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THE Maffra Men’s Probus Club will meet this morning, (Tuesday, August 9) at 9.45am in the Senior Citizen’s rooms, Pearson Street, Maffra. The guest speaker is the the Chairman of
Local artist Klara Jones’ work ‘Early Morning in Lockdown’.
Images: Gippsland Art Gallery
the Maffra Recreation Reserve committee of
Tasmanian artist Raymond Arnold’s work ‘To see the bones and the tombstone at once/Huon pine’. Arnold is one of 47 finalists in this year’s John Leslie Art Prize.
Art finalists announced
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THE Rotary Club of Maffra barbecue will be held on Saturday, August 13 outside
GIPPSLAND Art Gallery has announced this year’s finalists for the $20,000 John Leslie Art Prize for landscape painting. A total of 455 entries were received for the coveted national prize from all states and territories, with artists having the option to enter up to two paintings each. In 2022, a total of 50 paintings have been shortlisted by 47 artists. The shortlist was selected by a panel comprising of art historian, writer and curator Dr Sheridan Palmer; gallery director Simon Gregg; and the gallery’s associate curator, Melanie Caple. Entries include works by leading and emerging artists from around Australia, spanning a wide range of styles and approaches from the field of contemporary landscape painting. Each of the finalists will be vying for the $20,000 acquisitive first prize, to be announced at Gippsland Art Gallery’s Spring Season Launch by Wellington Shire Council Mayor Ian Bye. A second, non-acquisitive prize of $1000 will also be awarded to the Best Gippsland Work.
Woolworths supermarket, Johnson Street, Maffra, from 10am until 12noon. Please come along and buy a sausage to help support the Maffra community.
THE Maffra Men’s Shed has bags of kindling for sale at $8 a bag. These are available from the Maffra Men’s Shed, Gibney Street, Maffra which is open each Tuesday and Thursday from 9am until 12noon.
FULL LIST OF FINALISTS: Raymond Arnold (TAS) Min-Woo Bang (NSW) Peter Baylor (VIC) Jo Bertini (NSW) Peter Cameron (NSW) Donovan Christie (SA) Ash Coates (VIC) Geoff Coleman (VIC) Peter Daverington (VIC) Kate Douglas (QLD) Jeremy Elkington (VIC) Brett Ferry (VIC)
Sara Freeman (ACT) Jennifer Goodman (VIC) Alizon Gray (VIC) Ross Halfacree (NSW) Andrea Hopgood (VIC) Sue Jarvis (VIC) Dylan Jones (QLD) Klara Jones (VIC) Melissa Kenihan (VIC) Claire Kirkup (VIC) Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray (NT) Robert Maclaurin (VIC)
Harley Manifold (VIC) Jennifer Marshall (TAS) Jarrad Martyn (VIC) Kerry McInnis (NSW) Frank Mesaric (VIC) Gary Miles (VIC) Saffron Newey (VIC) Eleanor Noir (SA) David O’Brien (VIC) Margaret Parker (VIC) Annika Romeyn (ACT) Maree T Thomson (VIC) J Valenzuela Didi (QLD)
The winners will add their names to the growing Hall of Fame for the prize, and cement their place in Gippsland art history. The biennial John Leslie Art Prize is one of Australia’s most prestigious prizes for landscape painting. The Prize was inaugurated in 2000 and is named after the gallery’s patron, John Leslie OBE, who died in 2016.
Judith Van Heeren (VIC) Nina Volk (VIC) Julie Ward (VIC) Darren Wardle (VIC) Brett Weir (VIC) Naomi White (QLD) Vyvian Wilson (NSW) Greg Wood (VIC) Richard Young (VIC) Lucila Zentner (NSW).
The continuation of this $20,000 acquisitive prize is made possible through the ongoing support of the John Leslie Foundation. The Spring Season Launch will be held on Friday, September 9 from 6pm. An image gallery of all of the shortlisted paintings can be viewed on the gallery’s website at www. gippslandartgallery.com
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