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Cassandra Chilton, From a distance looks like flies, 2006, (detail), acrylic, fine silver, 925 silver, stainless steel, 750 gold. Joint winner of the $7,500 2006 City of Hobart Art Prize acquisitive awards for jewellery. See the other finalists at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, until 1 October

New growth in SA

Kevin Perkins has won the 2006 ForestrySA Wood Sculpture Prize for a huon pine piece entitled New growth. The biennial competition is one of Australia's most important for artists working in wood. The head of the judging panel was Adelaide sculptor, Tony Bishop. Perkins lectures in furniture design at the University of Tasmania’s School of Art. The prize is hosted annually by Riddoch Art Gallery, 6 Commercial Street, East Mount Gambier, South Australia. See it and other entrants on display until 15 October. Call 08 8723 9566.

Do it in Moonah

The Moonah Arts Centre is looking for written submissions from artists, arts groups and performers for its 2007 program. They’re interested in exhibitions, workshops, forums, residency proposals, concerts and so on. Call 03 6214 7633, or visit www.mac.gcc.tas.gov.au. Applications close 27 October.

High school art

Ogilvie High School has a new sculpture garden that includes a group of mosaic sculptures entitled Script by Tony Woodward. They were commissioned through the Tasmanian Government’s Art for Public Buildings Scheme, as well as a mosaic pathway by the school’s artist-in-residence, Deborah Wace, who worked on the design with some of the students.

There will be more

A rumour has been circulating that this year’s Arts Tasmania monograph, on Pat Brassington, will be the last. It’s not entirely misguided, since I’m told that the idea of curtailing the series has been considered. But now that the University of Tasmania’s new publishing venture, Quintus, is up and running and has been given publication rights, the future of the Tasmanian artists’ monographs is assured, at least for the foreseeable future.

Artspeak

Forum speakers coming up at the Tasmanian School of Art this month include: sculptor Charles Robb on 15 September; artist Geoff Parr on 22 September; and Lindsay Broughton, artist and Head of Drawing at the school, on 29 September. Next month there is Jackie MacNamee, an installation artist visiting from Scotland, on 6 October; University of Melbourne academic and author, Paul Carter, on 13 October; and Bala Starr, exhibitions curator at Melbourne’s Ian Potter Museum, on 20 October. All forums are in the Dechaineux Theatre at 12.30pm.

New exhibition space

The state government has given $3 million to Launceston City Council for a new temporary exhibition gallery at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Inveresk. The money was promised in the last state budget. Until now, the gallery did not have any dedicated temporary exhibition area. The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart doesn’t have one either.