Awards

August 2023

Call for Submissions – BigCi Environmental Awards 2023

We are excited to announce that we are once again inviting artists to apply for BigCi Environmental Awards!

Australian and International artists from various fields – visual art, installation, multimedia, performance, literature, music, photography, film making, curating – are invited to submit entries for the BigCi Environmental Awards 2023.

Two Winners of the Awards will each receive (4) free weeks of BigCi residency and $4,000 prize money.

The winning artists will have an opportunity to explore the Wollemi, the Blue Mountains and the Gardens of Stone National Parks on guided walks and will be given research assistance relevant to their projects. At the end of their residencies, they will present their work at a BigCi Open Day event.

The Awards will be judged by an independent panel:

Karen Miranda Abel is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist and environmentalist. She has twice been an Artist in Residence at BigCi and was selected as the 2017-2018 World Heritage Program Artist in Residence at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre in NSW, Australia. The residency culminated in a solo exhibition at the Blue Mountains City Art Gallery in 2018.
Pippa Mott is the Director of Woollahra Gallery. This year, she completed a Fulbright-supported MA in the History of Art & Archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Pippa has extensive experience in the arts and cultural sector, most recently as curator at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona). Leveraging an academic background in archaeology and a track record of art-science exhibitions, material sensibility, interdisciplinarity and accessibility are at the core of her practice.
Dr Rosalie Chapple is Senior Research Fellow in the Transdisciplinary School at the University of Technology Sydney, co-founder of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute and teaches in the Master of Environmental Management at the University of New South Wales Sydney. Rosalie is an animal ecologist with wide-ranging interests and a focus on protected areas and wildlife.

The deadline for submissions is 2 October 2023.
Winners will be announced on 1 November 2023.

There is an entry fee of $35, which must be paid at the time of sending the submission. Entry fees are not refundable.

For the SUBMISSION FORM & GUIDELINES, see

BigCi Environmental Awards 2023-Submission Form

 

 

July 2023
BigCi / Arte Laguna Prize Collaboration

 

All artists applying for Arte Laguna Prize 18 can also make submissions to win a free 4-week residency at BigCi.

Arte Laguna Prize is a contest that welcomes artists of any age, country and artistic background, without gender differences and with a free theme.
The contest offers many opportunities to the participants to increase their network, get global visibility, as well as access to important resources for career development.
The contest is judged by a panel of international jurors composed of prominent curators and museum directors from different countries.
You can win a cash prize of € 10,000 and exhibit in Venice (Italy) at the Arsenale Nord.
More information and application link:
https://artelagunaprize.com/18th-edition-23-24/

Application deadline is 26 October 2023.

November 2022

September 2022
Call for Submissions – BigCi Environmental Awards 2022

We are excited to announce that we are once again inviting artists to apply for BigCi Environmental Awards!

Australian and International artists from various fields – visual art, installation, multimedia, performance, literature, music, photography, film making, curating – are invited to submit entries for the BigCi Environmental Awards 2022.

Two Winners of the Awards will each receive four free weeks of BigCi residency and $4,000 prize money. 

The winning artists will have an opportunity to explore the Wollemi, the Blue Mountains and the Gardens of Stone National Parks on guided walks and will be given research assistance relevant to their projects. At the end of their residencies, they will present their work at a BigCi Open Day event.

The Awards will be judged by an independent panel:

Jemila MacEwan, a New York based interdisciplinary environmental artist. She was a winner of 2021 BigCi Environmental Award.
Sabrina Roesner, a Blue Mountains based arts leader and artistic program manager.
Ryan Andrew Lee, a cinematographer and artist. He was a winner of 2021 BigCi Environmental Award.
Richard Morecroft, a nationally known broadcaster, visual arts interviewer, author and mixed media maker, with a long-standing environmental commitment.

The deadline for submissions is 4th of November 2022.
Winners will be announced on 26th of November 2022.

There is an entry fee of $35, which must be paid at the time of sending the submission. Entry fees are not refundable. They will be used to support these Awards and other BigCi artist-in-residence programs.

For the SUBMISSION FORM & GUIDELINES, see

BigCi Environmental Awards 2022-Submission Form

August 2022
BigCi / Arte Laguna Prize Collaboration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All artists applying for Arte Laguna Prize 17 can also make submissions to win a free 4-week residency at BigCi.
Arte Laguna Prize is the international competition, with international jurors, dedicated to visual arts and design that gives artists the opportunity to join a large network of collaborations, get free visibility and sell their works on the online platform Arte Laguna World, win a cash prize of € 10,000, exhibit in Venice (Italy) at the Arsenale Nord.
The Prize is open to the following artistic disciplines: painting, sculpture and installation, photographic art, video art and short films, performance, digital art, digital graphics and cartoon, environmental and land art, urban art and street art, art design.

Application link: https://artelagunaprize.com/17-edition-applications/

Application deadline is 31 October 2022.

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January 2021
Call for Submissions – BigCi Environmental Awards 2021

BigCi is excited to announce we are once again inviting artists to apply for our annual Environmental Awards!

Australian artists from various fields – visual art, installation, multimedia, performance, literature, music, photography, film making, curating – are invited to submit entries for the BigCi Environmental Awards 2021.

The Awards will be judged by an independent panel:

Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Chris Tobin, Darug Elder, Artist, and Cultural Educator
Lisa Cox, Environmental Reporter, The Guardian Australia

The judges will select two winners, who will each receive 4 free weeks of BigCi residency, as well as $3,000 prize money. 

There are no entry fees.

The winners of the award will have an opportunity to explore the Wollemi, the Blue Mountains and the Gardens of Stone National Parks on guided walks and will be given research assistance relevant to their projects. At the end of their residencies, they will present their work at a BigCi Open Day event.

The deadline for submissions is 12th of February 2021.
Winners will be announced on 2nd of March 2021.

For the SUBMISSION FORM & GUIDELINES, see

BigCi Environmental Awards 2021-Submission Form

March 2020

February 2020
BigCi Environmental Awards 2020 – Judges Announced

See the News post below for the Awards outline.

For the SUBMISSION FORM & GUIDELINES, see
BigCi Environmental Award 2020 Submission Form

The Awards will be judged by an independent panel of judges:

Tom Zubrycki is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with a deep interest in theenvironment.  Tom’s documentaries have focused around a personal response to the issues of the day.  Tom has directed 17 documentaries and produced another 20 with mainly new and emerging directors. Tom is a recipient of the Stanley Hawes Award “In recognition of outstanding contribution to documentary filmmaking in Australia”.
More information is on his website. www.tomzubrycki.com

Dr Kate Bishop is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her background in environment-behavior research underpins her teaching, research and design. She worked in private industry and government before becoming an academic. She is the author of a number of books. Addressing the challenges of climate change, urbanisation, and people and place relationships is central to all her work.

Carlotta Brunetti is an Italian/German land artist with a long established art practice. Her projects are installed all around the world. During her vibrant carrier, Carlotta received numerous awards, grants and scholarships and was a participant in Istanbul Biennial 2011 and 2017.
She has been a member of several juries.
Carlotta undertook residencies in Taiwan, I- Park, USA and BigCi (in 2012). Apart from being a judge of this Award, she will also present a lecture at the next BigCi Open Day on 8th March 2020. More information is on her website www.carlotta-brunetti.de

January 2020
Call for Submissions – BigCi Environmental Awards 2020
Australian and International Artists from various fields – visual art, installation, multimedia, performance, literature, music, photography, film making, curating – are invited to submit entries for the BigCi Environmental Awards 2020.

Submission Criteria
Your submission must show how you will respond to the environmental issues of the day using your chosen medium. Relevance to our location on the edge of the Wollemi National Park in the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Greater Blue Mountains is essential. The Greater Blue Mountains is an area of stunning scenic beauty, with its own unique flora, fauna and geomorphology. BigCi is located only 1.5 hours drive from Sydney, Australia’s biggest city, yet it is in a dramatically different world.
We are looking for inspirational projects that will be executed within the residency time frame. You can choose to deal with relevant environmental or natural science issues, explore ideas and concepts related to nature, or use this opportunity to creatively respond to the unique wilderness on our doorstep and the current challenges it faces.
The focus of the Award is on the environment. This is open to a wide range of interpretations, allowing you to work on aspects that are of most interest to you and fit best with your artistic practice.

Award Information

The two winning artists will each receive (4) free weeks of BigCi residency and AUD$2,500 spending money. In addition to that, up to AUD$2,000 travel subsidy will be shared between the two winners.
The winners of the award will have an opportunity to explore the Wollemi, the Blue Mountains and the Gardens of Stone National Parks on guided walks and will be given research assistance relevant to their projects. At the end of their residencies, they will present their work at BigCi Open Day.
There is an entry fee of AUD$30 that must be paid at the time of sending the submission. Entry fees are not refundable. They will be used to support these Awards and other BigCi artist-in-residence programs.
Submissions deadline is 29th of February 2020.
Winners announcement date is 20 of MARCH 2020.
For the SUBMISSION FORM & GUIDELINES, see
BigCi Environmental Award 2020 Submission Form

FOR PREVIOUS YEARS’ AWARDS PLEASE SEE UNDER ‘NEWS’
https://bigci.org/new-news/