BLAKE

PRIZE

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49th National Blake Prize

the prestigious art award for religious art.

The winner and twenty finalists will be exhibited at the

New Norcia Art gallery and Museum.

Sunday 27th May - Sunday 16th September 2001

The Benedictine Community of New Norcia invites you to two

Special Art Lectures

by Steven Miller
Archivist for the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 16th June 2001, at 11.30am at the New Norcia Education Centre

RSVP required, telephone 08 9654 8078

For Art and religious educators and their colleagues.

The Lecture - Seeing Salvation
In the last ten years there has been a renewal of interest in the spiritual sources and possibilities of art. The founding members of the Blake Prize for religious Art, Michael Scott and Peter Kenny, believe that religious art should explore ‘recognizable subject matter or...traditional symbols of religion.’ However, in contemporary art a broader notion of ‘spirituality’ has developed, involving an awareness of human creative potential and a sense of transcendence through artistic expression. This lecture will look at the way a number of Christian artists have addressed important issues in their work, such as art and spirituality, personal religious expression and the Western legacy of Christian art, iconography and symbolism.

 Sunday 17th June 2001, at 1.30pm in St. Gertrude's College, New Norcia

RSVP to Michelle Freeman on 08 9654 8173

 
 

The Lecture
The lecture will be based around the history of the Blake Prize. It will focus on some of the winning paintings and consider some of the important conflicts associated with the prize in the last fifty years, such as the tensions between creative expression and propaganda, representation and abstraction.
This lecture will look at the way in which the prize has been transformed during this period and it will attempt to assess the impact of the prize upon the Churches and religious art generally in Australia.
The Blake Prize
The Blake Prize, first awarded in 1951, is one of Australia’s most respected visual art awards. This non-denominational religious art prize is unique in the world, being open to all strands of religious and spiritual ideas by which society is shaped. It includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, tapestry, photography and other media. Of the 330 submitted works this year, 20 including the winning entry have been selected to come to Western Australia and will be exhibited exclusively at the New Norcia Art Gallery and Museum until 16th September 2001.
Steven Miller
Steven Miller is the Archivist for the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He has worked in both public and commercial galleries and has formal qualifications in Fine Arts and Theology. He is the author of a book on the agnostic, but deeply spiritual artist, Weaver Hawkins and is presently completing a book on Church and the Arts in Australia. This publication explores the relationship between the Christian Churches and visual artists, musicians, architects and poets in Australia.

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