Submissions

(Image: Simurgh, Hyun Ju Kim etching 29 x 42cm) Information QG&W are excited to announce the 2019 literary festival exhibition print exchange theme is: ‘Historia’. As per our previous print exchanges - Australian Literature (2018), Great Authors (2017) and Lettered (2016) the group exhibition will align with the Queenscliffe Literary Festival scheduled for May 2019 and will also incorporate other literary related works. A maximum of 32 artists have been selected from the national submission call and have each been assigned [...]

(Image: Pain Pleasures plate 4 (Print 5 of 7 unique state prints) by Hal Timothy Yarran 37 x 29cm aquatint, drypoint, etching, engraving. Beauty or Beast? Interpret the theme in any way you wish but please provide a statement with your submission […]

QG&W is located in Victoria on the Bellarine Peninsula’s coastal town of Queenscliff with a focus on printmaking and other works on paper. QG&W proudly shows the work of over 70 Australian artists/printmakers. As well as operating the gallery space, QG&W also offers art and printmaking workshops and printmaking studio access. QG&W exhibiting artist, Graeme Peebles, is Australia’s leading mezzotint printmaker. Graeme studied and lectured at RMIT and is a multi-award-winner in his field with [...]

Art: Rakes Progress by Spook MAY: Queenscliffe Literary Festival group exhibition Every year Queenscliff hosts the Queenscliffe Literary Festival in May, a most exciting national event. Last year QG&W successfully hosted a literary festival exhibition and associated print exchange, Lettered. This year, we will again incorporate a print exchange between 32 artists who are exploring the theme, Great Authors. The artists are: Riste Andrievski, Elizabeth Banfield, Janine Bailey, T J Bateson, Violeta Capovska, Leonie Connellan, Ann Cunningham, [...]

Art: Under the flight path 2 framed by Jim Pavlidis FEBRUARY: Bellarine printmakers Submission rule No.1 QG&W predominately focuses on printmaking but will additionally exhibit related works where an artist explores their subject/s in other mediums. That means – we want to be able to talk alot about your work and how you produce and approach it – it’s of great interest to our visitors. Your work does not have to relate to the Bellarine, [...]

Information The 'Great Authors' print exchange will coincide with the Queenscliffe Literary Festival 2017 (as per the Lettered print exchange in May 2016) and the maximum participants will total, no more than 32. Each selected artist will be assigned a famous author from the following list: Dante Alighieri Edgar Allan Poe Jane Austen L. Frank Baum Truman Capote Lewis Carroll Agatha Christie Arthur Conan Doyle Ronald Dahl Charles Dickens Fyodor Dostoevsky Alexandre Dumas F. Scott [...]

DECEMBER – JANUARY: Places Submission rule No.1 QG&W predominately focuses on printmaking but will additionally exhibit related works where an artist explores their subject/s in other mediums. That means – we want to be able to talk alot about your work and how you produce and approach it – it’s of great interest to our visitors. We welcome you to interpret the submission theme in anyway you wish, so long as you can explain it [...]

SUBMISSION CLOSED – View the details for the exhibition ‘Chroma’ print exchange – exhibiting November 2 – 30, 2016 Submissions accepted via email until (send CV or website url): 20 June, 2016 After the success and great interest with the ‘Lettered’ print exchange, we’re keen to keep pushing the general concept of the print exchange so that the artist’s collaborative works not only suit a theme but form a secondary concept. The ‘Chroma’ print exchange [...]

Submission has passed. View Home Nostalgia Above: Postcard to Melbourne Edition of 3. Printed on Arches BFK. 26 x 67cm. Postcard to Melbourne also forms part of the artists’ collaborative book. AUGUST: Home Nostalgia Starting with submission rule No.1 QG&W predominately focuses on printmaking but will additionally exhibit related works where an artist explores their subject/s in other mediums. That means - we want to be able to talk alot about your work and [...]

Right: Douglas Kirwan After Bonnard 2012. Screenprinted keyline and acrylic paint. 13.5 x 54 cm SEPTEMBER: Primavera Starting with submission rule No.1 QG&W predominately focuses on printmaking but will additionally exhibit related works where an artist explores their subject/s in other mediums. That means - we want to be able to talk alot about your work and how you produce and approach it - it's of great interest to our visitors. We welcome you [...]