Libris Awards

2022 LIBRIS AWARDS: THE AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS' BOOK PRIZE

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.

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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

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