Photo Cafè is a once-a-month informal get-together, offering various topics of discussion and a general meeting of people with similar interests in photography. Let’s Talk Filters February 11th, 5-8 pm Limited places, more information, and booking here.  Drink and refreshments on the night.

Are you an artist or creative looking to exhibit with GRAGM? We are looking for expressions of interest from artists and creatives for exhibition-based proposals for the 2021-2022 years to be exhibited within the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum (GRAGM) suite of exhibition spaces which include Town Hall Gallery, Front…

 Join the multidisciplinary Drawn Thread artist Michelle Vine for a fun adventure into soft sculpture as you subversively repurpose household appliances into soft, furry, colourful companions.  What better way to kick back at the drudgery of domestic chores than to craft your way to a humorous subversion of tools of domestic…

Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize – Advancing Art and Opportunity Australian Art – Any Medium – All Women The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize is an annual acquisitive prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established women artists in Australia. It is the highest…

The Muswellbrook Art Prize is an acquisitive art competition held anually. This competition is launched early in the year, with entry forms usually becoming available towards the end of the previous year. We recommend you subscribe to the Art Centre’s Email newsletter, or follow us on Facebook for announcements of the Muswellbrook Art…

Celebrating the legacy of John Glover, The John Glover Art Prize (Glover Prize) has become one of Australia’s most significant awards for landscape painting, open to artists from anywhere in the world. It is awarded annually by The John Glover Society Inc. for the work judged the best contemporary landscape…

The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing is a $25,000 acquisitive art award among the most significant of its kind in the country. Inaugurated in 2006, the Prize is generously supported by the Parents and Friends’ Association of PLC Sydney. Named in honour of respected painter, printmaker and draughtswoman, Miss Adelaide Elizabeth Perry  (1891-1973) who taught…

The Footscray Art Prize is a biennial visual art prize for contemporary artworks across multiple platforms and disciplines. It is open for entries nationally and does not have a theme. Established in 2016, it contributes to Footscray’s reputation as a thriving cultural hub that supports and fosters the arts, and…

Twice a year Landskrona Foto Residency welcomes an early to mid-career photographer or artist working with photography and/or lens-based media, who wishes to further and challenge their practice, to Landskrona, to engage in a project related to the city. PRACTICAL INFO It’s an opportunity for a non-Swedish photographer or artist…

Submissions open 27 Nov 2020 | Submissions close 24 Jan 2021 Are you a teen who is passionate about design and art? The national Teens: Motorcycle Helmet Design competition invites budding designers and artists between the ages of 13 and 18 to submit a design for a motorcycle helmet. Take…

The virtual residency is a gathering of artists. …who work in sync, support one another and use a change in pace to think differently about their creative practice. Now recruiting artists for the following dates: 24-29 January 2021 (Deadline for applications 27 December 2020) 31 January – 5 February 2021…

WE INVITE ARTIST APPLICATIONS FOR THE 19TH SWELL SCULPTURE EXHIBITION TO BE HELD ALONG CURRUMBIN BEACH & WALKWAY ON AUSTRALIA’S GOLD COAST FROM SEPTEMBER 10-19 2021. HIGHLIGHTS Artist submissions can comprise of completed works, works in progress or concepts Entries close 31st January 2021 at midnight Exhibition dates for our 2021 exhibition…

The Collaborative Mentorship Initiative offers early-career practitioners the unique opportunity to work one-on-one with advising artists and arts workers to inspire confidence and self-awareness, and to build the knowledge, skills and capacity to pursue projects and goals. This program, to be completed over four months, is based on a mutual mentorship…

Deggendorf City- and Craft-Museum will present the 5th Paper Global, the International Paper Arts Triennale in 2021. A call is open to paper artists to submit artworks. The focus is on the large judged art exhibition of paper art. It will open on 19th June 2021 to celebrate a large paper festival…

A call for artworks and for papers is open on the theme ‘Cities of the future: living together’ for Creativity and Cognition 2021, a global conference and exhibition on creativity and cognition to be held in Venice in June 2021.Note different deadlines for the two calls. Creativity involves the generation, exploration, and interpretation of…

Lofoten International Art Festival – LIAF is a biennial for contemporary art that takes place in the Lofoten Islands and the wider Northern Norway region. LIAF now seeks a curator or curators for LIAF 2022, with a project period extending from April 1, 2021 to November 1, 2022. The biennial has roots…

The Seventh Edition of the International Awards for Art Criticism (IAAC 7) 2020 is open to candidates from anywhere in the world writing in Chinese or English about any contemporary art exhibition held anywhere in world or, for the first time this year, on-line between 15 September 2019 and 20…

The museum residence ‘Artкommunalka. Erofeev and Others’ and Kolomna Old Merchant District Creative and Museum Cluster, with support of the Culture Ministry of the Moscow Region and the Center for Creative Initiatives, are holding an open international competition among artists and writers to receive grants for the realization of creative projects in the…

AADK Spain invites all artists and researchers who wish to work on the topics of body, territory and spatiality to participate in its Artistic Residency Program 2021. For this call, priority (not exclusive) will be given to intervention proposals developed in the landscape, conceived from any creative discipline (sound, performance,…

Il Varco invites you to join the second edition of the Passepartout Photography Prize, a photography contest born to promote and widen the exposure of emerging photographers. Our mission is to be your “Passe-partout” – which means a master key and also a framing method to enhance the power of…

All UK & International artists are invited to apply for the Visual Art Open Prize 2021. Presented by the Visual Artists Association, the prestigious VAO 2021 Prize is now celebrating its fifth edition and offers an £8,000 Prize Fund. • All mediums across 5 categories: Painting/Mixed Media/Printmaking – Illustration/Drawing –…

Take part in our Scheduled programs for Educators, Artists + Artsworkers and Young Artists, and check out our brand new Program Hotspots in Brisbane. Don’t see what you need? By Request programs are also available for on-demand delivery. Download the full 2020 Annual Program For more information please visit the – Website

This event is in-person. Register to let us know you’re coming and please read our COVID Safe guidelines  before attending. If you are unwell please cancel your booking. To celebrate Miffy’s 65th birthday, QUT Literary Salon present an intimate workshop at QUT Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition miffy & friends. Join…

Lisa Behan and Donna McDonald present a lively half-day workshop titled, ‘Artful Engagement’, held in Side Gallery’s event space. The skills we learn and use to engage with art can have practical use in our daily lives. In this workshop, Lisa and Donna guide participants through immersive, artful practices for…

Lab.17 art contest, is a call for submissions open to all kind of artists. Works allowed in the art competition are: drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, graphics, mix media and video. A great opportunity for the artists, which can win a cash prize, have the opportunity to exhibit the artworks and…

CALLOUT: Artist in Residence Opportunities for Sculptors and Object Makers. 4 x 3 month residencies available in 2021 @ Sculptors Qld venue ‘The Shed’. Located at 480 Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills, the Sculptors QLD ‘Shed’ is a wooden building set in the grounds of the historic Old Museum Building. ‘The…

Art In The Dark is an experiential workshop created by artist Katrin Terton in collaboration with blind art enthusiast Geoff Munck, who developed a unique technique that harnesses the power of language to enable both the blind and sighted to enjoy a comparable experience of visual culture. This 3-hour workshop…

TELEPHONE is a global art project based on the children’s game Telephone (also called Operator, Grapevine, Telefono Roto, Dengon, Stille Poste, Telefono Descompuesto, Phonebook), in which a message is whispered from person to person. In this game, the message is whispered from art form to art form. A poem could…

Our popular MoB Makers: Drawing the Body series returns to Museum of Brisbane with a twist! Join us in the Dome Gallery for a guided workshop led by Artist in Residence Tori-Jay Mordey. Learn how to join the face through contemporary portraiture techniques, in an intimate setting with all materials…

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST NOW OPEN FOR PERFORMANCE MAKERS AND PRESENTERS TO BE PART OF THE 2021 ANYWHERE FESTIVAL, RUNNING 6-23 MAY. Anywhere Festival is a two and a half week festival of discovery from comedy in backyards, dance in hedge mazes, theatre in light houses, circus in driveways and music…

Land Art Mongolia 6th Biennial 2021 – A Nomadic Horizon announces a call for proposals, seeking applications from emerging and mid-career artists. Experience in environmental art or public urban art is requested. The program is designed to pursue personal creative work and share in collegial interaction within the community of Mongolian and international artists,…

The call for applications for artists to participate in the fifteenth edition of Horizons Sancy is online. Proposals are invited for temporary site-specific works to be installed in the natural environment. The Horizons “Arts-Nature” in Sancy event, programmed for 12th June till 19th September 2021, will be the fifteenth contemporary…

The Access Arts Achievement Award provides up to $10,000 funding for Queensland artists, arts workers and producers with disability working in any art form to create, develop, present, produce, exhibit, and tour their work. This is a fantastic opportunity to extend the life of an existing work, or create a…

We currently have two Call for Proposals open: 2021 Exhibition Program Applications open:  Monday 28 September 2020 Information session: Saturday 3 October / 4.30pm Applications close: Sunday 18 October 2020 / 11:59pm AEST See further information and download guidelines below. 2021 Artist in Residence Program Applications open:  Monday 28 September 2020 Information session: Saturday…

Hosted by CHRIS BENNIE Photographers, philosophers, poets, sculptors, thinkers, tinkerers and mark makers…join us for an afternoon of plein air art making in the great outdoors. PLEIN AIR is a series of site-specific art school excursions to unique Gold Coast locations. Activities are self guided and can include drawing, painting, taking photographs,…

The Frank Hurley Photography Awards is an international competition to find the best in new photography honouring the spirit and adventurous career of this iconic Australian photographer. It is presented by the Mawson’s Huts Foundation, a not for profit charity with support from our generous sponsors and partners. ENTER FOR…