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The A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize

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The A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize is awarded biennially to Australian artists who have demonstrated talent and achievement in traditional styles. This includes realist, figurative and representational styles. The Art Prize is intended to encourage, support and advance classical training of emerging artists (in their early to mid-career) at any stage of life, who are pursuing the […]

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Life After War

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Life after War is an art prize that reflects on life after war. You are invited to reflect this theme by creating either: an original 2D artwork in a medium of your choice. a literary piece in the form of a poem or short story of not more than 2000 words. EXHIBITION November 9th to

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Burnie Print Prize

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The Burnie Print Prize brings the best of contemporary print art to Burnie by print artists from the Oceania region. An initiative of Burnie Regional Art Gallery supported by the Friends of the Gallery. For more information – download the application form Image:  Winner Burnie Print Prize 2017, Patricia Wilson-Adams NSW Positions 1 to 3, 2016,

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The BAM Art Prize

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The BAM Art Prize is designed to promote awareness of the arts in the Northern Rivers by presenting a national art prize within the region. The winner will be featured on the cover of BAM. Open to all artists nationwide, this new, non-acquisitive prize is for works of art in any medium. The inaugural prize

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Minimalist Collage Workshop with Michelle Eskola

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Join current Artist-in-Residence, Michelle Eskola for a hands-on workshop where she will guide you through her approach to collage making through minimalist abstraction and a mindful engagement with materials. Michelle is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice traverses painting, textile, and installation, often incorporating repetitious iconography and labour intensive techniques. In this workshop Michelle will assist

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Van Eyck Residency Call

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Artists, designers, curators, photographers, (landscape) architects, writers, and critics are invited to apply for a residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands for 6 up to 12 months in 2019. Every applicant shares our belief that insight comes through exchange with other: insight in the meaning of things, in your own practice, in

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Blacktown City Art Prize

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Entries for the 2018 Blacktown City Art Prize are now open. Now in its 23rd year, the Blacktown City Art Prize is a highly valued art prize, with cash prizes of $20,000 and acquisitive awards. Local, regional and national artists are invited to submit entries in drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics and mixed media. The winner of the Blacktown

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9×5 Landscape Prize

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Capture a painted impression of a landscape on 9×5. Following in the footsteps of impressionists Streeton, Roberts, Condor and McCubbin, in 2016 we launched our inaugural 9×5 Landscape Prize.  Entry in the 9×5 Prize may be paintings in any medium, including oil, acrylic or watercolour. The theme is open. Prizes: The 9×5 First Prize: $1,000. The 9×5

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Class and Art Workshop

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As a part of the forthcoming Outer Space exhibition “Class Act” curated by Lisa Bryan-Brown, Llewellyn Millhouse has been invited to facilitate a public program in response to the topic of class. Please come participate in a free workshop involving games and activities designed to generate discussion around the concept of class, with a particular

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AiR Tilburg

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Open international call to visual artists, curators and art theorists/writers to apply for the 2019/2020 residency programme at AiR Tilburg in the Netherlands. SEA Foundation – AiR Tilburg – invites applicants for its 2019/2020 residency program. The residencies are designed for the 21st-century art professional – visual artists, curators and art theorists/writers – whose work

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Ceramics Workshop

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Enjoy a hands-on ceramics workshop led by Mieke and Charlie De Deyne, the mother and daughter duo behind Mas & Miek Ceramic House. The workshop will take inspiration from L.J. Harvey’s teaching methods and the ceramics featured in With Heart & Hand: Art Pottery in Queensland 1900-1950. You’ll hand build your own piece using pinching, coiling,

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HEART OF THE CITY

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Join Uber in lighting up Brisbane with Heart of the City — a vibrant light show installation featuring new art by Sofles. Immerse yourself in a luminous visual storytelling experience combining street art, 3D mapping, and motion design. Heart of the City is a celebration of Brisbane and the locals that continue to brighten our

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Backbone Artists Residencies

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Backbone’s Open Source Residency Program is designed to support individuals, groups or collectives of young artists from any background or discipline to move their practice and careers to the next level and beyond. 2019 Open Source Residents will receive: – Three months of free space at Backbone’s venue in East Brisbane. (Residency times: January –

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Coptic Bookbinding Workshop

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Learn the traditional craft of Coptic bookbinding in this exclusive workshop hosted by Red Hill’s quaint little bookstore, Scrumptious Reads, where in addition to making 2 different Coptic-bound books, you’ll also be treated to a delicious lunch box (provided by Three Girls Skipping, the cute cafe next door), snacks and drinks throughout the afternoon. Every

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The Waller Award

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The Waller Art Prize, an inaugural art prize and exhibition, will be first held in October, 2018 at Trades Hall, Bendigo. Every year the BendArts Festival invites artists to submit entries for the The Waller Art Prize. The most outstanding works, as judged by the selection panel, is awarded an non-acquisitive cash prize pool of

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The Young Artist Award 

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The Young Artist Award began as an initiative of the RQAS (Brisbane Branch) in 2016 and was originally open to all Queensland residents 17 to 30. The award is designed to encourage and support young artists in the pursuit of excellence This Biennial season the RQAS is excited to announce that The Young Artist Award has now opened up

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Shirley Macnamara: Layered threads

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‘A landscape of spinifex rings’ is how this acclaimed senior Indigenous artist from north-west Queensland describes the suspended woven work that forms the centrepiece of her exhibition. Working with Triodia (spinifex), a native grass common to this arid landscape, Shirley Macnamara’s contemporary fibre art stands for generations of traditional knowledge, the resilience of her people, and the

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Liam Hollinger

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Liam is a Brisbane-based artist regularly exhibiting locally. His work may be understood as an exploration of self-awareness through mediums painting and drawing. As such, instead of thinking only what the painting is ‘about,’ it moves to the idea of what the painting ‘does’ as a means for self-discovery and transformation.  His visual formalities and

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People Like Us

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People Like Us captures universal aspects of the contemporary human condition in film, animation, digital and interactive art. In a diverse collection of recent new media works by Australian and international practitioners, the exhibition also reveals the many experimental technologies being deployed by artists as they comment on issues confronting us in the 21st century. A

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Exteriors

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Exteriors literally describes that which is outside: physically, metaphorically, geographically. But how are our relationships with the outer influenced by our interior perceptions, experiences and habits? Exteriors offers this theme from a myriad of angles; organic vistas, urban façades, human guises and disguises, exoteric facts and fictions, the outwardly mundane and the fantastically exotic. Artists: Clinton Barker,

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Sculpture Speakeasy

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SCULPTURE SPEAKEASY by Mark du Potiers A One Night Secret Show at Queensland College of Art, South Bank SAT 22 SEPT, 6pm – 9pm (Artist talk at 7pm) To find it, follow the directions below… BIG! FUN. and in SECRET.. In the 1920s, only the people in the know could find the place to let

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AFTM Outsider Art Awards

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Everyone is invited to join us for the biggest event of the year – 2018 Art from the Margins Outsider Art Awards Exhibition. For the past 11 years, Art from the Margins has been exhibiting the work of artists living with mental health issues, physical or intellectual disabilities, homelessness or experiencing social isolation. AFTM has

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