Entries Open Monday March 13th!

The 8th annual Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing opens for submissions on March 13th 2017. Submissions close at midnight on Monday June 12th, 2017.

Major Prize Winner is awarded $4000 (acquisitive)

Honourable Mention is awarded to the value of $500

People’s Choice Award is awarded to the value of $500

The Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing aims to encourage excellence in drawing as an important foundation for any arts practice. 25 Finalists will be chosen by a specially-selected judging panel and their works exhibited at Jugglers Art Space during August 2017.

For more information and online entry, see http://www.jugglers.org.au/marie-ellis

Stay up to date with current Marie Ellis Drawing Prize news and read about our featured artists by following Jugglers Art Space on Instagram & Facebook.

Jugglers is grateful for the ongoing sponsorship of the Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing by the Hopkins-Weise Family.

Jugglers Art Space Inc. is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

For more information please contact Aaron Micallef (marieellis@jugglers.org.au)

A Hazara refugee living in Brisbane has created an artwork for a new exhibition that illustrates his sense of still being in limbo.

Sha Sarwari fled Afghanistan as a teenager and journeyed to Australia by boat in 2000.He settled in Brisbane, started a family, and became an Australian citizen in 2006, but said he still felt out of place. "Even for me, living in Australia for the past 15 years, I haven't found my foothold in my life here," he said. "When I see my fellow refugees … it renews my memory that I don't belong here, I have to go back one day, so it doesn't let me settle."