Have you ever wondered how you could turn your creative passion for art into cash? Then University of Sydney Union’s Photo, Art, Literature & Music (PALM) Awards are for you!
The PALM awards is a competition run by the USU, which aims to support and reward the creativity of its talented members by encouraging entries in a range of multimedia forms!
Culminating in the Verge Arts Festival, the 2009 PALM awards will see a selection of art works exhibited in the brand new Verge Gallery in the Jane Foss Russell building.
Along with having your work exhibited and recognised, there is $11,000 in cash to be won as well as some funky Crumpler gear.
Prizes are awarded in the following categories: Art (Abstract & Environment/People), Photography (Abstract & Environment/People), Literature (Poetry & Prose) and Music (Composition), as a People’s Choice Award for each category.
Online registrations open on 27 July and close 14 August.
Go to www.usuonline.com/PALM for more information or to enter the competition.
The PALM Awards Ceremony will be held on 8 September 2009 in the Verge Gallery in the Jane Foss Russell building.
Proudly sponsored by Crumpler.
2009 PALM Awards:
Open: 27 July 2009
Close: 14 August 2009
Ceremony: 8 September 2009.
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Contact
The ACCESS Centre
Level 1, Manning House
Manning Road
The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006
T 02 9563 6000
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2008 PALM Awards Winners
The University of Sydney Union would like to thank every participant for contributing to an outstanding exhibition this year and congratulate the following winners who all produced a high caliber of works. An overwhelming 362 applications were received for PALM this year, with a large selection forming the PALM Awards exhibition held in Manning House from 1 – 19 Sept.
The exhibition space was the perfect setting of the Awards Ceremony held on Tuesday 9th September where judges, applicants and art enthusiasts converged to hear the announcement of winners. The first and second prize winners in each category were awarded $1000 and $500 respectively, with Highly Commended winners receiving $150 vouchers from PALM Awards sponsor Crumpler.
ART AWARDS
Abstract
1st Place: Helen Mok – Aurora Reflection
2nd Place: Vanessa Cassey – Waking up
Highly Commended: Peter Dixon – Extreme make over 2
Environment / People
1st Place: Jasmine Avril - Station
2nd Place: Sarah Newall - Rata
Highly Commended: Vanessa Cassey – Arc, Bend, Bow
PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
Abstract
1st Place: Lucy Howard-Taylor – You were in a wasteland
2nd Place: Astley Friend – The Art of Destruction
Highly Commended: Glen Baghurst – Mirror Image
Environment / People
1st Place: Keisha Galbraith - Backstreets
2nd Place: Roy Smith - Jessi
Highly Commended: Peter Johnson – The impossibility of intimacy #5
LITERATURE AWARDS
Poetry
1st Place: Tessa Lunney - Home
2nd Place: Sara Hames – East and Coast
Highly Commended: Luskasz Swaitek - Columbus
Prose
1st Place: Sara Hames - Oceans
2nd Place: Amelia Schmidt - Smoke
Highly Commended: Farrah Sa’adullah - She
MUSIC AWARDS
Composition
1st Place: William Gardiner – On Living :: movement 1 :: Reverie
2nd Place: Julia Wylie – Paper Blue Sky
Highly Commended: Ben Glass – Swirlscape
PEOPLES CHOICE AWARDS
Along with the competition winners the PALM People’s Choice Awards were also awarded on the night. The following works earned the votes of the crowd, a $250 prize and a cool Crumpler bag.
Art
Isobel Crumblin – Organic Construction
Photography
Glen Baghurst – Mirror Image