The Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting is a unique triennial art prize that aims to celebrate excellence and innovation in the watercolour medium. This non-acquisitive prize is open to all Australian artists over the age of 18 years. Selected finalists will be exhibited in the Grey Street…

The Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery’s National Works on Paper was established in 1998 and incorporated the former Spring Festival of Drawing and the Prints Acquisitive which began in 1973. In 2020, as part of MPRG’s 50th anniversary celebrations, MPRG will hold the prestigious biennial National Works on Paper (NWOP) acquisitive exhibition. With…

The Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize is a biennial prize open to artists Australia wide and is now in its 7th year, having started as The Northern Rivers Portrait Prize. This national portrait prize was originally open to paintings and drawings but has now expanded to include portraits of any subject in any medium (please see Terms and Conditions).…

Does your work belong next to great photographers such as Martin Parr, Steve McCurry and Sarah Maple? Submit your photos for the Open Call for Fotofestival Schiedam in the Netherlands. 2020 is a year with a lot of events, a year that new history is written. The theme of the festival…

Announcing the STARVD ART 2020 Art Prize, a new Emerging Artist award launched during the time of COVID-19, designed to create a platform of recognition and support to those working to establish or continue their artistic practice in these uncertain times. The Art Prize program is open to all Emerging…

Children’s Health Queensland, through the Arts in Health Program has engaged CREATIVEMOVE to commission a public mural for their new adolescent extended treatment centre, Jacaranda Place. This project will best suit an artist under the age of 25, based within South East Queensland. The commission aims to connect with a…

Clayton Utz is proud to support the Arts through the Clayton Utz Art Award. The Award offers a $20000 winner’s prize and exhibition space for the finalists and is awarded to Queensland-based artists or artists with a strong connection to Queensland. We are looking forward to seeing the rich diversity…

Outer Space may be in-between homes soon, but that’s not going to stop us supporting our community, offering opportunities for support or presenting exciting exhibitions. We are very pleased to announce that we are calling for applications for Into the Ether, our upcoming online exhibition series, and Stay Indoors! our at-home/in-situ residency…

New Settings is an international programme dedicated to the performing arts, developed by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in France. Every year it supports the creation and diffusion of new performance works. Applications open for 2021 programme. The New Settings programme is open to emerging and more established French and international artists.…

The Sunshine Coast Art Prize is one of the most dynamic and prestigious visual arts awards in Australia. The diverse range of 40 works by established and emerging artists from across the country will be showcased in an exhibition at the Regional Gallery, Sunshine Coast from 20 August to 11 October,…

Queensland artists at any stage of their careers are invited to submit proposals to create a new work for the Institute of Modern Art’s Making Art Work commissioning initiative. Making Art Work proposes a radical reallocation of organisational resources to facilitate a large number of artist-driven projects. In the spirit of collective and…

The National Library of Australia’s Creative Arts Fellowships offer practising artists and writers the opportunity to develop an artistic concept or work that is inspired or informed by the Library’s collections. Two fellowships are available: the Creative Arts Fellowship for artists working in any medium other than writing, including music,…

The Sunny Art Prize is an international art prize hosted by Sunny Art Centre, London. This fine art competition, based in the UK, is a global platform offering art opportunities for emerging and established artists to showcase their artworks internationally. The exhibiting galleries are located in cities across the world,  including London,…

Want some tips and inspo for how to explore, process and document your day to day experiences through art? Join Rachel Burke (designer, stylist, artist and absolute sparkle queen) for this no-pressure journaling and zine workshop for teens, aged 13-18 years. Scribble, collage and sew your heart out, as Rachel…

Lab.16 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 in…

What is The Lester Prize? It is not one point-of-view, one tone nor one hue. The Lester Prize exhibits all our traits—the heroic, the despicable, the humble, the deplorable, the principled and the fallen.  When you look upon these portraits of others, you can’t help but see yourself reflected. The…

Entries are now open for the 2020 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA) – a prize that seeks to encourage and promote innovation and excellence in Australian drawing practices. Artists residing in Australia and over the age of 16 years are invited to enter up to two drawings that will then…

The S.H. Ervin Gallery is calling for entries for Australia’s most famed portraiture prize for women, the Portia Geach Memorial Award. Applicants must be a female Australian resident who is either Australian born, British born or a naturalised Australian. The Portia Geach Memorial Award, first awarded in 1965, was established…

Celebrating printmaking and drawing, this long running prize will see some of the finest contemporary works entered from across Australia. The mission of the Swan Hill Print and Drawing Awards is to promote excellence in Australian prints and drawings, present an exhibition of contemporary works and continue to build a…

The Evelyn Chapman Art Award is a $50,000 scholarship is presented to an Australian painter, male or female under 45. The Award, given every two years, is intended to support a young Australian painter by furthering their art education both in knowledge and artistic practice internationally or in Australia. The…

Screen Queensland has announced the new SQ Completion Fund providing grants of up to $50,000 to help independent Queensland producers complete high-quality long-form productions that are at rough-cut stage, including feature films, documentaries or broadcast television series. Kylie Munnich, Screen Queensland CEO, said the fund would support productions and teams…

The Embassy of Foreign Artists, a residency programme in Geneva, is launching a series of calls for themed projects, open to all types of practice. The open call is addressed to all professional artists coming from following artistic fields: performing arts, visual arts and applied arts (fine arts, dance, theatre,…

Carrie McCarthy from Griffith University Art Museum provides insight into how art museums select works and objects for acquisition, and what considerations are given to creating an Acquisitions Policy in collecting institutions. Hear tips from an industry insider – the best way to get your work noticed by curators and…

Three $30,000 Helen Lempriere Scholarships will be awarded to emerging, mid-career and senior Australian sculptors. It is the intention that the scholarships will have a significantly beneficial impact on sculpture in Australia. The Helen Lempriere Scholarships are designed to advance individual artist careers by enabling them to travel, study and…

The competition’s aim is to promote the enrolled artists, giving them chance to join the international market of contemporary art. Thanks to this contest the artists will be able to: Internationality and networking make YICCA a huge opportunity for the artists, which can: – Euro 3000,00 money prize to the…

artisan, Queensland’s peak body for craft and design, is inviting the making community across the country, and beyond, to make, remodel, rework, embellish and decorate the simple home-made surgical mask as a creative reflection of the current global experience. Once made, there will be an opportunity for makers to submit…

Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the first Abstract online art contest for the month of May 2020. Contest is open to all artists worldwide over 18 years of age. The gallery invites all artists and photographers from around the world to submit their best nonrepresentational artworks in all kinds of…

The Hopper Prize is offering 5 individual artist grants totaling $5,000 USD awarded through an open call art competition juried by leading contemporary curators. The Hopper Prize was established in order to increase the recognition of artwork created by artists and photographers. Our aim is to advance artists’ careers by…

Brisbane-based art historian, Dr Louise R Mayhew, is now offering writing, editing and mentoring services to artists. Louise offers: One-on-one tips for writing artist statements, exhibition proposals and grant applications, etc; Proofreading and practical advice for improving exhibition catalogue essays and postgraduate theses; Face-to-face meetings for working through writing hurdles.…

The Farm Margaret River is located in the south-west of Western Australia, a region of ancient soils and flora, bounded by the Indian Ocean. The Margaret River region is an international destination for those interested in the arts, wine growing, surfing and its natural beauty. In the age of the Anthropocene, our…

This art competition is open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. Entrants may submit paintings, drawings and 2D artworks up to 60cm in any direction. The judging criteria is based on three equally evaluated criteria of creativity, originality and skill. $20 000 will be awarded to the winner. Prizes The…

With an annual prize pool worth $15,000, the Waverley Art Prize is open to painting, drawing print & mixed media. Up to 60 finalists will be selected and exhibited in the Finalists’ Exhibition.   Prizes: Prizes include; Waverley Art Prize: $10,000 acquisitive The Mayors Prize: $2,000 acquisitive People’s Choice Prize:…

The American-Australian Arts Fund (AAAF) provides support of up to US $20,000 to emerging Native American, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, Indigenous Australian and Torres Strait Islander artists to study or undertake artistic development in each other’s countries respectively. The American Australian Association awards more than 15 arts scholarships and grants per year…

In November 2020, Kyber Theatre organises in Cagliari (Italy) the 7th Edition of the International Theatre, Art and New Technologies Festival called “The Wonders of Possible”. LMDP Festival is the first of this kind in the whole Italy. Its aim is to promote the interrelation between artistic and technological languages.…

Il Varco is glad to inaugurate the second year of Prisma Art Prize, a quarterly award for artists from all around the world that will become a collective exhibition for the first time in september 2020 in Rome. Organized with the goal of creating a space for visual artists to…

Expressions of interest are now invited for the inaugural Prize from artists working across a range of mediums, including, and not limited to, painting, mixed media, works on paper, digital, video, photography, sculpture, and textiles. Botanical art in Australia has undergone somewhat of a renaissance in the last 10 years; however, unlike…