More time for food and wine art
The closing date for the Fleurieu Food + Wine Art Prize has been extended to allow more time for artists to complete their paintings celebrating food and wine.
2006 Fleurieu Art Prize food and wine winner 'Stack of Lamb' (detail), 2006, oil on board, 61 x 74 cm, by Paul Ryan.
The prize is a non-acquisitive art prize run in conjunction with the renowned Fleurieu Art Prize, with $10,000 prize money awarded to the winning painting with a food and wine theme. Artists of all skill levels are invited to enter by the new closing date of March 30.
The Fleurieu Art Prize was established in 1998 by artist David Dridan, businessman Tony Parkinson and the late winemaker Greg Trott, who had the vision of bringing together art, food and wine to celebrate and promote the region to both local and overseas visitors.
It is now known as the richest landscape art prize in the world, with prize money of $65,000 for the winning landscape painting this year. Past competitions have included a section for paintings with a food and wine theme, which has now been separated out as the Fleurieu Food + Wine Art Prize.
2004 winner ‘Royal Gala Performance’, 2003, oil on canvas, 76.0 x 101.0 cm, by Kate Bergin.
Fleurieu Food + Art Prize co-ordinator Jen Wright says the competition has run three times previously in 2004, 2006 and 2011 and attracts more than 500 entrants from all over Australia.
“We are hoping to run the Fleurieu Food + Wine Art Prize as a biennial competition alongside the Fleurieu Art Prize, as it gives us the opportunity to continue the vision of the founders and carry it forward to the future,” she says.
“Just as it is essential for the landscape prize to build its identity, it is equally essential maintain a presence through the Food + Wine Art Prize on the Fleurieu, where it all began.”
2011 winner ‘Anwekety (Bush Plum)’, 2011, acrylic on linen, 121.0 X 121.0 cm, by Gladdy Kemarre.
Judges for the Food + Wine Art Prize include artist and Central School of Art lecturer Chris Orchard, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art director Erica Green, and journalist Anne Fulwood.
Wright says all finalist works will be displayed on the Fleurieu Art Prize website and will be available for sale.
The winner will be announced on June 4 after, which the works can be viewed at the McLaren Vale & Fleurieu Visitors’ Centre, as well as at selected wineries around the region, including Wirra Wirra, Kay Brothers, Hugo Wines, Dog Ridge, Red Poles, Angove, Penny’s Hill and Chapel Hill, from until July 29, 2016.
The winner of the Fleurieu Art Prize for Landscape will be announced on June 2, with the shortlist of artists revealed this week (view the list here).
