The 2008 Fleurieu Biennale will take place 7 - 30 November 2008.

Since its inception in 1998, the Biennale has grown to become a national visual arts festival which provides, as the cornerstone of the event, Australia's richest prize for landscape painting, the Fleurieu Art Prize, offering $50,000 to the winning artist.

It seems appropriate that the most significant prize for landscape art in Australia be centered in the Fleurieu Peninsula, a region which, with its striking vistas and extraordinary geological formations, has long been both a home and a source of inspiration for some of Australia's most important landscape artists.

The Prizes

The Fleurieu Art Prize
For Australian landscape painting
$50,000 Acquisitive
Sponsored by Wirra Wirra Vineyard, Hardy Wine Company and Tinlins Wines

The Art of Food and Wine Prize
For paintings with a food and/or wine industry theme
$10,000 Acquisitive
Sponsored by Chapel Hill Winery

The Fleurieu Peninsula Vistas Prize
For landscape painting of the Fleurieu Peninsula region
$10,000 Acquisitive
Sponsored by d’Arenberg

The Fleurieu Water Prize
For paintings with an environmental water theme
$10,000 Acquisitive
Sponsored by Fox Creek Wines, Supported by SA Premiers Art Partnership Fund

The Fleurieu Youth Scholarship
For a young Australian artist aged between 16 and 27 years towards the cost of
a program of professional development.
$10,000 Acquisitive
Sponsored by Santos

Entries Close: 5.00pm, Friday 1 August 2008

Entry Forms now are available for download!
Download form here (pdf 771k) or contact artprize@artprize.com.au for more information.

The 2006 Fleurieu Art Prize Winner was Ken Whisson (Time Is) [more]