{"id":1385,"date":"2006-12-19T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/19\/sasol-wax-2007\/"},"modified":"2006-12-19T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T11:58:09","slug":"sasol-wax-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/19\/sasol-wax-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasol Wax 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sasol wax art award 2007 Call for Entries<\/strong>
Sasol, the world’s largest producer of wax, has announced the launch of the Sasol Wax Art Award 2007. This award is aimed at established, professional artists resident in South Africa and seeks to reward innovation and excellence in the visual arts.
 
Artists will be judged, through a peer review process, on submissions of their curriculum vitae, and career profile.
Semi Finalists will then be invited to submit proposals for artworks using wax as a key component in the works, either in process, medium or conceptually.   Five finalists will then be selected.
 
Who is eligible?
•   Practicing career artists, permanently resident in the Republic of South Africa.
•   Artists with a sustained career profile spanning at least the last 7-10 years.
 
  Prizes
•   Five finalists each receive an honorarium of R20 000 towards production of works.
•   A R130 000 (one hundred and thirty thousand rand) prize will be awarded to the winner.
 
The entry deadline is close of business on the 26th February 2007.  Entry boxes have been located in 11 venues around South Africa and all relevant information is contained in the entry forms attached.<\/p>\n

Spread the word amongst your colleagues, staff and clients who may be interested in entering or nominating other artists for consideration for this unique opportunity.
More info: hotmango AT mweb DOT co DOT za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sasol wax art award 2007 Call for EntriesSasol, the world’s largest producer of wax, has announced the launch of the Sasol Wax Art Award 2007. This award is aimed at established, professional artists resident in South Africa and seeks to reward innovation and excellence in the visual arts.  Artists will be judged, through a peer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,8,2,19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-ml","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1416,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/15\/sasol-wax-2007-semi-finalists-announced\/","url_meta":{"origin":1385,"position":0},"title":"Sasol Wax 2007 semi-finalists announced","author":"nathaniel","date":"15 March 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Kind of modelled on the Turner prize, this competition works by open nomination for mid-career South African artists, then 10 semi-finalists are chosen by committee based on their work to date, 5 out of those will get a R20,000 budget - from proposals - to make a work or series\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "art"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1307,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/29\/jeremy-wafer-takes-sasol-wax-award\/","url_meta":{"origin":1385,"position":1},"title":"Jeremy Wafer takes Sasol Wax Award","author":"nathaniel","date":"29 August 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Will have to blog more about this later in the week (probably weekend), as it was such a commendable show of great work by some of SA's best, and sometimes underappreciated, artists - but that's for when my time winds down a bit. 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