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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, offering 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.
For Australian landscape painting
$50,000 Acquisitive
Sponsored by Wirra Wirra Vineyard, Hardy Wine Company and Tinlins Wines
For paintings with a food and/or wine industry theme
$10,000 Acquisitive
Sponsored by Chapel Hill Winery
For landscape painting of the Fleurieu Peninsula region
$10,000 Acquisitive
Sponsored by d’Arenberg
For paintings with an environmental water theme
$10,000 Acquisitive
Sponsored by Fox Creek Wines, Supported by SA Premiers Art Partnership Fund
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
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