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Olive Cotton Award

for photographic portraiture

An award for excellence in photographic portraiture

dedicated by her family to the memory of Olive Cotton,

one of Australia's leading 20th century photographers.

Exhibition Dates: 7 August to 27 September 2015

Entries close: 5.00pm Friday 5 June 2015

First Prize: $20,000 (acquisitive) Directors Choice Acquisitions: $4,000 Peoples Choice Award: $250

Judge: Stephen Dupont, Photographer

Olive Cotton Award 2015 Entry Form and Entrants Declaration

Tweed Shire Council ABN: 90 178 732 498 PO Box 816 MURWILLUMBAH NSW 2484 This entry form becomes a TAX INVOICE upon receipt of payment. No receipts are issued keep a COPY for your reference

Post / deliver your completed entry form by 5pm Friday 5 June 2015

Olive Cotton Award OR Olive Cotton Award Tweed Regional Gallery Tweed Regional Gallery PO Box 816 2 Mistral Road MURWILLUMBAH NSW 2484 MURWILLUMBAH SOUTH NSW 2484

INFORMATION SUPPLIED IS USED TO CHECK ELIGIBILITY, ASSESS ENTRIES AND COMPILE THE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

Title First name Surname Year of birth

Postal address

Post Code

Tel

Mob

Email

I live and work in

State

Gallery credit (if applicable)

State

Entry Title

Medium Year

Completed

My entry is submitted as: a small scale print a rephotographed/scanned copy OR a digital file on CD uploaded

Retail price $ inclusive of your printing framing & freight costs, GST & 27% Gallery commission

Any other information

IF SELECTED I will supply the following sized entry, ready to hang (dimensions to nearest centimetre)

FRAMED WORK dimensions incl. frame Height (cm) x Width (cm) (maximum 100x150cm or 150x100cm)

OR UNFRAMED WORK - exterior dimensions of paper Height (cm) x Width (cm) (maximum 100x80cm or 80x100cm)

and dimensions of image Height (cm) x Width (cm)

I declare that I have read the Olive Cotton Award 2015 - Conditions of Entry and my entry satisfies these conditions.

I am the owner and creator of the above entry which has been completed since 1 April 2013 and has not been exhibited elsewhere.

If selected for exhibition I undertake to supply the completed artwork, ready to hang as per the Olive Cotton Awards 2015 -

Conditions of Entry and to the specifications supplied on this entry form.

I undertake responsibility for all costs and arrangements for transport of my entry to and from the Gallery within the specified dates.

If selected for exhibition, I agree to my work being reproduced in electronic or print media, advertising or other publications for the purposes of publicity of the Olive Cotton Award and Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre.

Entrants signature Date

OFFICE USE Visa MC EFT Cash Chq / MO# Receipt# Date Initials PRINT CD Data AB SH DC

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PAYMENT OF ENTRY FEE $33.00 incl GST.

I am paying by Cash or EFTPOS in person only

Cheque/Money Order to Tweed Regional Gallery

Please charge Visa / Mastercard number:

Please attach to back of Entry Print / CD sleeve

Name Tel.

Address

Entry title

Name on card: Medium

Expiry Date: Exhibition Print is Framed Unframed

Signature Size of completed exhibition print incl. frame H x Wcm

8) DELIVERY and COLLECTION:

DELIVERY: Finalists entries must be delivered to the Gallery, ready to hang, between

Monday 20 and Sunday 26 July 2015. To aid with identification please clearly

mark the outside of parcels with Entrant Name and attach a label to the back of the

artwork listing Artists Name, Address, Phone Number and Entry Title.

COLLECTION: All exhibited entries not sold or acquired must be collected by Sunday

18 October 2015. Entries requiring repackaging will be available from Wednesday 14

October 2015. Entries for personal collection, which dont require repackaging, may be

collected from Thursday 1 October 2015.

All transport arrangements and costs to and from the Gallery, including insurance, are

the responsibility of the entrant. The Gallery will take all care, but can accept no

responsibility for damaged work. Address labels and instructions for return must be

supplied - eg. pre-paid postage, freight dockets etc. .

9) SALES: All exhibited entries must be for sale including 27% Gallery commission

and GST. Eg: $100 retail = $73 nett to the artist and $27 commission & GST to the

Gallery. In order to receive payment for art sales exhibitors are required to submit an

invoice to Tweed Shire Council. Invoicing requirements will be advised.

10) EXHIBITION, JUDGING AND ANNOUNCEMENT:

The exhibition of finalists will be shown at the Tweed Regional Gallery from

Friday 7 August to Sunday 27 September 2015. Judging is scheduled for Friday 7

August. The Gallery will attempt to contact winners so they can make arrangements to

attend the Opening. Winners will be announced at the official exhibition opening on

Saturday 8 August 2015, at 5.00 for 5.30pm speeches.

11) The $20,000 first prize is acquisitive and the winning entry passes directly into

the permanent collection of the Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre.

In order to receive payment the winner is required to submit an invoice to Tweed Shire

Council. Invoicing requirements will be advised.

12) The Friends of Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre Inc. fund

Directors Choice Awards (purchase acquisitions) to the value of $4,000 as well as a

$250 Peoples Choice Award. In order to receive payment, winners are required to

submit an invoice to Tweed Shire Council. Invoicing requirements will be advised.

13) REPRODUCTION OF IMAGES:

GALLERY Entries selected for exhibition may be reproduced, with applicable artist

credit line, in print and electronic media - including, but not limited to, exhibition

catalogues, entry forms, information sheets and online - for the purposes of publicity

and promotion of the Olive Cotton Award. Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre reserves the right to reproduce any finalist in subsequent publications by the

Gallery in relation to the Award and to reproduce the prize winner and any further

acquisitions in relation to the Gallerys Permanent Collection. ENTRANTS may include their entry image on their personal website or social media

after pre-selection but the Gallery requests finalists images not be included on a

commercial website prior to the exhibition period.

14) The decision of the Judge is final, in both the pre-selection and final judging,

and no discussion shall be entered into. The Director, Tweed Regional Gallery,

reserves the right to make the final decision in respect of any issue relating to the

organisation and administration of the Award.

This document is available at artgallery.tweed.nsw.gov.au/PrizesAndAwards/OliveCotton

OLIVE COTTON AWARD 2015 - CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

1) ENTRANT ELIGIBILITY:

The Olive Cotton Award is open to artists living and working in Australia who are

Australian citizens or have been Australian residents for 12 months or more.

The 2013 Olive Cotton Award winner is excluded from entering the 2015 Award.

2) ENTRY ELIGIBILITY: Entry must be:

A new portrait completed since 1 April 2013, owned and created by the artist; not

previously exhibited, including online, shown in competitions or awarded a prize;

Photographic, archivally sound, still and two-dimensional;

Within the size limits and able to be hung on or pinned to Gallery walls.

The Judge will be looking for excellence in photographic technique, creativity and

originality to the standards prescribed by the Director, Tweed Regional Gallery.

3) ENTRY FEE AND DUE DATE:

Entry is limited to ONE per person. The entry fee is $33.00 (incl. GST), not refundable

under any circumstances. Entry form, fee and image must be received, or postmarked

by Australia Post, by 5.00pm Friday 5 June 2015.

4) SUBMITTING YOUR IMAGE: Entry can be submitted either as: a print of your

finished work; or a digital file on CD. Entry prints and CDs will not be returned.

AN ENTRY PRINT is to be a small scale print minimum size 12 x 17cm and maximum

size 21 x 29.7cm (A4), presented unframed and unmounted. Entry must be clearly

identified on the back with Artists Name, Address, Entry Title, Medium and Finished

Size as Height in cm x Width in cm. Please use the label supplied with the entry form.

A DIGITAL FILE must be a JPEG or TIFF file, no more than 4MB, and named:

SURNAME_first name_image title Please attach the identification label to CD

sleeve/case and include an A4 print out of your image also.

5) SIZE LIMITS AND FRAMING:

Your entry form must contain your best estimate of finished size, in centimetres, in compliance with Condition 7 size limits and framing requirements for exhibition.

6) A PRE-SELECTION will be conducted at which the Judge will view all entries and

select approximately 80 artworks for exhibition. The Judge will be looking for work that

fulfils the Conditions of Entry, in particular Conditions 2, 4, 5 and 7.

The exhibition selection will be posted to the Gallerys website on Friday 26 June 2015

at artgallery.tweed.nsw.gov.au/PrizesAndAwards/OliveCotton

The Gallery will also advise entrants of the selection outcome by email.

CONDITIONS 7 - 14 - APPLY TO ENTRIES SELECTED FOR EXHIBITION

7) SIZE LIMITS, FRAMING AND DISPLAY FOR SELECTED ENTRIES

For ALL ENTRIES the minimum image size is 20cm x 20cm.

FRAMED WORK The maximum finished size, including frame and any protuberances

is either 100cm high x 150cm wide OR 150cm high x 100cm wide. Work must be

framed to professional standards and ready to hang with D-rings attached to rear of

work, 6cm down from the top, on both sides of the frame. Please dont attach strings or

wires. For safer travel and ease of handling please consider using Perspex glazing.

UNFRAMED WORK The maximum finished size is 100cm high x 80cm wide OR

80cm high x 100cm wide including any border or handling area. Unframed work is

accepted only where this presentation is integral to the artwork.

Unframed work will be hung using pins or as the Gallery sees fit.

While care is taken, unframed works are submitted at the

entrants risk.

The Gallery reserves the right to not display any work

considered unsafe or unsuitable for public display.

Requests to submit an entry outside these parameters

may be made in writing by 5.00pm Friday 22 May 2015.

Tweed Regional Gallery thanks the family of

Olive Cotton and the Friends of Tweed Regional Gallery

& Margaret Olley Art Centre Inc. for their generous

ongoing financial support of this award

KEY DATES | Olive Cotton Award 2015

ENTRIES CLOSE 5.00pm Friday 5 June 2015

Completed entry form, entry fee and entry image must be received or

postmarked by Australia Post by this time.

PRE-SELECTION results published online on Friday 26 June 2015 at

artgallery.tweed.nsw.gov.au/PrizesAndAwards/OliveCotton

FINALISTS DELIVER EXHIBITION PRINTS

between Monday 20 and Sunday 26 July 2015.

EXHIBITION: Friday 7 August to Sunday 27 September 2015

at the Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah.

OPENING AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF AWARD WINNERS All welcome to

attend: 5.00pm Saturday 8 August 2015 for speeches at 5.30pm.

TRANSPORT Arrangements and costs of artwork transport to and from the

Gallery, including insurance, are the responsibility of the entrant. Upon

conclusion of the exhibition artworks must be collected by 18 October 2015.

Stephen Dupont is a photographer and documentary filmmaker whose work has earned him photographys most prestigious prizes, including a Robert Capa Gold Medal citation from the Overseas Press Club of America; a Bayeux War Correspondents Prize; and first places in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the Australian Walkleys, and Leica/CCP Documentary Award. In 2007 he was the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his ongoing project on Afghanistan. In 2010 he received the Gardner Fellowship at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. Dupont has twice been an official war artist for the Australian War Memorial with commissions in The Solomon Islands (2013) and Afghanistan (2012). He is a Canon Master and frequently lectures and delivers masterclasses and workshops in Australia and around the world.

Olive Cotton (1911-2003) discovered the art of photography during childhood and was committed to the practice throughout her life. After gaining an Arts degree, she worked successfully as a photographer at Max Dupains Sydney studio until the end of World War II. She was married to Dupain from 1937-1939 and then in 1944 married Ross McInerney and moved to the bush near Koorawatha, NSW. For 20 years she had no access to darkroom facilities, but continued taking photographs.

In 1964 Cotton opened a small studio in Cowra and in 1985, after a 40 year absence, re-emerged with her first solo show at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney. She then concentrated on rediscovering and printing her life's work. A major exhibition of Cottons work was shown at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2000.

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