{"id":11471,"date":"2018-07-28T08:53:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T07:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/?p=11471"},"modified":"2018-07-28T08:53:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T07:53:58","slug":"calling-for-entries-for-the-30000-dobell-drawing-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/calling-for-entries-for-the-30000-dobell-drawing-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling for entries for the $30,000 Dobell Drawing Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;5px&#8221;][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<b>Deadline<\/b><\/p>\n<p>September 3rd, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artshub.com.au\/education\/news-article\/sponsored-content\/arts-education\/gina-fairley\/calling-for-entries-for-the-30000-dobell-drawing-prize-256071\">https:\/\/www.artshub.com.au\/education\/news-article\/sponsored-content\/arts-education\/gina-fairley\/calling-for-entries-for-the-30000-dobell-drawing-prize-256071<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11472 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DobellDrawing2018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DobellDrawing2018-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DobellDrawing2018.jpg 600w, https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DobellDrawing2018-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DobellDrawing2018-50x38.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"menu-section\">\n<p><em>Image: Liz Bradshaw,\u00a0<\/em>Smalltown boy, Darlinghurst\u00a0<em>(detail) 2017. Graphite, pen, acrylic dimensions variable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nas.edu.au\/Whats-On\/news\/dobell-drawing-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Dobell Drawing Prize<\/a>\u00a0is back in a newly revived state, tackling drawing as a progressive 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0century medium and looking at all its permutations within art making today.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by the National Art School (NAS), the Prize positions drawing not as a dusty, dry draftsmen\u2019s tool but rather as the foundation of all learning, thinking and seeing.<\/p>\n<p>NAS Director Steven Alderton told ArtsHub: \u2018We want to bring drawing into a 21<sup>st<\/sup>century conversation. Drawing has a long way to go and it plays a big part in what we do here at the NAS.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He said the biennial prize was a perfect fit with the National Art School.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Drawing is absolutely central to the National Art School\u2019s curriculum. While the heritage and traditions of drawing are important, there are also new ways of seeing through drawing and its impact on making today. We believe that drawing also trains an artist with the skills to articulate ideas.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The prize is acquisitive and open for submissions, with an award of $30,000 for the winning entry.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nas.edu.au\/Whats-On\/news\/dobell-drawing-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More information here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Artist Ben Quilty has been chosen as the judge of the 2019 Dobell Drawing Prize, selecting both the finalists and the winning work.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural exhibition of finalists, which will thereafter become a biennial event, will be presented by NAS Gallery from 28 March to 25 May 2019.<\/p>\n<h2>WHY A DRAWING PRIZE IS NECESSARY<\/h2>\n<p>The new look Dobell Drawing Prize has been designed to be part of a mini-festival of drawing. \u2018You can\u2019t just define the role of drawing with an art prize,\u2019 said Alderton. \u2018We want to flesh out all the different permutations of drawing; we want people to really soak deeply into what drawing can be, and understand it on multiple levels, and to do that you need to create this kind of mini-festival.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Next March, the NAS will present not only an exhibition of the finalists for the prize, but drawing installations and interventions across the NAS campus, a drawing symposium, and masterclasses and lectures which interrogate the state of drawing today.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The medium has changed dramatically \u2013 you can even draw on your iPhone with light. We want to open up that up and show drawing as contemporary, vital and vibrant,\u2019 said Alderton.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018On one level, people think it\u2019s all been done and all been said. But that kind of thinking hasn\u2019t engaged with the role that drawing is currently playing. We want to talk about drawing \u2013 from animation to kinetic work and installation \u2013 and what that interplay into spatial relationships and the physicality of the act of drawing might look like.\u2019<\/p>\n<h2>GENESIS AND GROWTH<\/h2>\n<p>The genesis of the Dobell Drawing Prize (1993-2012) aimed to encourage excellence and draughtsmanship. From 2019, however, the NAS will develop its new approach to the prize.<\/p>\n<p>The Dobell Drawing Prize is not to be confused with the Dobell Drawing Biennale, which is presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Alderton explained. \u2018Theirs is a curated exhibition and ours is a selected prize. We are about diversity and showing more artists.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Dobell Foundation funds both, and is also committed to encouraging the scholarship of new drawing practice by making this prize acquisitive, with work entering the NAS Collection. The finalists\u2019 exhibition will additionally be toured by NAS to regional galleries in late 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Alderton said: \u2018Acquiring the winning work into the NAS Collection is very important for us to see a history of the Drawing Prize and current drawing practice. The exhibition, and ultimately the collection, will become an active teaching tool to show students the formative process of art making, and how that builds into substantial art practice.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Art Director of The Sir William Dobell Art Foundation Paula Latos-Valier AM said: \u2018The Dobell Drawing Prize has many great attributes \u2013 it is very democratic in that any artist can enter and there are no restrictions to subject matter or medium. This freedom from curatorial constraint is a distinguishing feature.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Prize champions the idea of peer group assessment by inviting respected practising artists to select the finalists and determine the prize-winner,\u2019 Latos-Valier added.<\/p>\n<h2>KEY DATES<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Entries open in July 2018 and close 3 September 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner announcement and exhibition launch: Wednesday 27 March 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibition: 28 March \u2013 25 May 2019, NAS Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To apply visit\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nas.edu.au\/Whats-On\/news\/dobell-drawing-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>nas.edu.au<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The National At School is located in Darlinghurst, Sydney.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"small-big content-date\">FIRST PUBLISHED ON\u00a0<time class=\"published pubdate\" datetime=\"2013-03-05 11:11:03-0400\">FRIDAY 13 JULY, 2018<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline: September 3rd, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}