2020 Inaugural Heads High Art Show Registration Form

About Space2b
Space2b is a social enterprise supporting newly arrived migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum to become financially independent.  Space2b workspace includes a shop, ArtSpace Gallery, design studio, workshop, café and small business hub in the City of Port Phillip. 

We are excited to present our inaugural Heads High Art Prize. We invite all emerging and established artists to enter by painting your interpretation of an Australian celebrity or local hero. Top 40 finalists will be chosen and exhibited in our ArtSpace Gallery during December and January 2021.

Click here for our suggested list of CELEBRITIES to choose from or choose your own. Space2b has been given permission to use all the images shown here.

Entry is $25.00 non-refundable and one entry per person is allowed. 

Registration is $10.00 for artists from a culturally and linguistically diverse community or background. Pay your fee through Humanitix and register with your receipt number in the box below.

Registrations close Sunday18th October. Late registrations will not be accepted.

Note: One application per artist only. Multiple entries will not be accepted

Prizes

Art Prizes totalling $1,200 with first prize being $600, 2nd prize $350 and 3rd prize $250.

Artwork to be received digitally by Tuesday 17th November 2020. Go to our website for more info regarding the competition.

If you have any questions about Heads High or completing this online application form, please email artspace@space2b.com.au. 

Please check box below as acceptance of our Terms and Conditions.

Heads High 2020 is proudly supported by Bendigo Community Bank, Windsor.

Tax Declaration

It's important that as an exhibitor, you provide an ABN to Space2b or indicate that you are a hobby artist, otherwise we are by law, obliged to withhold 48.5% for the Australian Tax Office from any sale on top of the commission which goes to Space2b. 

Payment of Artwork Sales 

All sales payments to artists will be processed within 21 working days after the exhibition closes. 25% commission will be deducted by Space2b on any art work sales.

To help us process payments, please provide us with your bank account details.

 

Artworks Criteria:

• On canvas
• Medium: water-colour, acryllic or oils accepted
• Artwork can be full body, not just head and shoulders portrait
• Photo Realism works accepted
• Collage works accepted
• Video not accepted
• Artwork must be the original work of the registered artist, and not exhibited previously
• Artwork must measure minimum 30cm and 90cm maximum on longest side  
• Artwork must be ready to hang (see image below) with cord and D-rings attached
• Reverse of paintings must be labelled with your name, artwork title (Celebrity/local hero chosen) and price.

Artist Statement

In the box below, please tell us about your artwork/s or your creative process, who you chose as your subject, and why you chose this person as your subject for Heads High 2020.

Please also tell us a bit about yourself (200 words max.)

Artwork Examples

Please provide links to any website or Social Media account that might showcase your artwork

Submission and Selection Process

Once you have registered and signed the T&C's, you have until Tuesday 17th November to complete your portrait. Once your portrait is completed, please email a high resolution image of your artwork to artspace@space2b.com.au.

Our Judging Panel will select the top 40 images to be included in the exhibition and you will be contacted with the outcome of your submission by email. If successful, your work will appear in both the Online and the ArtSpace Gallery during December and January 2021.

Artwork not selected in the Top 40 in the gallery exhibition may still be selected to appear on our online gallery.

Winners will be announced at the Exhibition Opening on Thursday 3rd December, 2020.

DELIVERY OF ARTWORK

DATE: Artwork delivery for installation to Space2b at 144 Chapel St, St Kilda on either Saturday 28th or Monday 30th November 11am-3pm.

Space2b will notify you of your assigned delivery time slot for delivery one week prior to delivery date.

BRING WITH YOU:

• A copy of your Registration form & confirmation email from Space2b (screenshot is fine)
• Your Humanitix receipt 
• Your completed, ready to hang Celebrity artwork as per T&C’s

Disclaimer

Please note that while all care will be taken, Space2b is not liable for any damage to your artwork and reserves the right to reject any artwork regarded as inappropriate or offensive.

Terms and Conditions

Please ensure that you have read and understood the Terms and Conditions.