Saturday 12th October 2024
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Based on the Islamic Museum of Australia’s annual Australian Muslim Artists Art Prize, Future Australian Muslim Artists (FAMA) is an art competition for young people.
FAMA invites budding artists in Years 10-12 across Australia to submit an artwork to exhibit at the Islamic Museum of Australia between December 2024 - February 2025.
FAMA aims to give emerging Muslim artists an authentic platform for their perspectives, voices and talents. It also provides an opportunity for young creatives to display their work in a professional museum setting.
Pictured: FAMA2023 artist Melia Jusufi Two Souls One Faith
Applications open: 29 August 2024
Applications close: 11.59pm, Thursday 31 October 2024
Shortlisting: Friday, 1 November – Thursday, 14 November 2024
Exhibition selection notification: By close of business, Friday 15 November 2024
Delivery period for shortlisted works: Saturday, 16 November – Saturday, 30 November 2024, 10am – 4pm
FAMA Artist Prize recipient announcement: Thursday, 12 December 2024
FAMA exhibition: Friday, 13 December 2024 – Saturday, 22 February 2025
Artists/Schools to collect works: Tuesday, 25 February – Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 10am – 4pm (by appointment)
Delivery and collection of the artwork/s are the responsibility of the artist and/or the school.
Applications are open to all artists who meet the criteria outlined in the Terms and Conditions.
Eligible entries are considered for inclusion in FAMA2024; an exhibition of shortlisted works selected by a panel of judges.
A non-acquisitive cash prize of $1,000 will be awarded to the Future Australian Muslim Artists Art Prize recipient.
Kerrie Poliness
Kerrie Poliness is known for her painting and drawing works that revisit the ideas and practices of conceptual art. She uses everyday materials to produce large scale asymmetrical geometric artworks which respond to the place in which they are made. Since the early-1990s, Poliness has designed systems for making art. Patterns are drawn onto various surfaces via instruction manuals, which enable other people to participate in the process of making her artworks. The drawings and the process of making them reveals something intrinsic about matter, that nothing is really physically perfect or symmetrical even if it looks like it is. These artworks highlight interconnective processes and patterns of nature and people. As part of her art practice, Poliness regularly works with art galleries, museums, councils, schools, architects and others to deliver workshops where large groups of people can participate collectively in making public artworks. Since 1997, Poliness has produced site responsive public artworks which typically incorporate everyday industrial materials installed by skilled local trades people. Her works are present in major public collections in Australia and internationally, including: Art Gallery of Western Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia; Dowse Art Museum, New Zealand; Griffith University Art Gallery; Monash University of Art; Heide Museum of Modern Art; National Gallery of Victoria; Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne; QAGOMA and prominent private and corporate collections. Kerrie Poliness is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Leslie Eastman
Leslie Eastman is a visual artist and educator who has held numerous exhibitions nationally at venues such as ACCA, Linden Gallery, Gertrude Contemporary and Experimenta. He works primarily with ephemeral installations that explore the human sensorium through drawing, video, optics, sculpture, and photography, often using architectural interventions specific to site. Leslie collaborates with other artists and writers including most recently New York based artist Natasha Johns-Messenger and astronomer Professor Sarah Maddison, Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing. In 2017, Leslie exhibited The Illuminated Field at the Islamic Museum of Australia; the work comprised footage filmed in Andalucía in Spain whilst on the Australia Council Barcelona studio residency. Leslie was the founding member, curator, and exhibitor at Light Projects (2010-12), an experimental project space in Melbourne which held numerous exhibitions by local and international artists addressing themes of psychoanalysis and perception. He completed a PhD at Monash University in 2015 where he worked for many years as coordinator of the Drawing, Painting, and Fine Art Programs. Recent exhibitions include Light Matter at Station Sydney and Light Sensitive at Town Hall Gallery in Hawthorn. Leslie is a consultant and contributor to the Coburg Islamic Centre rebuild. He is currently a Senior lecturer in Interior Design at RMIT.
Dr Mahmoud Mohammed (Curator, Conservator and Collections Manager, Islamic Museum of Australia)
Mahmoud is responsible for the art department and research activities at the Museum. His role includes curatorial work, exhibition management and collections care and conservation. Mahmoud has a PhD in Cultural Materials Conservation from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor in Conservation from Cairo University – Fayoum Branch. He is a casual lecturer at the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation. Mahmoud has a long experience in collections care and conservations science both professionally and academically. Throughout his learning journey he has collaborated with and trained in international institutions around the world including the USA, Italy and Egypt.
There is no fee to enter FAMA2024.
Enquiries may be directed to Islamic Museum of Australia: Telephone 1300 915 171 or email: admin@islamicmuseum.org.au
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