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Belinda Fox, Take it back, 2006, etching, pigment and ink, lino on paper. Winner of the Burnie Print Prize 2007 at the Burnie Regional Art Gallery until 6 May.

In and around

Back to the artists
Having graciously made way for writers last year, Living Artists’ Week is back this year from 24 August to 2 September. There are a few innovations this time around, including a new online registration procedure. A full program will be published towards the end of June, and you can request a free copy from info@artsatwork.com.au after mid July. 

Rope, roll and brand ‘em
Once only cattle were branded, but now artists must be as well. If you want to brand and market yourself, you can attend a two-day workshop in Hobart (2 and 30 June), Launceston (4 and 25 May), Queenstown (1 and 29 September) or St Helens (5 and 26 October). The workshops include a program of e-learning and personalised coaching, but you have to be under 35 and have an ABN. Cost is $180. Email vanessa@necessarygroup.com, go to www.necessarygroup.com or phone Vanessa on 0418 429 010.

Money on the run
For those in the sticks, Regional Arts Australia’s Quick Response Grants of up to $1,000 can help when no other funding is available and money is needed fast. You have to be an incorporated, not-for-profit group or working under the auspices of one. Phone 64262344, fax: (03) 64262889, email: info@tasregionalarts.asn.au, visit www.tasregionalarts.asn.au or write to the Regional Arts Development Director, PO Box 172, Latrobe, 7307

Save the Weld

Want to help stop the Weld Valley being woodchipped? Then donate a work of art to the Weld echo exhibition, which will be at the Long Gallery, Salamanca Place, for two weeks from 1 May. The works should be inspired by the Weld and all funds raised will go to the anti-logging campaigns. The exhibition is organised by the Black Sassy Collective, part of the Huon Valley Environment Centre. Contact them at www.blacksassy.org, email centre@huon.org or phone 62641286. Submissions close on 22 April. The Collective is also organising some artists’ trips to the Weld Valley.

Tassie winners

Philip Wolfhagen has been awarded the 2007 Wynne Prize for landscape painting. Bett Gallery of Hobart is showing Philip’s work at the Australian Embassy in Washington DC from 17 May to 15 June ... Matt Calvert has won the Wyndham City Council Prize, part of the Helen Lempriere Sculpture Prize. It’s an acquisitive award to a maximum of $35,000, which, by a wonderful coincidence, was exactly the price of Matt’s work.

Exhibitions

Alice at the Allport is an exhibition by seven Australian ceramicists on the topic of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The work of each artist is exhibited alongside works of decorative art from the library’s collection to create a surreal and whimsical atmosphere. It’s on at the Allport Library, State Library of Tasmania, until 30 June ... At Devonport Regional Gallery, Intimate and distant landscapes features work by Jon Cattapan, Judy Watson, Jonathan Kimberley, Sue Lovegrove and Dorothy Napangardi. Until 15 April ... The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is showing the first major survey exhibition of the work of Leigh Hobba. It includes video, performance, installation and sound works, with an emphasis on his Tasmanian video landscapes. It’s on until 17 June.