Gold Coast art gallery: HOTA launches $100k artist competition to get work hung in new gallery

Gold Coast artists will be given the chance to have their artwork hung in the city’s new $60 million gallery in a competition worth more than $100,000.

GOLD Coast artists will be given the chance to have their artwork hung in the city’s new $60 million gallery in a competition worth more than $100,000.

The Home of the Arts (HOTA) will this morning announce a commissioning contest for up to 20 local artists to create work to be put in the gallery during its inaugural season early next year.

Inside the HOTA gallery. Supplied by Gold Coast City Council

The newly commissioned works will be presented in the gallery’s 1000 sqm main exhibition space, and also a number of works will be placed outdoors in the surrounding parklands.

Artists will be given $5000 to create their work.

FIRST GLIMPSE OF CULTURAL PRECINCT

An artist's impression of the new HOTA Gallery. Picture: Supplied

Artists have to be Gold Coast based, or demonstrate a significant link to the Gold Coast to be eligible, and must submit ideas for indoor and outdoor works, ranging from medium to large-scale installations, video projections, freestanding sculptures and performance.

HOTA chief executive Criena Gehrke, said the call-out was a first for the Coast.

INSIDE COAST’S NEW ART GALLERY

An artist impression of the $60.5 million gallery currently being built at Bundall's Home of the Arts (HOTA) on the Gold Coast.

“Now more than ever, we have a deep responsibility to support Gold Coast artists,” she said.

“We have huge talent in our community and to highlight their work in this incredible gallery pays homage to that. Artists are at the core of our vision; without artists there is no home of the arts.”

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The gallery will open next year.

Applications open today and close on June 19.

The gallery, which began construction last year, is expected to be completed early next year when it will open to the public.

It will be home to the council’s $32 million art collection as well as travelling exhibits and will the largest gallery outside the capital cities.