CLIP AWARD 2024
The CLIP Award is relevant, honest and presents a critical urgency for viewers to reflect on and analyse how the human relationship coexists with the natural landscape in current time.
Monica Allende, Past CLIP Award Pre-selection Judge
The Perth Centre for Photography is pleased to announce that the 2024 Contemporary Landscapes in Photography (CLIP) Award is now open and all artists are invited to enter.
The CLIP Award is PCP’s biennial award for contemporary urban, natural, and conceptual landscape photography. CLIP celebrates new international photography that exemplifies excellence and intrigue.
The selection criteria focuses on images which are critically engaging, innovative, and reflective of global, cultural, social, and environmental issues.
All methods including traditional print photography, new technologies and expanded forms of image-making are accepted. This is an internationally recognised award and PCP encourages all artists working with photography to enter.
Prizes
First Prize – $3000, Student Prize, $1000, Judges Commendation $500
Up to 3 images can be entered for consideration per entry, photographic artists can enter more than once. Submission of an entry does not guarantee selection as a finalist.
Dates
Closing date for entries: 1 May 2024, 11:59pm
Finalists will be notified two weeks after entries close.
Guest Curatorial Pre-Selection Judge
Anouska Phizacklea (BA (hons), MA, MCom, CPA, GAICD) is currently Director of the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh). Phizacklea has expertise across the visual, decorative, literary and performing arts as well as finance and organisational development, with Masters Degrees in both Fine Arts and Commerce.
In 2023 she joined the board of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (Treasurer). She has held senior management positions at leading Victorian public institutions, Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), and worked for many years in art research and valuations in galleries and auction houses in Melbourne and London.
Since her appointment at MAPh Phizacklea has curated group and single artist exhibitions with leading Australian practitioners including Allusion & Illusion: the fantastical world of Valerie Sparks (2018), Robyn Stacey: as still as life (2018), The Tucker portraits(2020) , Tamara Dean’s Leave only footprints (2022) and commissioning exhibitions Portrait of Monash: the ties that bind (2020), STAGES: photography through the pandemic (2021) and the major survey exhibition and publication of Anne Zahalka, ZAHALKAWORLD – an artist’s archive (2023).
