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14th Solar Art Prize Exhibition, 2023

$3,000 voucher for solar products from NTS Prospect

Terry McDermot – “In the presence of time”, acrylic on board, 105 x175cm

14th Solar Art Prize Exhibition, 2023

$3,000 voucher for solar products from NTS Prospect

Susan Baillie “Wind Farm Panorama South Australia”, oil, 51 x 102cm

The leading environmental Art Prize Exhibition for South Australia is about to show off the beauty of nature & challenge us with creative ideas on climate change.

It will showcase the rare, the beautiful & the ugly – both amusing & unusual from one of the rarest plants in the world found in a secret location of South Australia to lovely paintings, textile, sculptures and photos.

14th Solar Art Prize – Caring For Our Planet will be opened by Dr Mark Keppel, Principal Hydrologist for Environment and Water of SA, Phd FRSASA

2:00pm Sunday 26 March 2023

Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery

Level 1, Institute Building

Corner North Terrace and Kintore Avenue, Adelaide

Phone 8232 0450

The exhibition will be held 24 March – 23 April 2023

10:30 – 3:30 weekdays and 1:00 – 3:30 weekends

Closed Public Holidays and Easter

We are delighted to be welcoming entries for the 14th annual Solar Art Prize in South Australia, with $60,000 worth of prizes to be won.

Prizes include a Natural Technology Systems, Prospect voucher for $5,000 worth of fully installed Solar Q Cell Panels / solar hot water / battery / low power refrigerator / composting toilet / solar pool pumps.

This will be the 14th year in a row that the privately funded Solar Art Prize has been held, representing a total of $490,140 of solar product vouchers and metro tickets awarded to South Australian artists.

Art of any style in any medium is accepted for judging by a different team of independent judges every year.

The urgency of reducing carbon emissions can no longer wait on government, foreign powers or anyone else to take responsibility. We must do what we can – NOW.

This is your chance to express your feelings about climate change, laud those who are helping, and satirise those who are not helping.

Terms and conditions and the entry form may be found on our 14th Solar Art Prize page.

Saturday 9 April – Saturday 30 April 2022 (closed Easter 15 -18 April)

Monday – Friday 10.30 – 3.30pm

Come and see the finalists and the winning entries at the Royal South Australian Art Society gallery on the first floor of the Institute Building which is on the corner of North Terrace and Kintore Avenue.

Don’t be tricked by the staircase nearest to North Terrace – it won’t take you there! Take the staircase in the middle of the building, or the lifts.

Climate change, nature and the environment; expressed through landscapes, seascapes, wild fauna or flora or environmentally aware people or thought-provoking images.

Winners receive Natural Technology Systems Prospect vouchers towards the purchase of Solar Q Cell Panels/solar hot water/battery/refrigerator (low power)/composting toilet/or solar pool pump –  Winners choice – All fully installed.

Prizes are transferrable to family or friends in South Australia.

GUEST SPEAKER at opening Saturday 9^th April 2022

Professor Bronwyn Gillanders – Marine scientist

 JUDGES in 2022:

Janet Ayliffe – artist & teacher

Rod Bax – artist & teacher

Megan Roodenrys – artist & teacher

Also thank you to Natural Technology Systems, Prospect, who have not only honoured our vouchers since 2010 but have sponsored a major prize in the competition since 2016.

Prize is $9,000 voucher for Natural Technology Systems, Prospect

or

$500 cash plus 1 year RSASA membership

Winner: Mirjana Dobson – A Whiter Shade, porcelain/slip/lustre 10x60x40

$5,000 voucher for Natural Technology Systems

David Braun – A Stream runs through it, pen drawing with watercolour 93 x 65cm

Wild nature. Beauty of the natural environment.

Winner: Suzie Fewell, Disappearing Landscape: Yellow Mountains, digital photo 56.5 x 56.5cm

Winners were awarded vouchers for $4,000 each with Natural Technology Systems, Prospect.