A Cricket Art Prize painting is a composition depicting life in and around the game of cricket in settings of backyard, beach, social or local club cricket. This annual cricket art competition offers cash prizes to the winning artist, Highly Commended and Peoples' Choice awards with international exposure for the finalists in the travelling exhibition. Cricket, in all its forms has inspired the arts over the ages, most of which romanticise and celebrate the game. Painters and poets have used cricket as the vehicle to unsettle preconceptions, generate new ideas and challenge our contemporary culture. More importantly, cricket and the arts bring people of all backgrounds and nationalities together. The organisers received 232 entries and the judges selected 32 of those paintings to assemble the exhibition in the Members Pavilion at the SCG in October 2009. Entries will be accepted in 2010 from any citizen residing in a full member registered ICC country i.e. - Australia, England & Wales, New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe who create and complete their work in the 12 months leading up to the closing date - 1st September 2010.
The organisers invite artists from test playing nations to submit, subject to the conditions hereunder mentioned, a painting or composition that depicts life in and around the game and sport of cricket, in settings of backyard cricket, beach cricket, social-cricket or local club cricket.
The work may be:
Figurative - paintings which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition representational; art which represents human figures; the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of art that retains strong references to the real world.
Semi-abstract - a work which shows new ways of seeing with fresh ideas using a visual language of form, colour and line to create a composition sometimes referred to as modern, contemporary or post-modern.
Still-life - a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects or cricket paraphernalia e.g. stumps & bails, pads, gloves, caps, scorebooks etc - in a natural, random or incidental setting.
Figure-in-landscape which depicts scenery, sky and weather elements juxtaposed with-in backyard cricket, street cricket, beach cricket, social-cricket or local club cricket scenes.
Acceptable media are: oil painting, acrylic painting, water-colour, pastels or mixed media on canvas, board or artists paper with a cubist, impressionist, tonalist, fauvist, surrealist, pop art, futurist, hard-edge, modern, naïve, orientalist, pointillist, precisionist, regionalist or romanticist style.
Not Accepted
1. A painting of a famous person, cricketer or the artist (past or present) is not by the organisers' definition a cricket painting, but a portrait and the Cricket Art Prize is not a portrait art prize;
2. A painting showing the faces of current or past celebrities, even if it is in a cricket setting. The organisers discourage the use of famous people in a Cricket Art Prize entry.
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