Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley proudly presents ‘Works on Paper,’ a captivating group exhibition showcasing Aboriginal and Contemporary artworks, all unified by paper as their primary medium. The exhibition brings together an exceptional group of artists who push the boundaries of traditional paper-based art, incorporating mixed media, texture, and innovative techniques to transform […]
Established in 1987 the churchie emerging art prize is Australia’s longest running award for emerging artists. ‘the churchie’ is dedicated to promoting innovation and excellence across art encompassing all mediums and subjects. The annual non-acquisitive prize is an initiative of Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie). Artists from all Australian states and territories are selected as
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The national acquisitive Sunshine Coast National Art Prize is a dynamic visual arts award reflecting outstanding contemporary 2D and new media arts practice in Australia. Since 2006, the exhibition presents the remarkable finalist works by artists from across the country. The artwork awarded with the Major Prize will be acquired into the Sunshine Coast Art
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The Riḡorabana, The Balawaia is an immersive exhibition that explores Melanesian heritage, environmental processes, and the transmission of Indigenous knowledge through the lens of both ancestral and diasporic experiences. Weaving together familial storytelling, fieldwork, and cultural practices from Papua Niugini, the project interprets local mythologies surrounding the caves and boulders deep within the sacred mountain of
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Unhomely is a collaborative crossdisciplinary installation exploring the idea of a domestic uncanny, from Sigmund Freud’s definition of uncanny. Freud’s definition owes the german word unheimlich, which literally translates to unhomely. Uncanny describes a place that is at once familiar and unfamiliar, making it unsettling, uncomfortable or frightening. Cardboard packing boxes plaster the gallery walls, erupting
FEED is an exploration of the influence of social media and the societal implications of its wide spread use. This exhibition seeks to critically examine how these forces shape our identities, behaviours, and perceptions, often blurring the lines between public and private, real and virtual, and empathy and apathy. Join us in this event celebrating
Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize is an initiative of the Hervey Bay Regional Gallery and Fraser Coast Regional Council that seeks to explore our reciprocal, inextricable relationship with the environment through contemporary art. Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize invites entries from artists working in any visual art medium from across Australia, offering a
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Firstdraft supports and platforms early-career, risk-taking and experimental art practices through a diverse program of solo and group exhibitions. Successful applicants receive: $1,500 artist fee for solo projects $950 artist fee (each) for exhibitions of up to 2 artists $600 artist fee (each) for exhibitions of more than 2 artists, capped at $3,000 all of
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In conjunction with our current exhibition, Numinous: The Landscape Paintings of William Robinson QUT Collection artist and alumni Robert Brownhall will be offering a drawing workshop. Exploring the adjacent Botanical Gardens and the architecture of Old Government House join Robert for a workshop with a focus on scene selection, the drawing process and the essence of how
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POWER – The Future is Here is the result of a collaboration between artist Dennis Golding and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from Alexandria Park Community School. The superhero capes were created during a workshop in 2020, led by Golding who was an artist in residence at the school through Solid Ground. Students from kindergarten
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Maitland Regional Art Gallery (MRAG) is calling for exhibition proposals for two exhibition spaces in the 2026-2028 program. Both spaces are considered project spaces and can be used for a range of purposes including installation of exhibitions and creative making. Our exhibition program is full in all other spaces until 2028. Proposals should include: images
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The Internship Program is offered to current and past Griffith University students. 2025 marks the 15th anniversary of the Griffith University Art Museum Internship Program. Over the last decade we have mentored almost 60 Griffith University students and alumni, helping them to build exciting careers at leading institutions within Australia and overseas. Our graduates
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Remagine Art Prize is an environmental art prize which began in 2009, to promote awareness of environmental challenges such as waste and consumption. This year’s theme ‘RE: THINK TO RE: PURPOSE’ refers to the decisions we make each day about how much waste we create, and how this directly affects our environment. Artists are asked to
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The Almenara Art Prize is an international online painting competition that offers more than 29000€ in cash awards, 20000€ in products and other prizes. We encourage the international participation in diverse genres, styles, mediums and substrates including hyperrealism, photorealism, contemporary realism, surrealism, imaginative realism, impressionism and plein air painting. Categories include Figurative, Portrait, Drawing, Landscape and Plein Air Painting, Still
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The Lennox St. Gallery Art Award celebrates contemporary visual art, providing a platform for artists to showcase exceptional Paintings and works on paper. Open to artists under the age of 35 and living in Australia, the award invites submissions of original paintings and works on paper created within the last twelve months. The aim of the award is to
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The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 8th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. It includes all static mediums: Traditional Art media, Digital Art media, and Photographic media; and all styles from realism and hyperrealism, to pop surrealism and lowbrow. The Prize seeks to
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The residency awards are the biennial Rome Residency, and an annual two-week residency at Bundanon. These are offered in alternate years, so that both residencies for Bundanon will be offered biennially, with set dates for each annual placement. The period of residency is from the beginning of April to the end of June (the European
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The Doyles Art Award is an annual Australian representational fine art award and exhibition. Hundreds of original artworks are on display in Mudgeeraba, Queensland, for the duration of the exhibition. All adult artwork and some junior artwork is for sale. Categories include Landscape, Still Life, Figurative, All Ability and Juniors. The main category is Landscape
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Shifting Sands of Land and Memory features a new series of acrylic paintings by Magan-djin/Brisbane-based artist Paula Payne. Drawing inspiration from recent time spent as Artist in Residence at the Broken Hill Art Exchange—located on Wilyakali Country in far-west New South Wales—this new series captures the emotive resonance of the surrounding landscapes. Payne’s abstracted recollections
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Arte Laguna Prize is the Venice-based International Contemporary Art Competition that welcomes and exhibits emerging artists of all ages, countries, genders and artistic backgrounds, and is free-themed. With two decades of experience, the competition offers numerous opportunities for participants to expand their contacts, gain global visibility and access crucial resources for career development. In the jury, as for each edition, prominent
The Olive Cotton Award is a $20,000 biennial national award for excellence in photographic portraiture in memory of photographer Olive Cotton. In 2025 the Gallery will celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the award. The finalist exhibition will be selected from entrants across Australia and is a significant opportunity for established and emerging photographers. The winning
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The 6th Tamworth Textile Triennial will launch in 2026 at Tamworth Regional Gallery before embarking on a two-year tour across Australia. Curated by artist Blake Griffiths, this prestigious exhibition invites Expressions of Interest from both emerging and established artists looking to showcase their textile-based artworks. The 6th Tamworth Textile Triennial builds on the tradition of
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Cheongju International Craft Competition, Korea, is calling for submissions of craft artworks reflecting trends in contemporary arts and crafts and conveying values of the future from artists from all over the world. Eligibility Any individual aged 18 or older or a team of such individuals are welcome to participate (no nationality restrictions apply). Work of
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Kyber Theatre is accepting applications for the 12th edition of “The Wonders of Possible,” Italy’s premier International Festival of Art, Theatre and New Technologies taking place in Cagliari between October and November 2025. This prestigious festival, recipient of the “EFFE Label 2024-2025” from the European Festival Association, focuses on the interrelation between artistic and technological
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The Lester Prize is one of Australia’s most prestigious portraiture prizes—an award that places artists and the community proudly front and centre. Established in 2007, we provide an avenue for artists across Australia to exhibit works of portraiture in Western Australia. Our annual prize pool of $130,000 is spread across two exhibitions and ten categories.
Postcards from Athens is a series of bold and energetic monotype prints inspired by the artist’s recent travels to Greece. Having been selected as finalist in the 2025 Australian Monoprint Prize, Jacqueline has recently been recognised for her talents in this medium. Connecting with her Greek heritage, the artist followed her interest in classical reference points and
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The Shape of Time combines two compelling exhibitions from Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contemporary craft and design practitioners. Together, these exhibitions offer a unique glimpse into the diverse and vibrant artistic making practices from across Queensland’s vast far north regions. MAIN GALLERY Explore how time is shaped by the land and made tangible through
Miranda Skoczek’s newest body of work, Paradise Garden, is imbued with moments of peace, joy, and life in bloom. This exhibition reflects her deep contemplation on our connection to nature, with electric pinks layered against muted purples and greens — an evolution of her previous palettes. Abstract flowers and organic vessels grace the canvases, forming
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RAT BOY is an exhibition of new paintings by Spencer Harvie, created over the past year. Drawing from a collection of found online images—ranging from the absurd to the abject, the paranormal to the art historical—Harvie reconfigures these sources, incorporating his own likeness, imagined characters, and surreal constructs. Harvie paints and reimagines images that both
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In response to our post-digital world, Alethea Richter’s Pulse Systems extends her engagement with digital fluidity and fixed structures through screenprinting. By translating digital marks alongside hand-generated marks, Richter explores the ephemeral qualities of screens—fluctuating luminosity, transient colours, and movement to create a dynamic works of expansion and contraction, that resists static interpretation. Exhibition celebration: Saturday April
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‘Breathe’ is David Fenoglio’s second exhibition with Jan Manton Gallery. His previous exhibition, “Squaring the Circle” in 2023, spoke of elements, minerals, and transmutation through processes of observation. This new series of oil paintings includes plants and natural forms arranged into serene compositions painted from life. Transferred into these paintings is the experience of directly
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We are delighted to announce Jacques’s upcoming solo exhibition at the Logan Art Gallery, showcasing the culmination of his four-year research conducted at the Queensland College of Art and Design (QCAD), Griffith University. As a Doctor of Visual Arts candidate (DVA), Jacques has dedicated his studies to exploring the visual representation of memory, focusing on
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Wildflowering by Design is an exhibition that explores contemporary responses to our botanical and wildflower heritage, presenting works by Queensland artists from various art and design fields. Many women, both well-known and unsung, have highlighted the significance, functionality and beauty of Australian wildflowers. These include Traditional Custodians, illustrators who have documented native plants, and artists and
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Please join us for the opening celebration of ‘Alana Hunt: Surveilling a Crime Scene (and other examinations)’ Open times: 6:00-8:00pm Film screening and Q&A from 6:30pm Image: Alana Hunt, Surveilling a Crime Scene, 2023 image still (detail), Super 8mm film transferred to digital file: 21:58 minutes, colour, sound, 4:3. Courtesy of the artist.
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‘tightly wound’ features textile works from Danish Quapoor’s recent good grief series, recontextualising them amongst related works. The title references both the laborious process of creating the works and the related personal memories, anxieties and catalytic concepts explored within. These include grief, memorialisation, prophesies, expectations, gender roles and sexuality. The works within ‘tightly wound’ were
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You Are Here Too presents a collection of works by contemporary Australian artists exploring queer desire and sexuality. It serves as both a celebration and a response to the groundbreaking 1992 show You Are Here at the Institute of Modern Art, which made history as Australia’s first exhibition featuring exclusively gay artists during the height of the AIDS