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Matthew Harkness, Bioplastic Waste Dustpan & Brush
Andrew Kaineder, Mourning Country, film still
Jessie French, Algae Bioplastic Tableware (detail)
Environmental Art & Design Prize exhibition 2021 installation . Photo by Greg Piper
Environmental Art & Design Prize exhibition 2021 installation . Photo by Greg Piper
Environmental Art & Design Prize exhibition 2021 installation . Photo by Greg Piper
Environmental Art & Design Prize exhibition 2021 installation . Photo by Greg Piper
Environmental Art & Design Prize exhibition 2021 installation . Photo by Greg Piper
Environmental Art & Design Prize exhibition 2021 installation . Photo by Greg Piper
Environmental Art & Design Prize exhibition 2021 installation . Photo by Greg Piper
How are you responding to our climate emergency? What are your environmental concerns? What are your innovative and creative ideas for a better future? How are you advocating for our planet through your creative practice?
Artists and designers, are agents of change, often taking the lead in responding to environmental or societal challenges.This year we are calling on artists and designers Australia-wide, to share their unique perspectives and creative ideas for positive change in the 2022 Environmental Art & Design Prize.
Open to painting, photography, digital media, ceramics, functional and textile design and more, the Environmental Art & Design Prize is an annual non acquisitive award with nine categories and a prize pool over $40,000.
The exhibition of finalist works will be displayed at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Curl Curl Creative Space and Mona Vale Pop Up Gallery in August 2022. Winners to be awarded by the external judging panel of leading creative practitioners and thinkers: environmental artist Janet Laurence, designer and founder KITX Kit Willow, architect and USYD lecturer Dr Michael Mossman.
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- Entries open 10am, 16 March
- Entries close 5pm, 25 May 2022
- Exhibition of finalist work 5 - 28 August 2022
The $40,000+ prize pool will be shared across the following categories, as well as the People’s Choice Awards.
OPEN ($5,000 each category, open to artists/designers 19 years and older)
YOUNG ARTISTS & DESIGNERS ($2,000 each age category for work in any medium listed above).
The age of the artist/designer is the age as of 11 May 2022.
Artists and designers across the country are now welcome to submit entries.
Please read the Terms and Conditions of Entry before commencing your entry form.
Closes at 5pm, Wednesday 25 May 2022.
We congratulate our past winners and thank them for the outstanding entries they have submitted.
Read more detail and view the works.
Creative Toolkit: Made by nature, 2021. Work and details by Ivy Whiteman
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