HOW TO ENTER

Completed entry forms are to be emailed to pix@gloucester-arts.com.au

Along with confirmation of entry and printing fees being paid ** – see entry form

for payment options.

Click here to download the entry form.

The closing date for entries ( forms and images) is Friday 11^th June 2021

Entry forms and photographs, according to the terms & conditions, are to be emailed to pix@gloucester-arts.com.au  by 5pm on Friday 11^th June.

 

** Please contact us directly if you are suffering financial hardship and we can look at options

 

CRITERIA

There are 8 categories as follows:

Faces I Have Met

The Lie Of The Land – this must be of the Gloucester area 

The Natural Environment

Culture

Man Made

Not Your Normal Photo

Absence Of Colour

Junior * – open genre.

* Entrants to this category must be 17 years or under at 11th June 2021.

 

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Entries are $15 each for entrants 18 years and over.

Junior category is $5 each entry.

Entrants to Junior category must be 17 years or under at 11 June 2021.

PLUS PRINTING FEE is $15 for every entry

There is a limit of 5 entries per person.

Each submitted photograph is to be in jpeg (.jpg) format, 300dpi and between 4 Mb and 5 Mb in size and is to be INDIVIDUALLY EMAILED to pix@gloucester-arts.com.au

 on or by Friday 11th June 2021.

Subject of each email must be your Name and the entry number,

For example: JSmith 1 of 3

The body of the email must list:

• Title of work
• Category
• Date photo taken
• Type of photo eg. SLR, compact camera or phone capture
• Description of the location of the photo

Maximum of 3 photos for any one entry that is displayed as a series.

Photos must have been taken within the last two years and not exhibited in the Gloucester Gallery or any other gallery within a 200km radius.

Winning entries in any category must be available after the exhibition for promotional use by GACCI and our sponsors, via their website and social media accounts at their own discretion. GACCI will endeavour to credit the photographers name, where possible.

A copy of winning entry for The Lie of The Land Category will be provided to Fairfax for publication on the cover of Gloucester Advocate phone book the following year.

Any image deemed unsuitable/inappropriate will be excluded from the competition and/or the exhibition.

No late entries will be accepted – sorry!

PRIZES in 2021

Each senior category awards 1^st Prize $100, 2^nd Prize $50; Junior category gives 1^st Prize $75, 2^nd Prize $50 and a $25 Encouragement Award.

A Major Prize of $500 is awarded to the overall winner.

The 1^st Prize in The Lie Of The Land category also receives a $50 Publishing Award from the Gloucester Advocate and it will grace the cover of Gloucester Phonebook in 2022.

Lastly, a People’s Choice Prize can be awarded at the conclusion of the physical exhibition. There will be a voting and coin collection box in the gallery for this.

 

PRIZE WINNERS will be announced in Gloucester Gallery on Friday 16th July 2021 at 7pm and shortly thereafter via our Facebook page and on the website http://gloucester-arts.com.au/pix-from-the-stix.html