Libris Awards
2022 LIBRIS AWARDS: THE AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS' BOOK PRIZE
AND THE WINNERS ARE...
WINNER Category 1.
Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal National Artists’ Book Award (acquisitive) $7,000
Jessica DORIZAC Passages 1-5 2021, handcut paper board, 8.5 x 8.5 x 1.4 cm. Images courtesy the artist.
HIGHLY COMMENDED Category 1.
Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal National Artists’ Book Award (acquisitive) $3,000
Sarah IND Heavenly states 2021, paper, 4 x 16 x 13 cm. Images courtesy the artist.
WINNER Category 2.
Mackay Regional Council Regional Artists’ Book Award (non-acquisitive) $2,500
Denise VANDERLUGT Living with green 2021, coiled images suspended in handmade paper, 10.5 x 12.5 x 8 cm (closed). Images courtesy the artist.
WINNER Category 3.
Artspace Mackay Tertiary Artists’ Book Award (non-acquisitive) $2,000
Ana Paula ESTRADA I am here 2021, digital print and photography, 28 x 43 cm. New York: Visual Studies Workshop. Images courtesy the artist.
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Illustrated Catalogue of Finalists for 2022 Libris Awards
Artspace Mackay congratulates the winners and 57 finalists. Thank you to our major sponsor Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal and our Judges, Adele Outteridge and Brian Robinson. Thank you to the artists throughout Australia who submitted entries for the 2022 Libris Awards.
The staff of Artspace Mackay acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work, the Yuwi People. We extend this acknowledgement to all Aboriginal members of the Birri Gubba Nation and pay respects to Elders past and present, and to the young emerging leaders. We acknowledge the important protocols of the Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Australian South Sea Islander communities across the Mackay region.
Click here for the illustrated Catalogue of Finalists
Exhibition dates: 9 April – 19 June 2022
Artspace Mackay’s biennial event, the Libris Awards, brings together works by leading and emerging artist book makers from across the country. The Awards are a chance to celebrate the art form and build on the gallery’s significant artist book collection through the competition’s acquisitive prizes. With four awards, including special categories for locally based artists and art students, the prize offers $14,500 in total prize money.
CATEGORY 1. Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal National Artists’ Book Awards
* Overall Winner $7,000 (acquisitive)
* Highly Commended $3,000 (acquisitive)
CATEGORY 2. Mackay Regional Council Regional Artists’ Book Award $2,500 (non-acquisitive)
CATEGORY 3. Artspace Mackay Tertiary Artists’ Book Award $2,000 (non-acquisitive)
Key Dates:
- Entries open Tuesday, 30 November 2021 to 3pm Wednesday, 5 January 2022
- Shortlist announcements on Monday, 31 January 2022
- Awards announcement and exhibition launch on Saturday, 9 April 2022
- Exhibition open Saturday, 9 April 2022 to Sunday, 19 June 2022
Artspace Mackay are excited to announce the judges for the 2022 Libris Awards:
Adele Outteridge is an artist and book maker who has specialised in artists’ books for over three decades. In 1998 she co-established The Studio West End. Outteridge has been artist-in-residence at schools and galleries across Australia, including the Ramingining Aboriginal Community, Arnhem Land, and held international teaching posts at Arrowmont School, Tennessee and at the Women’s Studio Workshop, New York. Her work in artists' books, printmaking, sculpture and drawing has been exhibited widely, held in private and public collections including the State Library of Queensland, school and university collections, and several regional galleries including Artspace Mackay.
Brian Robinson is an internationally recognised Queensland artist whose works meld contemporary graphic influences with his Torres Strait Islander storytelling heritage. His public sculptures on Wood Street, Mackay are part of a prolific career of public art commissions. Since 1999 he has contributed to several visual arts boards including the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Australia Council, Umi Arts, National Portrait Gallery, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair’s Indigenous Reference Panel and NorthSite Contemporary Art. Robinson’s work is held in major collections including National Gallery of Australia; the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art; National Gallery of Victoria; the Australian National Maritime Museum; the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia; and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, United States.
LINKS & DOWNLOADS
- 2022 Libris Awards Terms & Condition of Entry.
- View past Libris Awards
- 2022 Illustrated catalogue of finalists
2022 SHORTLISTED ENTRANTS
- Janet Ambrose, Every picture tells a story 2021
- Lyn Ashby, the End of the Line 2021
- Elizabeth Banfield, Lacuna (letter 18) 2020
- Sara Bowen, Narrative codes 2021-22
- Ruth Cho, Crossing over 2021
- Marian Crawford, Haunts hantise haunting 2021
- Grace Cross, Book of rabbit proof fence 2021
- Nicole Crosswell, Being seen 2021
- Jan Davis & Jan Palethorpe, GOLD 2021
- Fiona Dempster, Turning point 2022
- Jessica Dorizac, Passages 1-5 2021
- Barbara Dover, Vestige 2021
- Rachel Dun, Integrate 2020
- Ana Paula, Estrada I am here 2021
- Caren Florance & Peter Lyssiotis, Getting away with it 2021
- Robyn Foster, The fine art of creature spotting 2021
- Gillian Frederick, Lacuna and the missing piece 2022
- Lee Fullarton, Mr Chippa the woodblock carver of Bagru 2021
- Annique Goldenberg, 80° north - artist book as environment 2017-21
- Kim Herringe, Sky dancers 2021
- Sarah Ind, Heavenly states 2021
- Judy Keogh, Not enough toes to count the days 2020
- Peta Lloyd, Traces of place 2021
- Gita Mammen, Transient 2021
- Katherine Masiulanis, Merrijig -- a record of a short holiday 2021
- George Matoulas & Peter Lyssiotis, Bridge 2021
- Clyde McGill, Notes for the speech 2021
- Migaloo Press Artists Collective, On the edge 2020
- Robert Moore, Rivers bend 2021
- Sarah Mufford, Days of white bluff (codex) 2021
- Mika Nakamura-Mather, My old country home (furusato) 2021
- Janis R. Nedela, Book illustration: Ammonite 2021
- Sue O'Malley, Tea and tigers
- Glen O'Malley, Walking Woopen Creek 2021
- Monica Oppen, Of property and nature 2021
- Glenda Orr & Kathy Boyle, Now and when? 2022
- Jacobus Oudyn, Flattening the curve 2021
- Michael Phillips, Speaking with trees 2021
- Sue Poggioli, Sky river rocks 2021
- Liz Powell, Homestead dig: Tenterfield Station 2021
- David Jay Reed, The importance of living 2021
- Rose Rigley, Cataloguing absence 2021
- John Ryrie, Strangers on a train 2021
- Patrick Shirvington, The return 2021
- Glen Skien, Object-poem: metaphor volumes 1 and 2 2020
- Barry Smith, It won't dismantle itself 2021
- Zina Sofer, Perpetual cycle 2021
- Doug Spowart &Victoria Cooper, Desire paths 2022
- Gwenn Tasker & Angela Gardner, Not thinking about the circus at the circus 2021
- Ruth Thompson, Gurrundurrung 2021
- Denise Vanderlugt, Living with green 2021
- Peter Ward, HeartBeastFactory 2021
- Marama Warren, Ablaze -- the Currowan fire 2020
- Kylie Watson, The day of the dead (scroll) 2021
- Michelle Wild, Insignia 2021
- Patricia Wilson-Adams, Veritas: lost words and truths 2021
- Aliki Yiorkas, The line 2022