// THE 2017 BLUETHUMB ART PRIZE
Raise your profile. 1st Place wins $10,000.
The 2017 Bluethumb Art Prize is a continuation of our mission to connect artists with art lovers. Back in 2009, we didn’t want Australia to have to wait until our artists made it into a gallery to discover their stories, and so Bluethumb was born. Now in 2017, we’re going one step further with great exposure and a $10,000 prize for the best Bluethumb profile picture.
The 2017 Bluethumb Art Prize is open to all Australian artists. The artwork can be realistic, abstract, a landscape, self-portrait… anything really, as long as it's a signature piece that represents you and your style.
How will you raise your profile with artistic self-expression? Your best feature? Your secret place? Your alter ego?
SEE SHORTLIST
$10,000 2017 Bluethumb Art Prize: Artists, what you need to know.
- First prize wins $10,000 cash. Runner up wins $1,000.
- Entry is free and it is non-acquisitive.
- The winner is selected by the Bluethumb judging panel.
- To enter you must set up a Bluethumb profile (it’s free).
- The artwork selected must be an original piece made by the artist and comply with Bluethumb T&Cs.
- The artwork entered must be currently available for sale on Bluethumb, exclusively.
- Competition opens April 2016. It closes 30 September 2016 (you can change your entry anytime before this date). Finalists are announced 4th November.
- Winners are announced 20th January at the opening of the Bluethumb Art Prize exhibition.
- Art entered may be sold on Bluethumb during the competition. This will not affect judging or your eligibility to win.
- Judging is done online and Bluethumb will shortlist 100 finalists to present to the judging panel. Then each member of the judging panel ranks their top 10 artworks (with 10 being the highest) from the finalists. The scores of each judge are totalled to award first place (highest number of points) and second place.
Nominate A Friend: What you need to know.
- All you have to do is nominate your friend via the form above
- If they enter the competition you automatically go in the draw to win the $5000 worth of Bluethumb art.
- You can ‘enter’ as many times as you like, and each artist you encourage to sign up increases your chances of winning.
- Some rules
- You can’t nominate yourself.
- The artist can’t already be signed up or have previously had an account ie they must be a new artist to Bluethumb.
- It’s a random draw prize, so you can win, even if your artist(s) don’t.
// JUDGING PANEL
Leigh Robb
Leigh Robb is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Galle...
Leigh Robb
Leigh Robb is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Previously she worked as the Curator at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA); Thomas Dane Gallery, London; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Robb undertook her BA in Art History & Psychology at the University of Queensland, Brisbane and her Masters in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Robb has curated numerous solo exhibitions of artists including Tracey Moffatt; Richard Bell; John Gerrard; Thomas Rentmeister; Jeppe Hein; Tarryn Gill & Pilar Mata Dupont; Erin Coates; Consuelo Cavaniglia, as well as international group exhibitions including Dead Ringer; What I see When I look at Sound; One Place After Another: AC4CA; First Amongst Equals (Part I & II); and Love of Diagrams. Her curatorial collaborations include Alternating Currents - Japanese Art After March 2011 and Hijacked III: Contemporary Photography from Australia & the UK and Epic Narratives.
Penny Griggs
Penny Griggs has dedicated her career to the arts industry. Cu...
Penny Griggs
Penny Griggs has dedicated her career to the arts industry. Currently the General Manager of SALA (South Australian Living Artists Festival) she has enjoyed a diverse career having worked for some of Australia's flagship arts organisations including Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC), Adelaide Festival Centre and Carclew Youth Arts Centre. She has extensive experience working on Festivals including Adelaide Cabaret Festival, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide International Guitar Festival, Come Out Children’s Festival and the Adelaide Festival. She is also a registered Civil Celebrant.
Greg Ackland
Gregory Ackland is Principal Lecturer – Visual Art, and Studio...
Greg Ackland
Gregory Ackland is Principal Lecturer – Visual Art, and Studio Head of Photography and Digital Media with Adelaide College of the Arts. He is an artist, interested in digital media practices, conceptual photography and the moving image. He is influenced by the history of landscape painting and philosophy, in particular how experience might be rendered in an image. He is a represented artist with Hill Smith Gallery, South Australia.
Gina Liano
Gina Liano is a Criminal Barrister, a qualified Art Curator an...
Gina Liano
Gina Liano is a Criminal Barrister, a qualified Art Curator and mother of two. Gina is also part of a fashion dynasty she helped to build; renowned Australian designers Bettina Liano and TL Wood are her sisters. Having launched her autobiography and a shoe line, this busy barrister has somehow managed to find the time to develop a new perfume range, star in the Real Housewives of Melbourne, appear on the long-running serial Neighbours and be a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice. Gina is also an Ambassador for the Cancer Council of Victoria, a position she holds dearly due to her own battle with the disease.
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