Basil sellers Art prize.

ON YOUR MARKS!
Sport inspires strong passions. Throughout the history of Australian art a wide variety of social, psychological and cultural concerns have been tackled in the name of sport. Winners and losers, rules and penalties, fans and souvenirs, triumphs, scandals and nation-building are just some of many crossovers between art and sport, brought together in the Basil Sellers Art Prize.
Submissions for the Basil Sellers Art Prize close 24 July 2009
This prize is supported by Mr Basil Sellers AM, who wishes to encourage contemporary artists to engage with the many themes within sport and promote critical reflection on all forms of sport and sporting culture in Australia.
The $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize will be awarded in August 2010, in conjunction with an exhibition of finalists’ work at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne. Finalists will receive a $3,000 participation fee. A further prize of $5,000 will be awarded to one of the exhibiting finalists on the basis of votes in the People’s Choice Award.
This is the second biannual award in a ten-year cycle. Over the life of the Basil Sellers Art Prize, we hope to change perceptions of the relationship between sport and art.
For further information contact Andrea Bell at the Ian Potter Museum of Art:
T: 03 8344 3014
E: basilsellers-artprize@unimelb.edu.au
 
Downloadable entry form and conditions of entry available at:
www.sellersartprize.com.au
 
To review the 2008 prize and exhibition see:
www.sellersartprize.com.au/prize-and-exhibition/