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Finalists announced for the Ramsay Art Prize 2021
24 finalists selected from more than 350 entries in the coveted prize.
Words: Maddy Matheson
24 finalists have been selected from more than 350 entries for the Ramsay Art Prize 2021, a biennial $100,000 acquisitive art prize presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia and supported by the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation. The Ramsay Art Prize is open to submissions from Australian artists under the age of 40 working in any medium. The aim of the prize is to encourage growth in Australian artists at a pivotal moment in their career.
“We are thrilled to present contemporary talent from every state and territory for the first time in the third iteration of the Ramsay Art Prize,” says AGSA Director,
Arts education on the “endangered” list in Australia
As a result of COVID-19 restrictions, most planned arts activities in Australia were cancelled or severely modified to the point of being unrecognisable in 2020. This was across the board, affecting all modes of artistic expression. By the end of April, more than $340 million in lost work had been reported to the ilostmygig website.
As many in the arts sector are painfully aware, the federal, state and territory governments offered little or no assistance, leaving many thousands of arts and entertainment workers on sub-poverty dole payments. This has been an extraordinarily long and difficult time for artistic communities to survive.