A POPULAR landscape art competition will be used as a new marketing tool to promote the McLaren Vale and Fleurieu Peninsula region.
The Fleurieu Biennale, which awards $50,000 to the major prize winner, has changed its name to the Fleurieu Art Prize and will be held every two years from 2011.
Fleurieu Art Prize board member Marc Allgrove said the event “arguably the world’s richest landscape art prize” promoted the arts, as well as food, wine and tourism.
“We want it to be the most sought after art prize in the world,” said Mr Allgrove, who is chief executive at Chapel Hill winery. “It has the potential to be South Australia’s Archibald Prize an event that national and international artists seek to enter and seek to win.”
The event, started in 1998 by local identities David Dridan, Tony Parkinson and the late Greg Trott, also has four minor categories including Vistas, Water, Food and Wine, and Youth Scholarship, which carry $10,000 in prize money for each winner.
Mr Allgrove said the board, chaired by Libby Raupach, hoped to use the art event as leverage to increase visitors to the region. A Symposium with renowned landscape artists will be held on October 23, with one day painting competitions held on November 13 and 20, as a prelude to the main event in November 2011
Details at http://www.artprize.com.au
Tuesday 22 June 2010
Wednesday 16 June 2010
Monday at the Sea & Vines
Our guests had left early on the Monday morning of the Sea & Vines so we had plenty of time to clean up and head out for the day.
Well, we booked our tickets online and joined the guys from MVBeer in the marquee next to the Salopian Inn. We enjoyed a MVBeer and a Hills Cider while they served up a seafood extravaganza. DJ Tyson Tightpants was playing some retro disco grooves.
This was only to kill time before our main event of the day, a full on gourmet experience, inside the Inn. It consisted of a 6 course degustation long lunch with Gemtree Wines coming on board to round off the experience with their biodynamically produced McLaren Vale wines.
A six course degustation lunch menu hosted by Mike Brown, Head Winemaker of Gemtree Wines.
On arrival enjoy Vale Ale with
- Freshly shucked oysters
- Pastry wrapped anchovies
- Octopus, green olive tapenade, crisp pancetta
This will be followed by:
- Gulf of St. Vincent baby squid stuffed,
- Gemtree grape sample verjuice butter
- 2009/2010 Moonstone Savagnin
- K.I. crayfish tail, asparagus, poached egg, truffle cream sauce
- 2008 Luna Roja Tempranillo
- Roast Berkshire suckling pig, wild fennel seed,apple, abalone salad
- 2001 Uncut Shiraz & 2008 Uncut Shiraz
- Gemtree lamb cooked 3 ways, zucchini flowers, ratatouillie
- 2007 White lees Shiraz
- Australian, imported Cheeses
- 2007 Obsidian Shiraz
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