The Launceston Art Society's premiere award is now accepting entrants, with over $13,000 to be awarded.
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The Esk Art Award is the rebranded name of the long-running Tasmanian Art Award, supported by disability care organisation, the Eskleigh Foundation.
The major prize is worth $6000, with eight other prizes to also be awarded at the exhibition opening, on Friday, April 12, at Eskleigh homestead, Perth.
This is the second year the Launceston Art Society has taken over management of the award, with last year's opening drawing 240 guests to enjoy the cocktails and canapes .
The prize is open to all artists residing in Tasmania, and unusually for the society, is open to non-members.
This year the prize will be judged by two Tasmanian judges, still to be determined, and Paul MacDonald Smith OAM.
Mr Macdonald Smith is the immediate past president of the Victorian Artists Society in Melbourne, current President of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Inc. and chairman of the A.M.E. Bale Traveling Scholarship Judging and Advisory panel.
His artwork has received in excess of 100 awards and is widely represented in public, regional, municipal, institutional, corporate and private collections throughout Australia and overseas.
Entries close at 6pm on March 8, with entry forms are available online through the Launceston Art Society website, at artlas.org.au.