Solar Art Prize is selling art at the Prospect Spring Fair this October to help fund the prize in 2019.
And who is sponsoring the booth? None other than Natural Technology Systems, the solar product guys who have backed the Solar Art Prize with major prizes of solar products since 2009.
Previous winners from the first nine years of the Solar Art Prize – Caring For Our Planet competition who are members of the Royal South Australian Society of the Arts Inc are exhibiting at the Rising Sun Inn from 10 July to 15 September.
Come along to the Rising Sun Inn at 60 Bridge Street Kensington, Mondays and Tuesdays 4:00pm to 11:30pm and Wednesdays to Saturdays 12pm to 11:30pm to view imaginative exciting works from all over South Australia.
Exhibitors are Janet Ayliffe, Bev Bills, Shelly David-Smith, Bob Landt, David Lawruk, Cat Leonard, Kimberley McGarr, Frey Micklethwait, Uta Mooney, Adam Opala, Alan Ramachandran, Maggie Rees, Babs Sinclair, Tony Smith, Brooke Walker, Jing Wei, Andrea Wyatt, and the prize curator Pip Fletcher.
The winner of the People’s Choice award for the 2018 Solar Art Prize was announced at the end of the exhibition on 17 June 2018: Congratulations to Paul Whitehead with Tasmanian Mist – Lake King William Oils
Founder, donor, coordinator and curator of the Solar Art Prize, Pip Fletcher, thanks everyone involved for entering their works of art, all the behind-the-scenes work particularly by Bev Bills, and everyone who came along to the opening, especially The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Martin Haese, who opened the 2017 Solar Art Prize, and the Honourable Dr Susan Close, MP, who opened the 2018 Solar Art Prize.
The exhibition runs until 17 June in the first floor of the Institute Building on the corner of North Terrace and Kintore Street.
RSASA Director Bev Bills OAM, Solar Art Prize coordinator Pip Fletcher, Hon Susan Close MP, Rt Hon Lord Mayor Martin Haese, at the opening of the 2018 Solar Art Prize exhibition
Hon. Susan Close MP presenting Mirjana Dobson with first overall prize for the 2018 Solar Art Prize competition.Mirjana Dobson Synthetic Organisms Ceramic mixed media glaze glass, 40 x 40 x 3cm
Hon. Susan Close MP presenting Frey Micklethwait with second overall prize for the 2018 Solar Art Prize competition.Frey Micklethwait The Tree of Strife Oil on panel & wood 360 x 30cm
Hon. Susan Close MP presenting Alan Ramachandran with first prize in the Wild Fauna/Flora section of the 2018 Solar Art PrizeAlan Ramachandran ‘In the Fleurieu’, Ink on paper 65 x 90cm
Hon. Susan Close presenting Jingwei Bu with second prize in the Wild Fauna and Flora section of the 2018 Solar Art PrizeJingwei Bu ‘Cockatoo Smile’ Archival giclee print on cotton rag. 79 x 104cm
Cat Leonard ‘Tree of modernised Life’ Mixed media on canvas 60 x 40cmHon. Susan Close MP presenting the prize for second place in the Public Responsibility section to Cat Leonard