The 3rd Trades Hall Arts Prize is now open for entries – opening night 1st October.
The Trades Hall Art Prize seeks to support the arts, workers, arts-workers, art by workers and art about working life. An annual Arts Prize, hosted in Paddy’s Gallery.
This prize is intended to support artists as workers and to appropriately compensate artists of all experience levels and backgrounds – you don’t have to be a full-time artist to enter. Art is for everyone.
Create Against the Machine
The theme of this year’s prize is Create Against the Machine.
From the “Saboteurs” jamming up machinery with wooden clogs and “Luddites” opposing mechanisation of skilled work, to “mouse jiggers” today, we invite artists to explore themes of worker surveillance, control, automation and resistance.
Artists are invited to create work in any medium exploring themes of workplace-surveillance, technological change and worker resistance, throughout history and today.
All artists – professional, emerging and beginner – are invited to create work and submit it to the prize. 10 artworks will be selected to be exhibited in Paddy’s Gallery as part on Melbourne Fringe Festival in October and into November.
The winning artist will take home $5,000 and the piece will become part of Trades Hall’s permanent collection.
The 9 other finalists will receive $750 for their entry and loaning of their piece for the duration of the exhibition which will be on display throughout Melbourne Fringe Festival.
There is no limitation – use which every medium you like, it just needs to fit in Paddy’s Gallery.
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