Grey Street Gallery – ដីមិនស្ងៀម ទឹកមិនស្ងប់ (The land is never still, the water is never quiet)Cambodian-Australian artist Nataly Lee explores memory, ritual, and place carried across time. Through gathering, stitching, layering, and binding, her works reflect on identity, spirituality, ecology, and the traces of what remains and what is missing. Project Gallery – Long Transient […]
The National Emerging Art Prize (NEAP) returns for its fifth and most expansive edition, now featuring a brand-new category for emerging photographers. With a total prize pool of $40,000, including an acquisitive top prize of $20,000, this unique program continues to champion Australia’s most promising unrepresented artists. NEAP is now calling for entries from unrepresented
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Hard Work is an exhibition of new work by Dominic Reidy and Jack Rodgers. Rodgers paints portraits of fishermen from photographs found on the walls of his local fishmonger. These paintings are a celebration of his family’s trips to the ‘fisho’ and a satirical poke at tanlines, beer guts and Aussie male past times. Reidy is
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Discover Australian Essence is a specially curated exhibition that celebrates the richness and diversity of Australia’s landscapes and cultural identity through painting, drawing, and mixed media works. From sweeping mountain ranges and serene rivers to urban scenes and native flora and fauna, this exhibition brings together a dynamic collection of contemporary Australian art. Spanning styles
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Reflections in the Water explores the intergenerational process of remembering through fragments of recreated archival material depicting the Cambodian countryside along the Mekong River. The immersive installation becomes a water sanctuary, highlighting the equally healing and destructive nature of this essential element in the tropical climate of Cambodia. Through recreated fragments of archival material, Chhorn invites
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Join IMA Adjunct Curator Stephanie Berlangieri alongside artists Stuart Ringholt and Giselle Stanborough as they discuss their works featured in Desire Is a Machine. This engaging artist talk explores themes of lived experience and the insights of psychosis, mediated identity and popular culture, and the role of memory, care, and environment in shaping the self.
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Outer Space is calling for proposals from emerging, early, and mid-career artists and curators across Australia to present new and ambitious work in their 2026 exhibition program. Based in Magandjin (Brisbane), Outer Space is a platform for experimentation—supporting exhibitions that challenge and expand contemporary practice. What’s Offered: $2,000 artist fee (solo) / $1,000 per artist
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A local art show shaped by instinct, memory, and a blend of upcycled and new materials. Berlin-born, Brisbane-based artist Nina Kelm invites you into a tactile, joyfully chaotic creative world—where packaging, found objects, and layered textures are reimagined into gut-led artworks, thoughtfully presented in handmade floating frames. www.linktr.ee/ninakelm
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Kyoto Art Center invites emerging visual artists and researchers to apply for its Artist-in-Residence Program 2026. This opportunity supports creative development through cultural exchange in Kyoto, Japan. Eligibility: Emerging visual artists or researchers Must demonstrate a clear reason for staying in Kyoto Ability to conduct a public exchange project Must communicate in English or Japanese
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Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present Arenas, the first solo exhibition by Archer Davies with the gallery. This body of work was inspired by time spent at Brisbane’s iconic Royal Queensland Show, The Ekka, alongside fellow artist Lucy Culliton in 2024. Drawn to the contrasts between human performance and quiet animal presence, Davies’ works
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Jan Manton Gallery presents AFTERLIGHT, a new photographic series by Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Christopher Allery. Known for his meditative, light-driven imagery, Allery’s practice navigates the emotional and narrative potentials of photography through quiet encounters with place, memory, and light. AFTERLIGHT emerges from travels through Japan and Australia, where shifting weather, solitude, and cinematic influences inform the
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Join this panel discussion exploring cultural continuity as an act of resistance within the context of Indigenous diaspora in Australia. Through the lens of artistic practice, the conversation will reflect on how culture is sustained, adapted, and reimagined across generations and geographies. Panelists: Makayla Dass Morgan Nanai Brown Nisa Isabel Maria Yam Chan Lopez Richy
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Arteventura offers professional artists—including visual artists, writers, musicians, performers, architects, duos, or groups—a chance to immerse themselves in 25 hectares of cork and holm oak forest in inland Andalusia. The residency is off-grid and ecologically focused, providing silence, space, autonomy, and essential facilities like self-catering apartments (up to 4 artists at a time) and a
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In Auto Poem, Kitty Horton presents a new body of abstract work shaped by the rhythms of daily life, studio practice, and motherhood. Using oil paint, oil stick, beeswax, and tape, Horton explores abstraction as both a process and a release—allowing intuitive gestures to shape her compositions. Balancing saturated tones with soft pastels, and rough
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Creative Australia’s Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups grant supports a wide range of artistic activity across all practices. Open to Australian resident practicing artists and arts professionals, this program funds between $10,000 and $50,000 for activities such as: Professional skills development (mentoring, residencies) Creation of new work, research, experimentation, collaborations and exchanges Touring, festivals,
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The Ancient PRESENT II presents powerful works by four Anmatyerr women artists from the Utopia region in the Northern Territory: Kathleen Kngale, Polly Kngale, Angelina Kngale, and Emily Kngwarreye. This exhibition reflects a profound legacy of cultural continuity, storytelling, and artistic innovation within Aboriginal painting traditions. On the ground floor, Kathleen Kngale’s stippled paintings map
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Copenhagen Photo Festival invites photographers and visual artists from around the world to apply for its 2026 solo exhibition program. Selected artists will have the unique opportunity to present work at the iconic Royal Danish Theatre or its surrounding spaces in the heart of Copenhagen. The 2026 theme, Forestillinger | Scenarios, invites artists to explore
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Light and Land brings together eight mid-career Australian artists—Sally Anderson, Bridie Gillman, Dan Kyle, Ross Laurie, Joanna Logue, Eleanor Louise Butt, Carbiene McDonald Tjangala, and Candy Nelson Nakamarra—who are reimagining landscape painting through abstraction. Rather than depict what is seen, these artists use painting to express memory, emotion, cultural heritage, and connection to place. The
Jan Murphy Gallery presents Ekka, Lucy Culliton’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Known for painting what’s close at hand—her animals, her garden, her home in Bibbenluke—Culliton’s work brims with warmth, detail, and affection for the rural world around her. Ekka was inspired by her 2024 visit to the Royal Queensland Show in Brisbane, where
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FERTILE TERRAINS brings together Queensland College of Art and Design graduates Diane Green, Leisa Turner, and Pat Malt in a multidisciplinary exhibition that explores care, identity, and resistance through a distinctly feminist lens. Across photography, ceramics, embroidery, drawing, and painting, each artist offers a deeply personal reflection on contemporary female experience. Leisa Turner presents staged
Long term collaborators, FS Helfisch and Nancy Brown, create a new installation for Logan Art Gallery that explores their shared interest in decorative pattern-making to reconcile everyday experience with art. Image: FS Helfisch, Every home should have one (detail), 2023, acrylic on wood. Courtesy the artist.
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AiR Green is a residency program for professional artists working with textile media or related projects, offered by Norwegian Textile Artists (NTK) at Søndre Green Farm, Noresund, Norway. Two types of residencies are available: AiR Green (4 weeks, 4 artists): Includes NOK 5,000 grant + travel reimbursement up to NOK 3,500. Free accommodation and studio.
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fortyfivedownstairs contains two elegant gallery spaces. The large gallery is a blank canvas, open plan space with two pillars in the centre of the room. The small gallery is also an open plan space, with a single pillar in the middle of the space. The walls in both galleries are painted white and are brick
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The Homiens Art Prize is one of the highest paying art prizes maintained by an independent art gallery, awarding artists over $12,000 USD annually. Our prize is open to all artists and art forms internationally. We celebrate our chosen artists across our media, exhibiting their art online where it is viewed by artists and collectors
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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 Hawkesbury Art Prize is a biennial award open to Australian artists for a painting, drawing, or work on paper that reflects contemporary Australian identity. The prize excludes photography, textiles, embroidery, and sculpture. The 2025 exhibition will be held at Purple Noon Gallery, Freemans Reach, NSW, from 30 August to 14 September 2025. Image:
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Now in its 10th year, the Waverley Woollahra Art School’s 9×5 Landscape Art Prize invites artists to explore Australia’s Impressionist tradition. Entrants receive a 9×5-inch plywood board to create their landscape artwork, echoing the spontaneity of early outdoor painters. The prize aims to celebrate the spirit of Australian Impressionism and offers a platform for artists
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Life and death are deeply personal, yet universal experiences — and art has a unique way of helping us connect, reflect, and begin the conversations that matter most. The Live Well, Die Well Art Prize, presented by Palliative Care Australia and Arcare, invites artists of all ages and abilities to share their creative vision on the
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Entries are now open for the 2025 Pro Hart Outback Art Prize, an esteemed national acquisitive art award presented by Broken Hill City Art Gallery. This prize invites artists working in any medium to submit works that capture the spirit, culture, or landscape of the Australian Outback.
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The Young Paddo Art Prize is a national competition for artists aged 5–18 years, focusing on A4 paintings on paper inspired by the Australian landscape and environment. There are four age categories with cash prizes: $500 for winners and $250 for honorable mentions. Twenty finalists will be selected for an exhibition at Art Leven Gallery
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The Gallery One Smallacombe Self Portrait Prize is a national Australian painting competition inviting artists to create and submit a self-portrait. Open to all permanent Australian residents, the competition emphasizes painting mediums only — digital or AI art is excluded. Only one entry is allowed per artist, and the submitted work must be a 2D
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Since its inception in 2001, the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award has become a significant national award dedicated to celebrating and elevating the significance of work on paper. The Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award promotes excellence and innovation in the field of art on paper while supporting and encouraging artists who specialise in this medium.
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The Brisbane Powerhouse, once a power station serving the city, was reimagined and brought to life 25 years ago as a community hub for the arts. Poised on the tip of the New Farm peninsula, Brisbane Powerhouse is a building of enduring physical presence. It is a place that welcomes and supports all of Brisbane’s
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Jun Chen (b. 1960, Guangzhou, China) emigrated to Australia in 1990 and currently lives and works in Brisbane. Chen has become one of Australia’s most prominent impasto painters – working in both landscape and portraiture, his luscious oil renderings are admired for their exquisite execution and allure. Growing up during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76), Chen
Brisbane artist Stephen Nothling returns with Home and Away, a rich and playful exhibition exploring everyday moments, domestic memories, and curious travels through painterly observation. In this vibrant new series, Nothling’s oil and mixed-media works capture both the mundane and the magical — a banana tree in the backyard, a monkey puzzle tree in Scotland,
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As Artificial Intelligence increasingly encroaches on our lives, artists grapple with the implications of this technology on art. Can artists harness the power of AI to inform their art making, or should the technology be excluded from the privileged space of creativity? Five QCAD artists come together to explore this question. Featuring Christina Lowry, Fiona
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