Mandjar Art Awards
The winner’s of the 2010 Mandjar Art Awards were announced at a presentation on Saturday, 13th March at the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre. This year Awards have been sponsored by the Alcoa of Australia, the Halls Head Branch of the Bendigo Bank, Hunsa Smallgoods and the Peel Development Commission.
There were 208 artworks entered with over half of those being submitted by artists from the Peel region. “The high quality and variety of artworks again submitted this year has created an outstanding exhibition,” said Gary Aitken, Curator of the Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery. “We were particularly pleased to receive a number of works from indigenous artists,” he said.
 The 2010 Awards were judged by Andre Lipscombe, Curator, City Collections and Public Art, Fremantle Arts Centre. The Alcoa of Australia Corporate Award was awarded to Trevor Richards from Fremantle for his acrylic on canvas piece entitled Crossing 2. 
The Halls Head Branch of the Bendigo Bank Regional Award was presented to Monique Tippett from Dwellingup for her jarrah and synthetic polymer work entitled Inflorescence.
This year the Hunsa Smallgoods Highly Commended Corporate Award was presented to Melville artist Ron Nyisztor for his work Mothballed South Fremantle Power Station. The Peel Development Commission Highly Commended Regional Award was presented to Mandurah Artists Jean and June Pastore for their work Optitwizzical the 1st.
The Awards Exhibition will run until Sunday 4th April and during this time visitors will have the opportunity to vote for the People’s Choice Award. This Award is again sponsored by the Halls Head Branch of the Bendigo Bank and the winner will be announced at the end of the Exhibition.
Mandjar 9x5 Art Exhibition & Auction
 The annual Mandjar 9x5 exhibition has become a major event in the Peel region attracting up to 150 artists whose two dimensional and sculptural works refle ct the diversity and quality of artwork produced and donated to the Mandjar 9x5 by Western Australia artists.
The Heidelberg 9x5 is firmly embedded in the tradition of Australian art and has been the catalyst behind the idea for the Mandjar 9x5. This concept has evolved though the Mandjar 9x5 to embrace contemporary ways of seeing and making with new art forms.
 The original Heidelberg 9x5 exhibition was held in Melbourne over a 100 years ago. It featured original paintings on cigar box lids that measured 9 inches by 5 inches. In the 1880's, a group of Australian artists began to paint in the Impressionist style, showing the ever-changing effects of nature. They are sometimes ref erred to as the Heidelberg School, named after Heidelberg, a suburban village near Melbourne where they worked. Leaders of this school included Charles Conder, Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts, and Arthur Streeton.
The 2010 Exhibition will be on show from Wednesday, 1st September with the Auction and sale commencing at 7pm on Friday, 1st October.
All are welcome.
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