The Metro Gallery award, now in its tenth year, is Australia's richest art award for emerging Australian artists. It has helped launched the careers of several past winners including Ben Quilty, Jackson Slattery and Sam Leach.

Conditions Of Entry

Value

• • The Metro Gallery Art Award is $50,000.
• • The Award is paid to the winning entrant by cheque on the day of the announcement.

Eligible works

• • Genre – all genres are accepted.
• • Medium – oil, acrylic, water colour or mixed media.
• • Size – maximum size accepted is 170.0 x 170 cm, including multiple panels.
• • Age – works entered must not have been produced any earlier than 24/06/10.
• • Framing – works must be suitably framed for hanging (a stretched canvas is considered framed).

Eligible artists

• • Age – your year of birth cannot be earlier than 1977 (ie, all entrants must be no older than 35 years old in 2012).
• • Residency status – entrants must be Australian citizens or hold a permanent Australian residence visa.
• • Exclusions – artists who have already won the Metro Gallery Art Award and artists represented by Metro Gallery are not eligible to enter.

Other conditions of entry

By entering the Metro Gallery Art Award, all entrants automatically agree that:

• • Acquisition –the winning painting will automatically become part of Metro Gallery’s collection.
• • Sales – all finalists’ works are available for sale to the public during the Metro Gallery Art Award exhibition.
• • Promotion –Metro Gallery may reproduce entered works in any advertising or promotional campaigns before, during or after the exhibition.
• • Publicity – all entrants agree to participate in media interviews if required.
• • Freight, insurance & care – entrants are responsible for arranging freight and insurance at their own cost. Metro Gallery will exercise reasonable care with entered works but will not be responsible for any loss or damage whatsoever to any works while in its custody.

Selection of winners

• • The judges will select between 20-25 works as finalists.
• • From those finalists, the judges will select one winner of the Metro Gallery Art Award.
• • Metro Gallery will not notify entrants who are not finalists.

Entry procedure

• • Entry forms – can be downloaded at www.metrogallery.com.au
• • Artist biography – to be stapled to the back of the entry form.
• • Photographs –please attach five high quality colour photographs of your entered work with your entry form. The photographs must be identical. Photographs must be no smaller than 15.0 x 20 cm. Print (in block letters) your full name, together with the title, medium description, size in centimetres (height first) and finished date (month and year) on the back of each photograph. Photographs will not be returned.
• • Artists may only enter one work.
• • There is no entry fee.
• • No entries will be accepted without a fully completed entry form, artist biography and five photographs as described above.
• • Entries will not be accepted after the closing date.

Previous Winners

2010 Judges' Award: Paul White
2010 People's Choice Award: Ben Sheers

2009 Judges' Award: Jackson Slattery
2009 People's Choice Award: Victoria Reichelt

2008 Judges' Award: Fergus Binns
2008 People's Choice Award: Jackson Slattery

2007 Judges' Award: Giles Alexander
2007 People's Choice Award: Celeste Chandler

2006 Judges' Award: Samuel Leach
2006 People's Choice Award: Eolo Paul Bottaro

2005 Judges' Award: Tamir David
2005 People's Choice Award: Vr Morrison

2004 Judges' Award: Ben Quilty
2004 People's Choice Award: Daniel Truscott

2003 Judges' Award: Yvette Coppersmith