ADC Biennial Make Award launched
Australian Design Centre is delighted to announce the new national "MAKE AWARD: Biennial Prize for Innovation in Australian Craft and Design". The winner of the Make Award will receive $35,000, with a second award of $10,000 for the runner-up.
Entries will open in February 2023 and close in May 2023. This biennial award is open to craftspeople and designers working in ceramics, glass, furniture/woodwork, metalwork, textiles and fibre, and jewellery.
Entries are encouraged from designer/makers with a high level of skill either working with materials that are new to their practice or working in new and innovative ways. Makers are invited to ‘push the envelope’ by challenging and altering our perceptions of making and design.
To be eligible work must be created within 12–18 months of the closing date and not previously exhibited; and must demonstrate an extension of the designer/maker's work beyond their usual practice.
‘Lisa Cahill, Australian Design Centre’s CEO and Artistic Director, said: ‘The Make Award presents an exceptional opportunity to acknowledge the richness and diversity of creative talent in craft and design practice in Australia. Inspired by award programs such as the Burke Prize offered by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, we decided it was time for Australia to have our own national award for innovation in making.’
The award is supported by a generous donor who wants to raise the profile of Australian craft and design.