Artist Trail August 2025
About Red Dirt , Blue Skies
We invite you to create an artwork in any arts discipline including 2D , 3D, visual art, installation, moving image or performance, that celebrates and tells stories of the local environment and its people.
Artworks will be displayed in businesses around Broken Hill.
Artists are responsible to find businesses in which to install their artwork .
Businesses must agree to display the work for the three weeks of Red Dirt Blue Skies. It is preferable that the works are visible through windows of the business so they can be observed out of hours.
BHAE will create a catalogue of works and an art map that visitors can follow to visit all works.
How to enter:
You can enter a maximum of two (2) works (but each entry requires a separate entry form). Entry fee BHAE Members $15, non-Members $25 per entry. Entry fee goes toward prize money.
Independent judges will select finalists and winners will be announced in August.
The exhibition is open to everyone who lives in the far western NSW region including Broken Hill, Menindee, Wilcannia, Wentworth, Tibooburra, and other regional centres.
Capture your artwork in a quality image and submit with the entry to Red Dirt Blue Skies Art Trail.
Detailed requirements for entries in the Terms and Conditions on this page.
Details & Important Dates
Registration: Open now till 25th July
Registration closes: 25th July
Install Artwork: Saturday 9/10th August
Art Trail opening even at the BHAE Kitchen Gallery: 16th August
Winners Announced (Judges and Peoples Choice): 30th August
Deinstall artworks: 29/30th August
Negotiate with a venue /business to display your artwork
· Installation of artworks is the responsibility of the artist in negotiation with the venue /business. BHAE have limited resources to support physically but can provide advice.
. A map of exhibiting works and plaque describing the work will be created by BHAE.
If you wish to display your work in centers outside Broken Hill please contact BHAE for details.
RED DIRT BLUE SKIES registration form
You are welcome to come to BHAE , the Grand and complete in your submission there (10-2 Mon-Fri)
Red Dirt BLue Skies 2025 TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Broken Hill Art Exchange Incorporated is indicated in these Terms and Conditions as BHAE.
2. To enter the 2025 Red Dirt Blue Skies Artist Trail a registration form must be completed through this website and submitted for eligibility. You are welcome to come to BHAE , the Grand 313 Argents St Broken Hill and fill in your submission there (10-2 Mon-Fri). Registrations commence are open now and close midnight 25 July 2025. Late submissions will not be accepted.
3.Who can enter Red Dirt Blue Skies
3.1 Any artist living in the western region NSW This area includes the following locations with their postcodes:
Balranald 2715 Broken Hill 2880 Fowlers Gap 2880 Hatfield 2715 Ivanhoe 2878 Little Topar 2880 Menindee 2880 Milparinka 2880 Mungo 2715 Mutawinji 2880 Packsaddle2880 Pan Ban 2648 Scotia 2648 Silverton 2880 Tibooburra 2880 Wentworth 2648 White Cliffs 2836 Wilcannia 2836. Entries can be displayed within the region please contact BHAE for display outside Broken HIll
3.2 BHAE staff and volunteers are eligible to submit artworks for the Red Dirt Blue Skies Art Trail.
3.3 Categories: General, 12 – 17 years and Under 12 years.
3.4 There will be awards for each category and a peoples choice award.
3.5 Groups can submit a work
3.5.1 Individuals or Groups may submit a maximum of 2 entries. Each entry requires a SEPARATE registration form. (see 5)
3.5.2 The entrant named in question 1 of the registration form/s is responsible for individual & group entries and the distribution of prize winnings. BHAE will make no decision/determination of the distribution of prize monies in regard to individual or group entry winnings. If the entrant is under 18, the parent/guardian named in the registration form will be the primary contact for correspondence and is responsible for these Terms and Conditions.
4. Submissions: All art forms and art disciplines are welcome. Entries of video and/or audio works must comply with any size and format requirements dictated by BHAE. and/or the venue business displaying the work.
4.1. Each artwork displayed requires a separate registration form. Entries submitted without a registration form will be deemed ineligible.
4.2. All submissions must be original works by the entrant/s. The Entrant will guarantee their ownership of originality and copyright rights of the work when they submit to this form .
4.3. Previously exhibited works: Artworks submitted into any previous exhibitions/art prizes are eligible for entry into Red Dirt Blue Skies Artist Trail.
4.4.Youth Entrants under the age of 12 and 12 – 17 years of age at the time of submissions are eligible for Youth Encouragement Award(s). To be eligible for Youth Encourage Award(s) all members of collaborative submissions must be under 18 yrs at the time of submissions.
5. Catalogue: All entries meeting the eligibility criteria will be published in a catalogue map as an Art Trail created and distributed by Broken Hill Art Exchange Inc.
5.1. For inclusion in the catalogue/trail map please supply :For visual art: Maximum of 2 only jpeg file per entry: -1 full view, 1 optional detail (eg, for sculptures) (We recommend a maximum resolution of 1000 x 1000 pixels at printable quality minimum 150dpi.) For performance and video works: a thumbnail image for us to signpost your work.
5.2. Galleries - if you are a gallery in Broken Hill and would like to have your gallery listed on the Art Trail Please register as an artist : fee $25
6. Entry/Registration fees:
6.1. The registration fee for current, financial members of BHAE is $15.
6.2. The registration fee for non-members of BHAE Inc. is $25 per entry.
6.3 An entry will be deemed ineligible if applicable fees are unpaid and/or the entry form is incomplete (e.g.,not accompanied by an image).
7. Display of artworks Artists must make their own arrangements with the businesses in which they agree to display their work.
7.1. The business must agree to display the work for the period of the exhibition 11- 28th August. Display and hanging of the works shall be negotiated between the artist and the business owner. BHAE is able to in some instances to provide advice re the installation of artworks.
7.2. All businesses installing artworks will be recognised in the Artist Trail Map.
7.3 All artworks will have a label to display and identify them as part of the Red Dirt Blue Skies Art Trail , so a gallery can include a work in the trail displaying its specific label. BHAE will deliver artwork labels and maps to business and galleries the week of 9th August.
7.4 While all care will be taken neither BHAE nor Business displaying works, can be held responsible for damage or theft during the exhibition.
8.Sale of Artworks Artworks can be for sale. BHAE Inc. accepts no commission for the on sale of artworks and all arrangements and negotiations regarding the selling of artworks, postage and handling is the responsibility of the submitting artist.
9. Awards Red Dirt Blue Skies Award will be selected by judges
9.1. The decision of the judges and those of the Broken Hill Art Exchange Inc as regarding the winning entries is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
9.2 The judges reserve the right not to award a prize and the judge’s decisions are final and no further correspondence will be entered into.
9.3 All Winners will receive a certificate of acknowledgement.
10. BHAE reserves the right to withdraw any artwork, at any time, at its discretion without notice. The decision is final and no further correspondence will be entered into.
10.1.The entrant agrees to abide to all directions for the submission, placement and exhibition of their entry as requested by BHAE.
11. Copyright and orginality By signing the Registration Form and submitting an artwork, you/the group acknowledge that all details supplied are true and accurate. You agree this is an original work by you/the group and you/the group indemnify BHAE and its affiliates against any and all copyright infringements or restrictions associated with the digitisation, reproduction, display, distribution of the artwork. You/the group gives permission for the digital display, projection, reproduction & publishing of the artwork/s in digital and print media platforms for educational, promotional and publicity purposes by BHAE and Red Dirt Blue Skies 2025
Broken Hill Art Exchange Inc, PO Box 258, Broken Hill NSW 2880 Australia T: 61+ 8088 4698 Email: info@brokenhillartexchange.org.au