PYRMONT ART PRIZE 20 & 21 MAY @ PIRRIMA PARK

CALLING ARTISTS TO ENTER

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SATURDAY 20TH – SUNDAY   21ST MAY, 11 AM – 5 PM

PYRMONT ART, FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL 

presents the 7th ANNUAL PYRMONT ART PRIZE – Cash Prizes & Gift Vouchers to be won!

EVEN BIGGER & BETTER THAN EVER

PIRRAMA PARK, PYRMONT

On SATURDAY 20 & SUNDAY 21 MAY, a great day has been planned for the celebration of the tenth annual Pyrmont Art Prize. This year the event will be held in Pirrama Park at the old Police Water site on the panoramic foreshore of Sydney Harbour, at the end of Harris Street, Pyrmont. This exciting venue has recently been converted for public use by the City of Sydney.

The day will feature over 300 new artworks on display for the prestigious PYRMONT ART PRIZE, with thousands of $ in prizes to be won. Official guest speakers and prominent judges have been invited, and a People’s Choice Award will also be presented from the attending public.

Live music and unique performances are always a special feature of the Festival. This year the festival will include street theatre and local talented musicians who will perform all day on stage. This event presented in conjunction with the Pyrmont Festival’s – Mudgee wine & food in Pirrama Park. Tickle your taste buds with unique gourmet cuisine and local produce direct from Mudgee. Bring your picnic rug and choose from a diverse range of cuisines for lunch and try some of the 120 wines from 30 of Mudgee regions top winemakers.

All artists are invited to enter the art prize, whether they are well known or not and artists are invited to create an art piece for public display and sale. This popular art event has been well attended by the community in past years, and many beautiful, original artworks may be purchased on the day.

All artworks must be 12’x12’ in size. Canvases can be picked up from TAP Gallery; 259 Riley St Surry Hills, or you can supply your own canvas. Please not all works must be unframed, on stretched canvas.

Any enquiries call TAP on 0400610440

LESLEY DIMMICK – ‘DRIVE’ Artist Talk 4pm Saturday 21st April. Exhibition on view 11-22 April daily 12-6pm

Artist Talk 4pm Saturday 21st April

All welcome to share drinks & food

and the fabulous Vincent Van Gogh animated movie:

“LOVING VINCENT”

 

DRIVE may be entered along the middle lines of a social sculpture that of a continuous work that contains many disparate components, with a multiplicity of sensational aspects within Lesley Dimmick’s life, held with a unity of purpose.  Lesley’s relation to art – and to life – is one of dynamic assimilation.  It presents us with a series of dialogic events and puts us on the road to the heart of the artist as field worker, wanderer who encounters what is happening and keeps a record on canvas.

 

LESLEY      The real theme is the drive to paint.  This is something that we all have in us, but this is something that has been in my mind very early on, in my childhood, the dream of being a successful artist, painter. 

 

In DRIVE we have a presentation of a freighted discourse of a woman whose character has depended on what is happening, on the success and the access to those artists, painters, musicians, poets, actors, photographers, performers, singers, playwrights, composers, songwriters, digital artists, sound artist, video and film-makers, inventors, comedians, magicians, and the many varieties of observers, administrators, collectors, curators, directors and producers etc. she deals with everyday. 

 

LESLEY      The wonderful thing about being an artist is that it’s a profession to know the future but we can’t, or not that we want to know but it  fascinates us in what is going to occur, what adventures are we going to have?    But you have to be on the road, and you have to have the drive to get there.   The road is a real important thing for many artists who like to travel and see other things, view the world, see the desert, see the bush and the water.   The fascinating people that come into your life, it’s all a kind of inspiration. 

 

The choices that come in DRIVE are through a converging of perspectives from on the road, of converging interests, unintended byways, intuitive angles and the resolve of Lesley’s determination of a whole range of openings to the readiness for potential and it is because of this that there is a commingling of lived experiences with the actual experience in the time of the event.  What is known is the mobility of experience and experience in the making.

 

Angela Stretch

 

ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND THE LAUNCH SATURDAY THE 14TH OF APRIL

With special guests speakers  Dr Debra Keenahan Lecturer, Humanitarian And Development Studies (ssap).

and Sally Atkins, long friend, high school art teacher & established artst.

 

ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF GALLERY 2!

Yes we have expanded!

The new room has a unique character and is a welcome expansion of space.

Gallery 2 is available for hire:

SEE BELOW

NOW taking bookings for 2018.
Announcing our new additional gallery/performance space, seating 20, available for:

  • Workshops                                                    $25 per hour
  • Painting and Drawing Classes                   $25 per hour
  • Film Screenings (in-house projector and screen available)
  • Private Dinners
  • Seminars
  • Exhibitions :-     30 small paintings
  •                           15 large paintings
  • Hen’s nights
  • Corporate parties
  • Product Launches
Nightly Events – $200                         Weekly Events – $400