Join us this Wednesday at noon for the 2012 Student Acquisitive Art Prize

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We hope you can join us this Wednesday at 12 noon in the Trapezium Gallery for the 2012 Student Acquisitive Art Prize. Come along and find out who this year's winners are, and join us for light refreshments and a celebration of the achievements of all the exhibiting artists.

Best of the Best: The Student Acquisitive Art Prize

some of the works on display in this year's Student Acquisitive Art Prize: click for a larger image.

The Trapezium Gallery's 2012 exhibition program is off to a flying start with the Student Acquisitive Art Prize, currently on show and running until 4pm Friday the 2nd of March.

This annual exhibition showcases outstanding work from the previous year's graduates, and features work from the painting, photography, drawing, ceramic and printmaking studios. The selected artists have been chosen for their skill and imagination in their chosen media, as well as their professional approach to their art practice.

The College will purchase work from this exhibition for the permanent collection, and acquired work will be on display around the College on an ongoing basis.

The celebration event for the exhibition will be held on the 29th of February at 12 noon in the Trapezium Gallery: light refreshments will be served and all are welcome. At this event it will be announced which work has been chosen for purchase.We hope to see you there to help celebrate the achievements of the artists.

Congratulations to Barbara Kenny, Alexandra Curtis, Jon Pritchard, Michael Sharpe, Natalie Horvat, Emma Smith, Alexander Zou, Ruma Hort, Bruni Guenther-Tsapilis, Shannon Ring, Simon Cook, Shinhye Choi and Charles Hadfield for their inclusion in this exhibition.

Di Holdsworth at Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest

'Pygmalion', 2006, kinetic collage assemblage, 48x39x7cm

Fine Arts teacher Di Holdsworth is showing in a group exhibition at the Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest. The exhibition runs from the 11th of February to the 27th of April.
Join the artists for the opening at the Gallery on the 18th of February from 5pm-7pm.
The following extract is from the PRG website.

Hello Dollies presents a range of artwork by accomplished artists who, from the 1940s until the present day, have identified with the symbolic and psychological resonance of ‘the doll’. From the portrayal of personal despair to the satirical exposé of socio-political issues, the human condition is scrutinized. This exhibition’s starting point is a painting by celebrated artist Joy Hester, whose poignant depiction of Gethsemane, a doll belonging to childless art patron Sunday Reed, will underpin the exhibition’s focus on dolls as human substitutes and holders of desires, hopes, fears and fantasies. 

Artists include: Peter Baka, Penny Byrne, Gunter Christmann, Will Coles, Matt Coyle, Destiny Deacon, Adrienne Doig, Fiona Fenech, Rosalie Gascoigne, Barbara Hanrahan, Di Holdsworth, Linde Ivimey, Kate Just, Deborah Kelly, Alasdair Macintyre, Tracey Moffatt, Mirka Mora, Janet Parker-Smith, Joan Ross, Sally Smart, Kat Smolynec and Peter Spilsbury.