Broken Hill Outback Open Art Prize 2013 winner announced on 5 July

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As mentioned yesterday, the annual Broken Hill Outback Open Art Prize exhibition is on again, and everyone is welcome.

Final judging of the 44 finalists for the 2013 Broken Hill Outback Open Art Prize is to be held later today at the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery (BHRAG).  The judge this year is Brad Franks, Manager of the Musswellbrook Regional Art Centre.  The winners will be announced at the BHRAG this evening, Friday 5 July at the official opening which follows the judging.  Everyone is welcome to attend the opening, which starts at 6pm.  The winner will be announced by Brad at around 6.30pm.

Address: 404 - 408 Argent Street, Broken Hill  NSW  2880

The BHRAG is open daily.  Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am - 4pm.

Entry by gold coin donation.

Enquiries - 08 8080 3440

Note:
For details of the winning entries, see my story in the post after this one, or via the link to this post here.

The exhibition of the shortlisted entries and of course the winning entry will then be on show at BHRAG from 6 July until 18 August 2013.

Rick Ball with his winning entry for the
Outback Open Art Prize 2012
"The Land - Broken Hill and Darling River"
Photo courtesy Cathy Farry - Manager BHRAG

Rick Ball won the 2012 Outback Open Art Prize.  I wrote an article about it at the time, see link to that 7 August 2012 post here.

There will be two other exhibitions on at the same time as the Outback Open Art Prize exhibition.

'Life' by West Australian raised indigenous artist David Dowden and 'Silver City Highway' by Wentworth artist Steve Mars. Both these exhibitions will run from 6 July to 11 August 2013. Further details of these exhibitions can be found on the BHRAG website see link here.

Cheers, Jane D

ABC Broken Hill talks to Rick Ball winner Outback Open Art Prize

Cropped photo of Rick by a
family friend of his from Colombia

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See link here to read the ABC Broken Hill article by Cherie McDonald about Rick Ball, the winner of the 2012 Outback Open Art Prize, awarded last Friday 3^rd August 2012. 

(The link above no longer appears to be working correctly, so try this link here to see the basic text of the above article, or search for 'Rick Ball' after going to the ABC Broken Hill website via the above link which has been redirected to ABC SA Country Hour).

See my post of 7^th August 2012 for further details about this recent important local event.

Rick has now provided me with a high resolution image (see below) of his winning artwork -

“The Land - Broken Hill and Darling River”. 

It really is quite a striking artwork.  Very impressive and a worthy winner.  Once again, well done Rick Ball.

Cheers, Jane D

2012 Annual Outback Open Art Prize Winner Rick Ball of Broken Hill

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Broken Hill artist Rick Ball has won the coveted 2012 Outback Open Art Prize after coming runner-up in 2009.  The thrilled, well known local artist is in high demand as people seek to hear his story about his impressive oil and pigment on linen winning diptych (2 panel) piece “The Land - Broken Hill and Darling River”.  The story was front page news on today’s Barrier Daily Truth, and I believe ABC Broken Hill is ‘working up’ a radio piece as well.



Rick Ball with "The Land - Broken Hill and Darling River" (photo by Cathy Farry)



The annual “Outback Open Art Prize” has been offered since 1994.  Rick has won the acquisitive $15,000 prize, and in return, the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery has acquired the winning work for display in its already impressive collection.

Deb Wall from the Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery judged the competition which saw Northern Territory (Utopia region) artist Margaret Loy Pula win the non-acquisitive Second Prize of $2,500 with her acrylic on linen painting “Anatye” (Bush Potato) and Merimbula NSW artist Kathryn Hede win the $800 Encouragement Award with her oil on canvas “Rainy Landscape”.

As noted previously the exhibition runs from 4^th August until 23^rd September 2012 at the 

Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery -

404-408 Argent Street, Broken Hill NSW 2880, Australia

Opening hours are 10 am – 5 pm daily.  Entry is by gold coin donation.

Darren Parker from the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery kindly emailed me the catalogue of the 38 shortlisted works – some really impressive pieces (thanks Darren, I appreciate your help).

Congratulations to the prize winners, especially Rick.

Cheers, Jane D