Competition - "A Smorgasbord of Port Fairy Art"
As part of the August Winter Weekend in Port Fairy the Whale Bone Gallery will be staging a special exhibition by a collective of 20 local artists. Each artist has been invited to paint, on a 40 x 30 cm canvas, their interpretation of an image selected from a range of photographs taken of some iconic Port Fairy scenes.
When the twenty finished paintings have been returned by the artists they will be assembled into a collage and mounted, in a 5 x 4 matrix, at the Whale Bone Gallery in an arrangement determined by one of the gallery's members who will effectively serve as the judge for an associated competition surrounding the collage.
Members of the public are encouraged to have their say in how the paintings should best be assembled in order to create the most pleasing collage to the eye. They can do this by submitting an entry form laying out the equivalent photos (depicted above) in their preferred arrangement.
The finished paintings will be assembled by the judge on Thursday 4th August 2011 and the final collage opened to the public on the afternoon of Friday 5th August and then throughout the ensuing weekend.
The person whose entry best matches the judge's arrangement will win a photograph taken of the winning paintings as they are assembled on the Gallery wall.
Final assembly revealed (click to see final collage assembly)
The artists linked with the paintings they produced
Results of competition: As no entries were received in this competition, no prize was awarded.
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The artists and what image they chose to paint
Exhibition sponsors
The Art Exhibition and associated competition is sponsored by the Port Fairy Day Spa and The Spice Nook.
The Winter Weekends Committee is grateful for the support provided.
Contact the Port Fairy Day Spa 5568 1161
Contact the Spice Nook 5568 1300
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Each entrants will be limited to one entry only. If more than one entry is received from a person then the first one opened will be deeemd to be their valid entry.
All entry forms must be lodged by attachment to an email (as a pdf file) or deposited in the box (printed copy) at the Whale Bone Gallery before the Closing Date and Time for the competition (4 pm on Thursday 4th August 2011).
The entry form(s) must contain all 20 images properly relocated, according to the entrants choice in the lower matrix of the Entry Form.
The entrant must complete the personal details (Name and phone number and preferably an email address) at the foot of the Entry Form.
If an entry matches exactly the arrangement of the judge then they will go into the "prize pool". If only one entry matches the judge's selection then that will be declared the winning entry. If more than one entry matches the judge's selection then the winning entry will be declared by ballot drawn from entries in the prize pool.
If no entry matches exactly that of the judge then the one that comes closest to a match, as determined by the judge, will be declared the winner.
The decision of the judge will be final.
The prize, a mounted photograph taken of the final assembly of paintings, will be delivered to the winning entrant within two weeks following the closing date and time of the competition.
Entrants are advised the the artists have been given the licence to depict the images in whole or part so, although the finished paintings will loosely resemble the photographs they may not portray an exact likeness to the original photograph.
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