Artworks in the running for awards
SHORTLISTED works for awards will be exhibited at McClelland Gallery in Langwarrin from next month.
The pieces on display are in the running for awards totalling more than $50,000. Drawings, watercolours, and ceramics will be in contention.
The top prize, the Rick Amor Drawing Award, is worth $20,000. Three winners of the Splash Contemporary Watercolour Award will be chosen, receiving $10,000 each. A tertiary arts student will receive $3000 for a ceramic artwork.
RICK Amor’s, The Dog, 1990.
Funding for the awards were from the Fornari Bequest, artist Rick Amor, and Mary and Lou Senini.
McClelland director Lisa Byrne said the exhibition is “an important snapshot of contemporary practice, and a wonderful opportunity to support artists who we know have been doing it hard during lockdown.”