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Calendar Out Now
Of the 232 entries received, the judges selected 32 paintings to assemble the exhibition in the Members Pavilion at the SCG in October 2009. The Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust then selected 12 works from the exhibition to create this unique calendar.
The Cricket Art Prize 2010 Calendar is beautifully produced and each painting celebrates and pays tribute to the game. The months may come and go but you can never tire of revisiting the pages of these perceptive and suggestive paintings. Beautifully printed in full colour, A4/landscape/wirecomb-bound with each painting displayed atop each month-page in the calendar.
See www.cricketartprize.org/calendar
Beneficiaries
The Cricket Art Prize fundraises for the McGrath Foundation and the Ponting Foundation and those charities receive contributions generated via any sale of these calendars before operational costs.
Only $19-95c plus postage
To order e-mail info [at] publisherscup [dot] org [dot] au
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We received just under 3000 votes since we ran the online ballot on our website from October last year. Receiving 52% of the vote the Peoples’ Choice for 2011 is: “A Fine Partnership” 150 x 100cm – oil on canvas by Daniel Hutchings
The International Cricket Hall of Fame Bradman Museum St. Jude St., Bowral NSW 2576 Thursday 27th Jan – Sunday 6th March 2012 9am – 5pm
Artists co-ordinator, Derek Zilich, said interest was so strong in the project that artists are coming from Sydney, country NSW, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria to paint to the SCG. “French Impressionist painters such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir advocated en plein air painting, and much of their work was done outdoors, [...]
