CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN SILVER & METALWORk AWARD ...

Terms & conditions
1. The Contemporary Australian Silver
& Metalwork Award is a nationally
acclaimed biennial award exhibition
founded by BUDA Historic Home and
Garden, Castlemaine. The award has
multiple prizes in both professional and
student award categories.
2. In 2013, the award is being conducted
by Bendigo Art Gallery (the Gallery).
The professional award categories are
open to all Australian artists (citizens
of Australia or residents for at least 12
months). The student award categories
are open to all current and recently
graduated students (2011 and 2012)
enrolled in or recently graduated from
an accredited jewellery or silversmithing
course.
3. The award exhibition will be held at
Post Office Gallery, a satellite space of
Bendigo Art Gallery, at 51 – 67 Pall
Mall, Bendigo from 29 June – 28 July
2013.
4. Works chosen for the exhibition will
be pre-selected from digital images.
Artists may enter a maximum of two
works. Works must be the original
work of the artist. Work must be
designed and produced in the last two
years. If selected, one of the two works
submitted for pre-selection must be
available for display.
5. The judges’ decision will be final and
no correspondence will be entered into.
6. The judges will select one winning
work in each award category. The judges
reserve the right not to select any work
if works are not, in their opinion of
sufficient merit. The Gallery has the
right to refuse to display any entry.
7. Entries must be physically received by
Bendigo Art Gallery by 4pm Friday 1
February 2013. Entries received after
4pm Friday 1 February 2013 will not
be accepted. Entries must consist of
no more than two digital images (one
image per work entered supplied on
disk), curriculum vitae (two pages
maximum), entry form and entry fee.
Emailed entries will not be accepted.
8. Entry fee is $30 per professional
artist and $15 per student. Entry
fee is non-refundable and covers
administration and handling. Any entry
not accompanied by payment of entry
fee will be ineligible. Payment may
be made by cheque or credit card to
Bendigo Art Gallery. A receipt will not
be mailed unless requested. Envelopes
must be addressed with: Contemporary
Australian Silver & Metalwork Award.
Artists’ CVs and images will not be
returned unless a stamped self-addressed
envelope is provided.
9. Employees of Bendigo Art Gallery, City
of Greater Bendigo and, the organisers,
and members of their immediate family
are ineligible to enter.
10. Digital images should be less than two
megabytes (when opened), saved as
jpegs and able to be opened on PC
format. Jpegs must be saved on CD with
the following details as the file name:
artist surname_artist firstname_title.
jpg (Example: leviny_ernest_bracelet.
jpg). Slides, photographs, photocopied
reproductions, emailed images or any
other representations of the work
will not be accepted.
11. All artists will be informed of preselection
outcome by 1 March 2013.
The Gallery will retain selected artists
visual material until the close of the
exhibition.
12. The Gallery will not be responsible for
any loss or damage suffered to any work
in its possession or under its control and
each entrant shall indemnify the Gallery
against loss or damage suffered to his or
her work. Works will not be insured by
the Gallery.