Maldon Artist Network has partnered with EDGE Galleries to present the 2023 Maldon Landscape Prize for painting, drawing and mixed media.
The generous prize of $10,000 is sponsored by the HMR Foundation based in Italy.
The prize encourages artists to personally interpret landscape. The theme, ‘Essence of Place’, invites artists to bring their skills: everything they know, observe, and apprehend, to create work for consideration that may be formal, technically balanced, out of order, maverick, wildly inventive, traditionally understood, arresting, composed, sublime, joyous, anguished, abstract or a combination of the above.
To promote and articulate the ‘Essence of Place’ theme, the MANet and Edge Galleries teams are honoured to have permission to utilise the magnificent landscape works of the late Philip Hunter to promote the event thanks to his widow and fellow artist, Vera Moller.
“Philip Hunter was an original, unlike any other painter, in the way his draughtsmanship was in constant service to a symbolic and evocative vision of the country” (Peter Graven, Sydney Morning Herald, May 15, 2017).
As well as being a dedicated landscape painter, Philip Hunter was an academic. Having graduated at Prahran College, he later completed post graduate studies at the Victorian College of the Arts. Hunter first taught at Prahran and then became a legendary teacher in painting at the VCA.
MANet member Catherine Tait said they welcomed 2023 prize entrants’ responses to place, to environment to country re-imagined.
“We are thrilled to open the Maldon Landscape Prize to artists wherever they reside, nationally or beyond,” she said.
“All works will be submitted digitally online for initial judging by an esteemed panel of professionals and the finalists will be exhibited at EDGE Galleries in Maldon.
“Highly respected landscape painter, Mary Tonkin, will judge and award the prize.
“Following on from the great success of the Maldon Portrait Prize for both painting and for photography, we are excited to bring some beautiful work from a wide range of gifted artists to this exhibition which also includes online awards for People’s Choice.”
Information about entering, including important dates and submission details is at www.maldonartistnetwork.org.au
“We look forward to bringing this exciting exhibition to Maldon as an example of the rich cultural offerings in this part of the world and to the wonderful conversations that art prompts,” Tait said.
