Invitation – Burnie Regional Art Gallery, 18 July 2023
Opening of the Burnie Print Prize 2023 – An initiative of the Burnie Regional Art Gallery (BRAG)
You are warmly invited to the opening of the 2023 Burnie Print Prize on Friday 21 July at 6pm. A very special date on Burnie’s cultural calendar, which celebrates the heritage and innovation that our City has with paper!
The Burnie Regional Art Gallery will be celebrating the opening of its ninth biennial Burnie Print Prize with live local music, a grazing table featuring Tasmanian Heritage cheeses, and of course – spectacular works submitted from established, emerging and cross-disciplinary artist’s from around Australia.
Offering a prize pool of $22,000, Mayor Teeny Brumby will be announcing the winning artist on the night, with the first prize taking home $16,000. An emerging artist will also be chosen and get to take home $5,000.
The Burnie Print Prize was first established in 2007 to:
- Develop the Gallery’s print collection
- Present the best of contemporary printmaking
- Support artists who work with the print medium
- Foster innovation in the print medium
- Promote an appreciation of the fine art of printmaking
- Recognize and celebrate craftsmanship
- Explore possibilities of the medium in contemporary practice
The Judges are:
- Milan Milojevic – Artist, printmaker, former Head of Printmaking, Senior Lecturer Printmaking, and Chief Investigator of the Digital Art Research Facility at the Tasmanian School of Art
- Ashley Bird – Artist, Senior Curator Visual Art and Design at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
- Annika Romeyn – Artist, printmaker, 2021 Burnie Print Prize winner
Good luck to all 66 shortlisted artists!
The exhibition will run from Friday 21 July until Friday 8 September 2023.
Admission is free.
