Join current Artist-in-Residence, Michelle Eskola for a hands-on workshop where she will guide you through her approach to collage making through minimalist abstraction and a mindful engagement with materials. Michelle is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice traverses painting, textile, and installation, often incorporating repetitious iconography and labour intensive techniques. In…

Artists, designers, curators, photographers, (landscape) architects, writers, and critics are invited to apply for a residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands for 6 up to 12 months in 2019. Every applicant shares our belief that insight comes through exchange with other: insight in the meaning of things,…

Entries for the 2018 Blacktown City Art Prize are now open. Now in its 23rd year, the Blacktown City Art Prize is a highly valued art prize, with cash prizes of $20,000 and acquisitive awards. Local, regional and national artists are invited to submit entries in drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics and mixed media.…

Capture a painted impression of a landscape on 9×5. Following in the footsteps of impressionists Streeton, Roberts, Condor and McCubbin, in 2016 we launched our inaugural 9×5 Landscape Prize.  Entry in the 9×5 Prize may be paintings in any medium, including oil, acrylic or watercolour. The theme is open. Prizes: The…

As a part of the forthcoming Outer Space exhibition “Class Act” curated by Lisa Bryan-Brown, Llewellyn Millhouse has been invited to facilitate a public program in response to the topic of class. Please come participate in a free workshop involving games and activities designed to generate discussion around the concept…

Join us for a dynamic life drawing event facilitated by contemporary artist Kenji Uranishi. Kenji Uranishi is an Australian-based artist who draws from the longstanding traditions of ceramics in Japanese art and culture to inform his contemporary work with porcelain and other mediums. Cost: $15.00 per person, including drawing media and…

Open international call to visual artists, curators and art theorists/writers to apply for the 2019/2020 residency programme at AiR Tilburg in the Netherlands. SEA Foundation – AiR Tilburg – invites applicants for its 2019/2020 residency program. The residencies are designed for the 21st-century art professional – visual artists, curators and…

Enjoy a hands-on ceramics workshop led by Mieke and Charlie De Deyne, the mother and daughter duo behind Mas & Miek Ceramic House. The workshop will take inspiration from L.J. Harvey’s teaching methods and the ceramics featured in With Heart & Hand: Art Pottery in Queensland 1900-1950. You’ll hand build your…

Enjoy untutored & tutored life drawing on Saturday 15 September, 2018 at our Norman Park studio. Coffee & tea is provided with biscuits and the studio is fully air conditioned for your comfort. Starts at 2pm and finishes at 5pm. The model will be asked to pose for tutored participants within the times, but this will…

Backbone’s Open Source Residency Program is designed to support individuals, groups or collectives of young artists from any background or discipline to move their practice and careers to the next level and beyond. 2019 Open Source Residents will receive: – Three months of free space at Backbone’s venue in East…

Learn the traditional craft of Coptic bookbinding in this exclusive workshop hosted by Red Hill’s quaint little bookstore, Scrumptious Reads, where in addition to making 2 different Coptic-bound books, you’ll also be treated to a delicious lunch box (provided by Three Girls Skipping, the cute cafe next door), snacks and…

Megalo Print Studio + Gallery are pleased to announce the first Megalo International Print Prize with an impressive $18500 in prize money. FIRST PRIZE – $10,000 SECOND PRIZE – $5000 PEOPLE’S CHOICE – $1000 LERIDA ESTATE ACQUISITIVE PRIZE – $2500 Artists may enter up to 2 works. Entry fees are $40…

The Waller Art Prize, an inaugural art prize and exhibition, will be first held in October, 2018 at Trades Hall, Bendigo. Every year the BendArts Festival invites artists to submit entries for the The Waller Art Prize. The most outstanding works, as judged by the selection panel, is awarded an…

Dr Mal Eutick is an ardent fan of still life painting and in act of great vision and generosity funded the inaugural Eutick Memorial Still Life Award in 2006. EMSLA, as the prize is colloquially and fondly known, was instituted in memory of Dr Eutick’s parents Lillian and Malvin. Now…

The Young Artist Award began as an initiative of the RQAS (Brisbane Branch) in 2016 and was originally open to all Queensland residents 17 to 30. The award is designed to encourage and support young artists in the pursuit of excellence This Biennial season the RQAS is excited to announce that The Young Artist…

The Burrow West End is planning an exciting event in October in collaboration with Two Birds Brewing (Australia’s first female owned brewery) themed around empowered women and the awesomeness of ladies in general. We are looking for:-Visual and sculptural artworks to display in our gallery space.-Performance art to have roaming…

The artist residency CAT (“Community Art Team”) Cologne was founded in 2010 as a non-profit organization. Open call for international emerging artists working in the field of social practice and community engaged work to spend 1-3 months residency in Cologne on a specific project related to local communities and context. During…

VIDEOART & NEW MEDIA AUDIO-VISUAL ART OPEN CALL for MADATAC, to be organised in Madrid in Jan/Feb 2019. International call – open without restrictions to select, by means of a criteria in which will be valued particularly the experimentation, the innovation and the risk, of the creations of all those new…

YICCA is an international call for artists, open to professionals and not only from any country in the world. All kinds of contemporary artworks are allowed in the art contest: drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, graphics, mix media, video, installations and performances. The competition’s aim is to promote the enrolled artist,…

oin artists Sonja Carmichael and Shirley Macnamara at the UQ Art Museum for a circle weaving workshop. Using natural fibres, ghost nets, and reclaimed materials, you will learn new skills and create your own work of art. Working expansively in the medium of fibre, Sonja Carmichael’s basketry and woven sculptures…

The Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize was established by John McCrea in 2015 to honour Lyn’s passion for drawing as fundamental to visual arts practice. The prize is a national award held annually and is open to all practicing Australian contemporary artists. The aim of the prize is to promote…

The By Request Program Lead effectively and efficiently fills requests from a diverse range of clients/customers and coordinates a wide variety of visual arts workshops, professional development and projects into schools and creative communities in metropolitan, rural, remote and regional Queensland. An excellent communicator, you will coordinate a team of…

Work closely with designer Sharka Bosakova to learn how to design and apply your own embroidery patterns on garments. Sharka will guide you through the process of gathering your ideas and inspiration, making concept sketches and translating them into an embroidered product. You are welcome to bring your own clothing…

SKIN SOFT FLESH. The body. It is a fleshy, visceral, organic living host, a life support for experiences and emotions. This exhibition seeks to expose the embodied/physical character of experience/emotions and how it manifests the sensing body. Anchoring back to the body in it’s vulnerable, broken and exposed states. We…

The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery and Abbotsleigh are pleased to announce the Grace Cossington Smith art award has returned as a biennial award. Submissions are invited from Australian artists, aged over 18, for original work in any two dimensional media in response to the theme Making Connections. The award theme is…

In this class you will be shown many different techniques for making your own folded books (single-sheet books, pop-ups, concertina books, flag books, tunnel books, origami books, and more). The books you make in these classes are great for storing your photos and memorabilia or for recording your thoughts. You…

In this full-day workshop with SCAP finalists Monica Rohan and Dana Lawrie, participants will use flowering plants, patterns, fabrics and materials as inspiration to create paintings and drawings in a way to quietly reflect, find solace and re-imagine. Workshop attendees are encouraged to bring along flowers or materials that they…

We are excited to announce a new $50,000 scholarship to be presented to an Australian painter, male or female under 45. The Award will be given to support a young Australian painter by furthering their art education both in knowledge and artistic practice internationally or in Australia. Enter the Award…

Established in 1947, the Mosman Art Prize is Australia’s oldest and most prestigious local government art award. It was founded by the artist, architect and arts advocate, Alderman Allan Gamble, at a time when only a small handful of art prizes were in existence in Australia and the community had very little…

The Portia Geach Memorial Award is Australia’s most prestigious art prize for portraiture by women artists. The Award was established by the will of the late Florence Kate Geach in memory of her sister, Portia Geach. The non-acquisitive prize is awarded by the Trustee for the entry which is of…

Hosted by Aesthetica Magazine, the Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from accross the world. It offers both emerging and established artists the opportunity to showcase their work to a wider audience, and further their engagement with the international art world. The award attracts thousands of…

Hey friends! Wanna work with us? Here’s how! we have two ways you can come hang out with us. 1 //Application form for House Conspiracy Emerging Artist Residencies Program available now at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/k30lrlv061lqq7m/House%20Conspiracy_AIR_EOI%20%281%29.docx?dl=0 *Available to emerging artists who have not yet attended a residency at House Conspiracy The Emerging Artist Residencies…

Make yourself the perfect sketchbook or journal, created with buttery-soft leather covers, your choice of papers inside, and hand-stitched using coloured thread using a fancy criss-cross Longstitch binding technique. The books we make in this workshop are approx A5 in size, and can include an optional elastic closure and/or paper…

Join us for a discussion introducing two classic feminist texts: Linda Nochlin, ‘Why have there been no great women artists?’ (1971) Linda Nochlin, ‘Women, Art and Power’ (1988) Reading materials will be provided on booking, and beginners to art history are also very welcome. Time: 6pm Cost: Free, bookings essential Location: Griffith University Art…

Life Drawing at the Art Museum ‘Get Real’ with Nat Paton WHEN: Thursday 16 August, 6-8.30 pm WHERE: Griffith University Art Museum COST: $15.00 per person, including light refreshments With a cache of personas in her arsenal of photographic self-portraits, artist Nat Paton is pulling a couple of these larger-than-life…

The Songkhla Heritage Trust and OXLAEY cultural heritage travel magazine have developed a new artist residency programme. Artists of any discipline are invited to apply. The residencies will take place in the historic town of Songkhla in southern Thailand during late 2018 and early 2019 for between 4 and 8 weeks.…