The Overwintering Project is an environmental art project inviting artists from Australia and New Zealand to visit, research, and respond to the unique nature of their local migratory shorebird habitat. Australia and New Zealand have over 100 internationally important shorebird overwintering sites. These sites are not interchangeable: each possesses a unique combination of physical and biological features that makes it the perfect sanctuary for migratory shorebirds to return to year after year.
Conditions for contributions to the Overwintering Print Portfolio:
The next deadline for prints is August 1 2020. This deadline is for works to join the existing Overwintering Project Print Portfolio to be exhibited at Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania and the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, over the summer of 2020-2021, as well as all future core Overwintering Project exhibitions.
Informal groups of printmakers and/or print workshops are invited to hold their own Independent Overwintering Exhibitions. The conditions are as below for organising bodies and galleries.
If an artist would like to organise a solo exhibition around the project theme, contribute more than one work, or create an artists book, please contact the project co-ordinator.
The Print Portfolio provides both the fundraising aspect of the Overwintering Project, and the enduring core of work that can be exhibited at any time to aid shorebird or coastal conservation.
Deadlines (general information)
Conditions for contributions to the Overwintering Print Portfolio:
- post two copies, one to exhibit and one to sell to raise funds for shorebird research, of the their Overwintering print to the Project Co-ordinator (1 Lees Street, Northcote, Vic., 3070)
- any original print medium that can be editioned is accepted
- prints must be created specifically for the project in response to the unique nature of your local migratory shorebirds and their habitat; unless there are serious personal circumstances that prevent artists from visiting their local shorebird habitat, artists are strongly encouraged to make a site visit into their local migratory shorebird habitat
- prints must be printed on a suitable archival printmaking paper over 200 gsm
- paper size: 28 x 28 cm
- email a good-quality jpeg of your print (300 dpi; 1 MB minimum) to the Project Co-ordinator ([email protected])
- submit an image caption with your work's title, medium and year of creation; a 100 words artist statement and a precise description of the location of your site
- pay an administrative charge of $25.00 AUD via Paypal or direct debit (for details on how to pay, go to Project Payment)
- download, fill in and return the artists' agreement by email ([email protected]) or by mail accompanying your prints
The next deadline for prints is August 1 2020. This deadline is for works to join the existing Overwintering Project Print Portfolio to be exhibited at Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania and the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, over the summer of 2020-2021, as well as all future core Overwintering Project exhibitions.
Informal groups of printmakers and/or print workshops are invited to hold their own Independent Overwintering Exhibitions. The conditions are as below for organising bodies and galleries.
If an artist would like to organise a solo exhibition around the project theme, contribute more than one work, or create an artists book, please contact the project co-ordinator.
The Print Portfolio provides both the fundraising aspect of the Overwintering Project, and the enduring core of work that can be exhibited at any time to aid shorebird or coastal conservation.
Deadlines (general information)
- deadlines will be advertised here, through the project newsletter and on social media (Facebook The Overwintering Project and Instagram @kategorringesmith)
- project deadlines advertised on this site will pertain only to core exhibitions organised by the project co-ordinator Kate Gorringe-Smith and only refer to the contribution of prints to the Overwintering Print Portfolio unless otherwise stated
- if an artist misses an exhibition deadline there will be other opportunities to submit prints to future exhibitions; it is the project's interntion for the Overwintering Print Portfolio to continue to grow throughout the duration of the project