2018 Art Award
2018 Grace Cossington Smith art award winner Catherine O'Donnell with 2016 winner Mark Titmarsh
GCS Art Award_Media release_2018.pdf
GCS Art Award Catalogue on ISSUU
Judges:
Alison Clark, Team Leader Arts & Culture at North Sydney Council; and Dominik Mersch, Dominik Mersch Gallery Rushcutters Bay
Catherine O'Donnell was announced as the recipient of the Grace Cossington Smith art
award.
Catherine
O'Donnell Yates Court,
pencil on paper, 46 x 65 cm,
courtesy the artist and MAY SPACE
Stephen Hall is the recipient of the Local artist award
Stephen Hall Asking Answers Revealing Questions Punctuating with Sighs (suite of 10
etchings etching, aquatint, 37 x 30 cm each, courtesy the artist
Jane Théau is the recipient of the Early Career artist award
Jane
Théau In Touch (Screens 1),
thread and tarlatan, 100 x 80
cm, courtesy the artist
2018 art award finalists
2018_GCS art award Media release.pdf
2018 Exhibition Views
Photographs copright Richard Glover
The Grace Cossington
Smith biennial art award
Entries now CLOSED
The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery and Abbotsleigh are pleased to announce the Grace Cossington Smith art award
has returned as a biennial award.
Submissions are invited from Australian artists, aged over 18, for original work in any two dimensional
media in response to the theme Making Connections.
The award theme is inspired by the work of Abbotsleigh Old Girl and artist Grace Cossington Smith who made
connections with her changing world through her drawing and painting.
There will be an exhibition of up to 40 finalists with three awards and a winner's exhibition in the
following year.
The awards:
- $15,000 awarded to the winner (acquisitive).
- $2,500 awarded to an early career artist.
- $2,500 awarded to a local artist from Hornsby and Kuring-gai area. Sponsored
by Susie Stathakis and Di Jones Real estate Wahroonga
- The winners share a three-week group exhibition at the GCS Gallery in 2019
Key dates:
- Online entry opens
4 April 2018
-
Entries close
2 September midnight
- Selected finalists listed on website 27 September 2018
- Delivery
23 to 27 October 2018
- Exhibition
3 to 24 November 2018
- Opening and award presentation 3 November 2018 3 pm
- Collection
28 November to 1 December 2018
Judges:
We are also pleased to announce our judges for this year
are:
Alison Clark, Team Leader Arts & Culture at North Sydney
Council; and Dominik Mersch, Dominik Mersch Gallery Rushcutters Bay
Sponsors:
We appreciate the support of
Susie Stathakis and
Di Jones Real Estate Wahroonga
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Please read the terms and conditions of entry:
GCS art award 2018
Conditions of Entry.pdf
GCS Art Award