Linden Postcard Show 2013

EXHIBITION DATES:
Saturday, 2 February 2013 - Saturday, 23 March 2013

OPENING:
Saturday 2 February 2013 at 1pm

Winners announced: view here on Facebook

Installation photos of most of the gallery

The Linden Postcard Show turns 22 this year. This unique open entry award is a unique event in the Australian cultural calendar. It is open to all Australian artists.

Artists can enter up to three art works in any medium or style. The only restriction is size - works must measure no more than 30 x 30 x 30 cm.

Melbourne based artist Kenny Pittock was announced as the winner of the Evening Star, South Melbourne Market prize of $5,000 on Saturday 2 February.

Internationally acclaimed and award winning Australian actor Rachel Griffiths officially opened the exhibition on Saturday and congratulated each of the artists and wished all of them every success in pursuing their passion for art.

Pittock's winning work Clingy Ex-Boyfriend is like "most of my work, it is meant to be both funny and serious" says the artist. "At the time I painted it I figured there were basically two types of people, there's slime balls and there's misery guts. You wake up as one or the other every morning."

Martin Martini The Vienna Project added to the celebrations with his unique big band.

Linden Postcard Show 2013 - Winners List

Evening Star, South Melbourne Market Award $5,000
1013	Kenny Pittock	Clingy Ex-Boyfriend	acrylic on cardboard

Palais Theatre Management Artist Support Award $2,000
758	Tara Marynowsky	Spies With Eyes, The Postcard Collection l	watercolour on paper

St Kilda Art Supplies $1000 worth of art materials
271	Sarah crowEST	Mound Activity Eight	mixed media

Member for Albert Park Award $600
1351	Julie Watkins	There's Always A Voice Somewhere	photocopy collage, gouache
(This work will be reproduced as a greeting card to be used exclusively by Martin Foley MP, State Member for Albert Park)

Linden Postcard Winners

99	Fergus Binns	Artist Canvas (Pigeon)	oil on canvas
251	Megan Cope	Boon Wurrung (Study)	military maps, Indian ink, metallic paint on canvas
586	Kirra Jamison	Apex	gouache, vinyl on paper
655	Michael Kluge	Pat	photograph
701	James Lieutenant	Painting From a Newspaper	acrylic on canvas
930	Grant Nimmo	Poddoc	oil on German beechwood
(These artists will each receive $250 and their work will be reproduced as Linden postcards)

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS AND TO ALL THE ARTISTS IN THE SHOW

Thank you to the judges :

Kelly Gellatly, Curator Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria

Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Senior Curator, Artbank

Dan Rule, visual art columnist and writer for The Saturday Age, and contributing editor to Broadsheet

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Collectors Preview

The Collectors preview fund-raiser, held on the Friday night before the opening, was the chance to preview and purchase before the official opening. Arthur Roe, Director, Arthur Roe & Associates spoke about his passion for collecting art and how to develop an art collection.

This year's event was fully booked in advance.

Photos from the night are here

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This exhibition is proudly supported by:

Yarra Trams	Evening Star - South Melbourne Market


St Kilda Art Supplies Prahran

Elwood Community Bank - Branch of Bendigo Bank	Our preferred accommodation partner - Quest St Kilda Bayside

Punt Road Wines

Asahi Super Dry Beer

State Member for Albert Park