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National paper award wants talent
Arts Hub
Tuesday, February 05, 2008 
 
Australia's National Works on Paper, one of the most prestigious in the 
country, is now calling for talent to enter its 2008 exhibition prize.

There is $45,000 up for grabs the biennial award. Over 40 forty works will 
be chosen from entries submitted from around Australia.

The prize has three components: The John Tallis Acquisitive Award $15,000; 
Mornington Peninsula Regional Shire Acquisition Fund of up to $20,000; and 
Friends of the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Acquisition Fund up 
to $10,000. 

The panel of judges including Susan McCulloch, art critic and publisher of 
The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art; Lisa Roet, artist and 
winner of 2003 National Works on Paper; and Jason Smith, Director, Monash 
Gallery of Art, Melbourne will select works for exhibition and from these 
choose the ultimate winner.

The NWOP was established in 1998 and incorporated the former Spring 
Festival of Drawing and the Prints Acquisitive which began in 1971. It is 
run in conjunction with the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, which 
has one of the foremost collections of works on paper in Australia.

Entries for NWOP prize and exhibition close 10 March 2008. The exhibition 
will run 28 May – 6 July 2008 with the winner and works acquired announced 
at the opening on 31 May 2008.

For more information, visit www.mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au




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