The Fivex Art Prize, Australia’s first award dedicated to digital billboard art, has announced the 2020 judging panel along with an extension to the call for entries to 11pm on 16 February 2020 (AEDT).

Conceived and funded by the Fivex Foundation, the Fivex Art Prize: Billboard Art Reimagined, is a significant new art award that promotes new forms of bold, memorable street art for today’s digital age. The Prize is open to Australian applicants from a range of creative disciplines, including photographers, graphic designers, street and tattoo artists, illustrators and architects.

The winner of the Grand Prize will take home $30,000 and have their work displayed on two large-scale LED QMS Media billboards – a horizontal corner ‘wrap’ and a vertical ‘podium’ – prominently located at the corner of Flinders and Elizabeth Streets in Melbourne’s CBD, opposite Flinders Street Station. The work will be screened among regular programmed advertising and also in designated showcase slots as a form of public art intervention from 30 March – 3 May 2020. In addition to the Grand Prize, up to five finalists will receive $1000 each and also have their work exhibited on the billboards.

Judging the award for its inaugural year are distinguished figures from the fields of art, media and advertising:

●      Jane Devery, Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria

●      Liss Fenwick, Public Art Project Lead, Melbourne City Council

●      Gary Deirmendjian, Artist

●      Barclay Nettlefold, Group CEO, QMS Media

●      Alessio Cavallaro, Creative Producer, Fivex Art Prize, and media art curator

For further information about the prize and how to enter: https://www.fivexartprize.com.au/enter