Announcing a $500 Award to Undertake a Residency at BigCi

The Very Terry Reid Award

Local and international artists are invited to submit proposals for a
$500 Award to undertake a Residency at Bilpin international ground for
Creative initiatives (BigCi) to take place between July and December 2013.

BigCi is located in Bilpin on the edge of the World Heritage listed
Greater Blue Mountains, about one and a half hours drive away from
Sydney, Australia.

Bilpin is a quiet, isolated place, with a population of around 500
scattered in a thin, long wedge of rural land sandwiched between Wollemi
National Park and Blue Mountains National Park.  The four-shop centre of
Bilpin includes a small Post Office (see photo attached).  Mail is not
delivered to BigCi; it is personally collected at the Post Office.  The
ritual of the mail collection provides a point of social contact within
the surrounds of pristine wilderness. The Post Office is located near to
the beginning of the unsealed road, 820 metres from BigCi.

*The Very Terry Reid Award* is open to artists from various fields such
as mail artists, painters, sculptors, multimedia artists, performance
artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers. Proposals for the Award need to
show how the artist wishes to respond to the environment of Bilpin and
specifically utilise the Bilpin Post Office, relating it in some way to
the art.

*The due date for submissions is 15 April 2013.*

Application Form containing more information about the Award is attached.

For more information about BigCi, go to http://www.bigci.org/

Please feel free to spread the word about this new creative project.


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http://www.bigci.org/