Mr Philip Bacon, director of Philip Bacon Galleries, will select the recipient of the LAUNCH Clayton Utz Travelling Scholarship.

A Queensland artist has the chance to win $5,000 and have their work, along with another 24 finalists, exhibited through the new scholarship program launched earlier this year.

Photographer Martin Smith received the inaugural prize in July 2008 (judged by Nick Mitzevich - Director, University of Queensland Art Museum). 

The exhibition will be open to the public at Metro Arts from 10th to 18th December 2008.  

On Friday August 29, at the State Library of Queensland, Mr James Strong, Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts launched BoardConnect, a new service for the arts and cultural sector in Queensland to a gathering of over 80 guests from industry and business.

Mr Strong commended the new service as an ‘impressive initiative and a tribute to Positive Solutions and Arts Queensland’. He also stated that the Queensland arts and cultural sector is ‘being talked about down south’ for its vision and growth. As a passionate supporter of the arts, Mr Strong reiterated the value of effective board governance to underpin and sustain the sector.

The much anticipated second edition of The Book of the Board by Positive Solutions’ director David Fishel is now available for purchase. The book, published by Federation Press is an invaluable handbook for boards and board members of non-profit organizations. The second edition, while retaining an overall structure similar to the first edition, has been fully revised and updated to reflect developments in the non-profit environment.

Photographic artist Martin Smith was awarded the inaugural LAUNCH Clayton Utz Travelling Scholarship last week.

Nick Mitzevich, the director of The University of Queensland Art Museum, chose Smith’s work Hells Bells as the winner from an exhibition of 25 short-listed artists.

“Martin Smith is a worthy recipient for the inaugural Clayton Utz scholarship. Smith’s work extends the dimensions of photography with an innovative edge, delivering a poetic and powerful message about the world around us.” Nick Mitzevich said.

One of the key strategies outlined in Cathy Hunt and Phyllida Shaw's Platform Paper 15, the establishment of a Future Fund for the Arts, emerged as a key priority in the Creative Australia Stream of the 2020 Summit.  Further discussion on the issue of sustainability and the need for such a fund can be read in the RealTime Arts article, The S Word, available via our Publications and Resources page.