The Condensery invites proposals from artists to present work in its unique bomb shelter exhibition space in 2026. Built in the 1940s as a wartime archive repository, the 24m² concrete space (6 x 4 metres) is darkened with minimal wall-hanging options and wood columns, making it well suited to video, sound or digital work, sculpture, […]
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The A4 Residency Art Center in Chengdu, China, invites multidisciplinary artists, curators, designers, and cultural practitioners to apply for its 2026–2027 International Residency Program. Since 2011, A4 has hosted over 190 creators from 36 countries, fostering cross-cultural collaboration and connecting creative practices with local communities and commerce. Selected residents will immerse themselves in Chengdu’s vibrant
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The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize is an international award celebrating innovation, artistic vision, and mastery in contemporary craft. Open to professional artists and artisans worldwide—including Brisbane-based makers—the prize seeks outstanding works that update traditional techniques or introduce new approaches to materials and process. Prize: Winner: €50,000 Two Special Mentions: €5,000 each Up to 30 finalists
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Step inside the mind of one of history’s greatest creative thinkers with Da Vinci Machines: Inventions Brought to Life, a spectacular international exhibition on loan from the Museum of Leonardo da Vinci in Florence, Italy. Featuring 60 of Leonardo da Vinci’s original inventions, meticulously reconstructed from his sketches, the exhibition offers an interactive experience with
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Agnes Contemporary presents a large-scale group exhibition featuring works by over 40 artists, showcasing a diverse range of contemporary practices across painting, sculpture, installation, and mixed media. Participating Artists Include:Grace Dewar, Jacob Boylan, Jacquie Meng, Jordan Azcune, Jordan Malane, Kathryn Dolby, Kim Stokes, Laurie Oxenford, Leif Prenzlau, Lex Williams, Liv Enquist, Loralee Jade, Louis Grant,
Fragments That Hold explores identity as something fluid, shaped by migration, memory, and community. Drawing from the ceramicist’s own experience of moving between cultures, these works emerge from in-between spaces where new forms of belonging take shape. Clay lies at the centre of this practice. Like the migrant experience, it is soft and transformable, shaped
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The Camden Art Prize is an annual competition and exhibition in Camden, NSW. It offers a prize pool of AUD $14,000, including a major First Prize of $10,000. Finalists’ works will be exhibited at the Camden Civic Centre.
The Nyland Prize is a photography award associated with the Kennedy Prize exhibition in Adelaide, offering $5,000 for the most outstanding photographic work interpreting the theme of “Beauty.” Open to Australian photographers, this prize celebrates exceptional photographic art and runs alongside the Kennedy Prize. Image: Nyland Prize 2024 Winner, Alan Moyle, “Reuben Kaye”
Each year, the Spruill Gallery in Dunwoody, Georgia, accepts nationwide submissions for its AMPLIFY mural competition. The winning artist will receive a $10,000 prize, and their mural will be installed on the side of the Spruill Smoke House outside the gallery for the coming year. The call is open to individual artists or art teams
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Cascade Art Concept invites you to the opening of Air Strips, an exhibition showcasing the work of Sherrie Knipe. Known for her sculptural explorations of memory and materiality, Knipe’s practice frequently draws on everyday objects and poetic juxtapositions. Image: Recliner, 2023.
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Melissa Nguyen has been awarded the $30,000 Overall Prize for ‘the churchie’ emerging art prize 2025, with her diptych The Last Great Dynasty and Royal Bloodlines. Selected by guest judge Myles Russell-Cook (Artistic Director and CEO of ACCA), Nguyen’s work is celebrated for its quiet power, exploring themes of identity, ancestry, and diasporic dissonance through
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Letters Home is a new body of work by Sam Harrison that explores the limitations of language in expressing deeply personal and culturally nuanced experiences. Through powerful visual storytelling, Harrison questions whether colonial languages can truly hold space for emotions and meanings shaped by vastly different belief systems. The exhibition considers how language is structured
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The MAC yapang Art Prize is a new national art prize launched by the Museum of Art and Culture (MAC), Lake Macquarie. Open to Australian artists working in any medium or discipline, the prize has a total pool of over $40,000. The main award is a $30,000 acquisitive prize, with additional $5,000 awards for an
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The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award is an annual art award and exhibition held in Campbelltown, NSW. Now in its 63rd year, the award invites Australian artists to submit works across a variety of categories and mediums, with over $60,000 in prize money available. The highlight is the acquisitive Open Award, valued at $50,000, which is
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The Portia Geach Memorial Award is Australia’s most prestigious art prize for portraiture by women artists. Valued at $30,000, this non-acquisitive prize is awarded for the best portrait painted from life of a distinguished person. It is open to female Australian artists (including those British-born who are Australian residents). Established in 1961, this award continues
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Fantastic Forms celebrates the creative practice of Merric Boyd (1888–1959), often referred to as Australia’s father of studio pottery. This exhibition features over 150 drawings and ceramics from the Bundanon Collection, presented in conversation with works by contemporary artists Nabilah Nordin, Stephen Benwell, and Rubyrose Bancroft. Beginning with Boyd’s playful and spiritual approach to pottery
John Honeywill (b. 1952, Brisbane) is a still life painter living and working in Brisbane. An accomplished art educator for much of his professional life, Honeywill now focusses solely on his painting practice. His meticulous and inquisitive works continue the tradition of still life painting with the artist describing – “I paint the quiet visual conversations
Wentworth Galleries invites emerging artists from Brisbane and greater Queensland to submit work for an exciting Pop-Up Exhibition in 2025. This is a call for bold, curious, and creative early-career artists ready to present fresh and engaging work in a professional commercial gallery setting. There are no set themes or categories—just bring your best. Accepted
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People’s persistent interest in self-image is explored in this touring exhibition from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Collection. Looking Out, Looking In: Exploring the Self-Portrait highlights richly diverse approaches to the enduring artistic genre, drawing from QAGOMA’s Australian, Indigenous Australian, Asia Pacific, and International collections. In an age when digital
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The Little Things Art Prize invites artists to reflect on the small moments, gestures, or details that bring happiness or gratitude. Rooted in the principles of Positive Psychology, the prize promotes wellbeing through creativity and community engagement. Each year, selected finalists are exhibited in a vibrant, joyful celebration of life’s overlooked but meaningful moments. The
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Mock Sun for an Inverted Daisy is an installation by artist Tay Haggarty that uses the warmth of the sun as an entry-point for archiving queer and trans joy. The artworks selected for display in The Condensery’s bomb shelter form part of a larger series, titled Sun on Bare Back (SOBB), which were created prior to
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Queer Here returns for its third year as a vibrant celebration of LGBTQIA+ creative voices in Meanjin/Brisbane. Presented by the Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University, in proud partnership with Brisbane Pride Inc., this inclusive group exhibition invites artists to express their stories, identities, and visions across all mediums. There is no set
The Du Rietz Art Awards are the premier visual arts competition for the Gympie region, celebrating excellence in 2D and 3D visual art from across Australia. Named after the architect of the historic School of Arts building that houses the gallery, the Awards aim to showcase a stunning range of artistic talent and vision. With
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The Cité Internationale des Arts is a non-profit international arts centre in Paris, offering studio accommodation for artists and scholars from around the world. In partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian visual artists and researchers are invited to apply for a three-month studio residency in either the Moya Dyring Studio or
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Applications have reopened for artists, collectives, and curators to be considered for the 2026–2028 exhibition program at Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland and the RPAC Mezzanine. This is a professional opportunity open to contemporary practitioners working across a wide range of media and disciplines. Expressions of Interest are submitted via SmartyGrants. If you didn’t apply in
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Following its debut at CIAF 2025, Onespace Gallery proudly presents Post Truth, a striking solo exhibition by Darren Blackman. This new body of work features LED neon text-based sculptures that blend political commentary with pop sensibility, reimagining language as illuminated art. A proud Gureng Gureng and South Sea Islander artist, Blackman draws on lived experience
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Museum of Brisbane’s major new exhibition, Precious, brings together over 3,000 extraordinary objects from 30 remarkable collections and collectors. For the first time, these treasured items—often hidden away in suburban homes and institutions—are on public display, offering a rare glimpse into Brisbane’s diverse collecting culture. From Queensland Rugby League memorabilia and international dolls to wind-up
Greenhouses and gardens are a way to escape time and place, offering a means for community building, creativity and experimentation amidst climate change. They are spaces where synthetic environments can be manufactured to protect, cultivate and propagate plants; spaces where both humans and other organisms can grow together; and, where we can improve knowledge in
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‘Suburban Sublime’ explores how artists have used photography to interpret the Australian suburbs. The exhibition brings together works that pause to reflect on everyday settings, places, and people, imbuing them with aesthetic, historical, and emotional significance. Image: Tracey Moffatt, Australia b.1960 / Picturesque Cherbourg no.1 (from ‘Picturesque Cherbourg’ series within the ‘Spirit landscapes’ series) 2013 /
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Award-winning conceptual artist Christina Lowry presents Ex Libris, a poetic and interdisciplinary response to avian extinction, mourning, and the museum. Through sculpture, taxidermy, photography, and installation, Lowry explores ecological loss, memory, and speculative archives. The exhibition challenges extractive traditions with her concept of non-remnant taxidermy—sculptural representations of animals created without their physical remains. Viewers encounter
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For millions of years, caves have symbolised sanctuary, reflection, and creative experimentation. In Cave, Tara Marynowsky draws from this metaphorical space to explore femininity, suburbia, pop culture, and nature through chaotic energy, layered humour, and vivid colour. The exhibition features works ranging from delicate watercolours to large oil and acrylic canvases, created over the past
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Terramurmur presents a collection of drawings developed during the process of a larger painting series. These works are not preparatory sketches, but stand-alone moments within a broader, evolving narrative. They reflect themes not yet fully formed—murmurings of half-seen characters, ambiguous relationships, and intersections of marks and meaning. As artist Nameer Davis describes, the exhibition offers
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To mark 60 years of creative excellence, Eckersley’s launches its inaugural Art & Craft Prize, offering a $25,000 prize pool ($20K first prize, $4K second, $1K third). It’s open to artists across Australia working in 2D and 3D using analogue materials. A finalist exhibition will be held at Hazelhurst Arts Centre in Sydney, giving national
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Returning for its second year, Handmade in Japan with OKAERI invites you to experience the elegance, beauty, and enduring traditions of Japanese craftsmanship. Hosted at Vacant Assembly throughout July, this thoughtfully curated showcase celebrates functional art from local Japanese artists and artisan makers across Japan. Discover handcrafted ceramics, paper lanterns, natural fragrances, and finely made
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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
Submissions are now open for Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2026, held in Perth, Western Australia. Artists at all stages of their careers — from emerging to senior — are invited to submit sculptural works of any material, type, form, or scale. Submission requirements include: High-resolution image(s) or artist impression of your proposed work Your
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