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2026 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing

The Adelaide Perry Gallery invites artists to submit work for the 2026 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, a nationally recognised award celebrating excellence in contemporary drawing. The Perry Prize is a $25,000 acquisitive award, recognising outstanding achievement in drawing as a contemporary art practice. In addition, a $2,000 People’s Choice Award (non-acquisitive) will also be […]

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BBA Artist Prize 2026

The BBA Artist Prize 2026 is now open for submissions, inviting artists worldwide to enter one of Berlin’s leading international art awards. Open to all artists aged 18+, the prize accepts all mediums and themes, with no restrictions on background or experience. Artists can submit up to five works and gain eligibility for the longlist,

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Arts Experience Fund

The Arts Experience Fund supports self-directed opportunities for New Zealand-based arts practitioners to build meaningful artistic and professional connections in Asia, including residencies, research tours, work placements, and exchanges. Purpose: Strengthen ties between Aotearoa and Asia Expand networks and open new opportunities Boost visibility and international engagement Eligibility: Individual artists (visual artists, writers, musicians, choreographers,

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FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video

FluxusMuseum is calling for experimental videos worldwide for its third edition. Open across art forms including visual art, dance, performance, film, animation, literature, theatre, music, and more. Submission requirements: Submit a video proposal (excerpt/presentation) up to 3 minutes Selection process and payments: Panel shortlists 100 videos which are uploaded to FluxusMuseumTV FluxusMuseumTV users participate in

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The Bald Archy Prize

Celebrating its 30th touring year, the Bald Archy Prize is one of Australia’s most beloved and irreverent art competitions. Known for its blend of satire, skill, and unmistakable Australian larrikin spirit, the prize invites artists to submit comic or satirical portraits of Australians distinguished in art, science, letters, politics, sport, or the media. Finalists compete

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SWELL Sculpture Festival 2026

SWELL Sculpture Festival invites artists to apply for Queensland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition, held at Currumbin Beach, Gold Coast. Open to emerging, mid-career, and professional artists workiSWELL Sculpture Festival invites artists to apply for Queensland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition, held at Currumbin Beach, Gold Coast. Open to emerging, mid-career, and professional artists working in sculpture,

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The Homiens Art Prize

The Homiens Art Prize awards over $12,000 USD annually to artists worldwide. Open to all art forms with no theme or size restrictions. Artists retain full ownership of their work. Winners and finalists are exhibited online and promoted internationally. Entry fee applies. Image: Lucas Stolz, Wabi Sabi, 2024. Finalist in the Homiens Art Prize (Winter, 2024).

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Muswellbrook Art Prize 2026

Established in 1958, the Muswellbrook Art Prize is one of the richest prizes for painting in regional Australia and has grown into a nationally respected award for modern and contemporary Australian art. Finalists compete for a total prize pool of $70,000 across three acquisitive categories: Painting – $50,000 (acquisitive) Works on Paper – $10,000 (acquisitive)

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Sculpture Bermagui 2026

Sculpture Bermagui will return in 2026 from 7–15 March, celebrating its 20th anniversary, and promises to be the best edition yet. Set beneath the auspicious gaze of Mount Gulaga, overlooking the pristine waters of Horseshoe Bay and the Tasman Sea beyond, Sculpture Bermagui invites audiences to experience contemporary sculpture within a setting of extraordinary natural

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Driven: Every Car Has a Story

Take a drive down memory lane with Driven, a free summer exhibition celebrating the cars that have shaped our lives. From the thrill of a first car to the milestone moments spent behind the wheel, this exhibition explores how vehicles become markers of identity, memory, and transition. Drawing from State Library’s extensive collections, Driven showcases

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Artist Talks – Dean Ansell, Seren Wagstaff, Spencer Harvie

Join artists Dean Ansell, Spencer Harvie, and Seren Wagstaff for a public conversation as part of Platform 2026, the Institute of Modern Art’s annual exhibition supporting emerging Queensland artists. The artists will speak about their practices, new works, and the ideas underpinning their contributions to the exhibition. Dean Ansell’s work draws on Melanesian mythologies and

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Konstantina: Mudang Butbut

Onespace proudly presents Mudang Butbut by Konstantina, closing the gallery’s exhibition program for the year. This new body of acrylic paintings on linen explores trees as metaphors for the living heart—repositories of memory, connection, and resilience. Through vibrant mark-making and rhythmic gesture, Konstantina translates the language of tree-growth into a visual meditation on identity, sovereignty,

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Rijksakademie Residency Programme

Rijksakademie is calling for national and international visual artists for its two-year residency in Amsterdam for the period January–December 2027, with the possibility of one additional year. Supports experimentation and open research in an interdisciplinary environment. Places: Around 23 artists selected each year Approximately 11 from the Netherlands and 12 international Support provided (as listed):

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Grandmothers

In Grandmothers, Aunty Shirley Yumala Collins honours the powerful and enduring role of grandmothers in Aboriginal cultures—knowledge holders, guides, protectors, and custodians of story and survival. Through paintings, prints, textiles, objects, artefacts and jewellery, Collins reflects on the deep cultural knowledge passed through generations by the matriarchs who bind families and communities together. A grandmother

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Middle World: Every change a continuation, every season a story

In Middle World: Every change a continuation, every season a story, Teho Ropeyarn carves his deep love for Cape York Country into an exhibition that maps the region’s shifting seasons. Through organic design and highly detailed vinyl-cut prints, Ropeyarn explores the interface between cultural memory and time, moving through the landscape in its wet, dry,

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Joel Sherwood Spring: Diggermode 2: Cloud Ceding

Wiradjuri artist Joel Sherwood Spring explores the logic and ethos of technocapitalism from a First Nations perspective. In 2023, at the Institute of Modern Art, he won the Churchie Emerging Art Prize with Diggermode, an audacious two-channel video essay which addressed mining as its subject and process. Spring returns with his sequel Diggermode 2: Cloud Ceding, an installation

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Kim Wilson: Luxury

Brisbane-based artist Kim Wilson returns to Mitchell Fine Art with her second solo exhibition, Luxury, a mesmerising body of work that honours the intricate beauty of the natural world while confronting the urgent reality of its fragility. Combining realism and surrealism, Wilson draws viewers into intimate, richly detailed scenes that foreground often-overlooked elements of nature—inviting

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Jane Guthleben: In the Sticks

Edwina Corlette Gallery presents ‘IN THE STICKS’, a new exhibition by Sydney-based artist Jane Guthleben, whose practice reimagines the still life tradition through a distinctly Australian lens. Guthleben draws upon the vanitas genre of the Dutch Golden Age, where flowers, books, and insects symbolised the transience of life and the fragility of human endeavour. In

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Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships 2026

Yuriyal Bridgeman (PNG/QLD), Teresa Busuttil (SA) and EJ Son (NSW) have been selected as recipients of the Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship for 2026. Each artist will receive a scholarship that provides institutional fees for one academic year, a tax-free allowance of $75,000, and travel expenses to a leading international art program of their choice.

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Prisma Art Prize – 18th Edition

The Prisma Art Prize is now accepting submissions for its 18th edition. This international art award provides a platform for painters, illustrators, and engravers to showcase their creativity, experiment with new ideas, and join a diverse community of contemporary artists. Key Opportunities Cash Prizes: €2000 distributed across four quarterly competitions Exhibition: Collective exhibition in Autumn

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WE CALL YOU! Sisters! Mothers! Workers!

WE CALL YOU! Sisters! Mothers! Workers! is the first Australian exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist and filmmaker Petra Bauer. The exhibition presents films from her long-term collaborative series Looking for Jeanne, developed with feminist activist organisations and collaborators including Southall Black Sisters, SCOT-PEP, Carolina Sinisalo, Marius Dybwad Brandrud, Frances Stacey, and Marta Dauliūtė. Drawing inspiration

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Video Art Miden 2026

Video Art Miden invites video artists and creators from around the world to submit works for its upcoming exhibitions and screening events in Greece and internationally. Founded in 2005 in Kalamata, Greece, Miden has evolved from being one of the first video art festivals in the country into a renowned global platform for experimental video

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Archie Moore: kith and kin

First Nations Peoples of Australia are among the oldest continuous living cultures on earth; Archie Moore’s kith and kin affirms this by tracing the artist’s Kamilaroi and Bigambul relations over 65,000+ years. The artist’s extensive drawing captures the common ancestors of all humans alongside animals, plants, waterways and landforms in order to emphasise our kinship responsibilities to

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to come together as water

to come together as water unites cultural and creative practices as an expansive reimagining of water protection. Across deep subterranean basins, inland rivers, tidal flats, coastlines and seas, the exhibition reflects on our shared responsibilities to saltwater and freshwater Country. Anchored by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and lived experience, artists translate how we care for place

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Yuriyal Bridgeman: Six2Six

This December, Milani Gallery presents Six2Six by Yuriyal Bridgeman, featuring new shield paintings, works on canvas, pit-pit blind paintings, and soil drawings by Haus Yuriyal. Taking its name from a Papua New Guinean expression for working or celebrating “from 6 to 6,” the exhibition captures the energy, rhythms, and communal gatherings of neighbouring villages —

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Public Sculpture: New Works by Ian Smith

In Public Sculpture, acclaimed Queensland artist Ian Smith presents a new series of sculptural works that extend his long-standing interest in structure, materiality, and the built environment. Born in Cairns and based in Brisbane, Smith has cultivated a five-decade career across painting, drawing, and three-dimensional practice. His work has been exhibited widely across Australia and

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