, and
stories about reality.
4a.com.auBlacktown City Art Prize
Entries close 5pm, 8 October 2019
Artists from all over Australia are invited to enter
the Blacktown City Art Prize, now in its 24th year it
offers cash prizes and acquisitive awards for entries
in drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics and mixed
media. The winner will receive $15,000 with three
supporting prizes to also be awarded: Aboriginal Artist
Prize ($2,000), Local Artist Prize ($2,000), People’s
Choice Prize ($1,000). This year, the winners of
the Local Artist Prize and Aboriginal Artist Prize will
also have the opportunity to undertake a two-month
residency in one of Blacktown Arts’ Main Street studios.
blacktownarts.com.auDoug Moran National
Portrait Prize
Entries close 2 September 2019
The Moran Arts Foundation is calling for entries
for the 2019 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize,
Australia’s richest art prize. The prize invites entries
of original works from Australian artists which capture
Australians from all walks of life, whether a public
figure or someone from their own circle of experience.
Works must be painted at least partly from life with
the sitter known to the artist and aware of the artist’s
intention to enter the Prize. There is a total prize pool
of $180,000 with the first prize winner to be awarded
with $150,000. The finalists exhibition will be on
view from 1 October to 1 December, at Juniper Hall in
Paddington, Sydney.
moranprizes.com.auCopyright Agency Fellowship
for a Visual Artist
Applications close 1pm, 23 September 2019
The Copyright Agency’s fellowship program awards
one $80,000 Fellowship each year to an established
Australian visual artist to develop and create
new work in any medium for exhibition or public
presentation. To be eligible to apply applicants
must have a contract to exhibit their work with a
commercial or public gallery, or a letter of intention
to exhibit. The Fellowship is for projects starting after
1 January 2020. All relevant information and criteria
can be found on the Copyright Agency website.
copyright.com.au