Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2026
The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2026, administered by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is now accepting applications from emerging Australian artists aged 20 to 30 with an…
Common Ground
Our Space Brisbane is inviting emerging and established artists to submit work for Common Ground, a three-day exhibition celebrating the studio’s fourth birthday. Open to artists working across ceramics, 2D…
Audrey Gibbs Art Prize
Entries are now open for the Audrey Gibbs Art Prize 2026, presented by the Royal Queensland Art Society (RQAS). The annual prize celebrates genre painting and drawing, honouring the legacy…
UniSQ Biennial Art Award 2026
Entries are now open for the UniSQ Biennial Art Award 2026, a national acquisitive art prize celebrating outstanding contemporary Australian art. Launched in 2024, the biennial award has quickly established…
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2026
Entries are now open for the Portia Geach Memorial Award 2026, Australia’s most prestigious portrait prize for women artists. Presented annually by the S.H. Ervin Gallery, the $30,000 non-acquisitive award…
Urunga Small Sculpture Prize
Entries are now open for the Urunga Small Sculpture Prize 2026, a national sculpture award presented by Art Space Urunga. Established in 2018, the prize celebrates original small-scale sculpture and…
Calleen Art Award 2026
Entries are now open for the Calleen Art Award 2026, one of Australia’s longest-running acquisitive painting prizes. Established in 1977, the annual award celebrates originality, creativity and excellence in contemporary…
LOOKOUT @ QUT Art Museum
QUT Art Museum is inviting applications for LOOKOUT, an exhibition program showcasing the research and creative practice of QUT students. Open to projects across visual art, design, research and interdisciplinary…
Korean Cultural Centre Australia
The Korean Cultural Centre Australia (KCCAU) is inviting applications for its 2026–27 Exhibition Program, supporting contemporary visual arts projects that foster cultural exchange between Australia and Korea. Selected exhibitions will…
Mosman Art Prize 2026
Entries are now open for the 2026 Mosman Art Prize, Australia’s premier open painting prize and one of the nation’s longest-running acquisitive art awards. Established in 1947, the Mosman Art…
Clunes Ceramic Award 2026
Entries are now open for the Clunes Ceramic Award 2026, a prestigious biennial national award celebrating excellence and innovation in contemporary ceramics. First held in 2009, the award has become…
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2026
Entries are now open for the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2026, one of the world’s leading international awards celebrating excellence in representational visual arts. Now in its ninth year, the…
Evelyn Chapman Art Award 2026
Entries are now open for the Evelyn Chapman Art Award 2026, a prestigious biennial award supporting the professional development of emerging Australian painters. Presented by the S.H. Ervin Gallery, the…
Prisma Art Prize: 20th Edition
Prisma Art Prize has opened submissions for its 20th edition, inviting painters, illustrators, printmakers and traditional 2D artists from around the world to apply. Based in Rome, the international award…
2026 Banyule Award for Works on Paper
Entries are now open for the 2026 Banyule Award for Works on Paper, a prestigious national acquisitive art prize presented by Banyule City Council. Awarded biennially, the prize celebrates outstanding…
Trades Hall Art Prize
The Victorian Trades Hall Council is inviting artists from across Australia to enter the Trades Hall Art Prize 2026, a national exhibition exploring the legacy of one of the world’s…
Sculpture in the Garden Wollongong
Applications are now open for Sculpture in the Garden Wollongong 2027, one of regional Australia’s leading outdoor sculpture exhibitions. Presented by Wollongong City Council, the biennial exhibition transforms the Wollongong…
Basil Sellers Art Prize
Entries are now open for the 2026 Basil Sellers Art Prize, a major national acquisitive art prize presented by The Bas in Moruya, NSW. Celebrating excellence in traditional 2D practice,…
Southern Ocean Art Prize
Entries are now open for the Southern Ocean Art Prize 2026, inviting artists from across Australia to submit work in any medium for this non-acquisitive national art prize. The open…
BigCi Environmental Awards 2026
Applications are now open for the BigCi Environmental Awards 2026, inviting Australian and international artists working across visual art, installation, multimedia, performance, literature, music, photography, filmmaking and curatorial practice to…
Burnie Print Prize 2027
Entries are now open for the Burnie Print Prize 2027, one of Australia’s leading national printmaking awards, celebrating excellence, innovation and technical skill in contemporary print practice. Presented by Burnie…
Bindi Digital Art Prize
Entries are now open for the Bindi Digital Art Prize 2026, a national art prize celebrating digital and moving image practice by artists of all abilities across Australia. Presented by…
Fisher's Ghost Art Award
Entries are now open for the 2026 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, one of Australia’s longest-running and most prestigious regional art awards, presented by Campbelltown Arts Centre. Now in its 64th…
Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio Residency
Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio welcomes applications for its ongoing artist residency program, offering self-funded residencies of up to three months in one of Japan’s leading public art centres. Located within…
Metropolitan Fukujusou Artist Residency
Applications are open for the Metropolitan Fukujusou Artist Residency, a Kyoto-based international residency offering artists the opportunity to live and work within a 200-year-old traditional Kyo-Machiya townhouse. Designed for artists…
Ongoing AIR
Art Center Ongoing is inviting applications for its Ongoing AIR residency program, a two-month international residency based in Kichijoji, Tokyo. Open to artists and curators from Japan and overseas, the…
Drawing Festival
The Drawing Festival returns to Queensland Art Gallery for a weekend of creativity, exploration and fun, featuring more than 50 free events across two days. Expanded in 2026 due to…
trenarren HOUSE Artist Residency
Applications are open for the 2025/2026 trenarren HOUSE Residency Season, inviting artists from all creative disciplines to immerse themselves in a unique rural residency centred on the theme Community. Located…
L’AiR Arts International Arts Research Residency
Applications are open for the L’AiR Arts International Arts Research Residency, offering artists and cultural practitioners the opportunity to live and work in the historic Atelier 11 Cité Falguière in…
Mudhouse Residency
The Mudhouse Residency invites visual artists, writers, musicians and performers to undertake a two-week creative residency on the island of Crete, Greece, surrounded by the historic mountain village of Agios…
Venuvana Artist Residency
The Venuvana Artist Residency, presented by ABARI, invites artists, architects, writers and interdisciplinary practitioners to immerse themselves in the landscapes of Nepal through nature-based creative research and making. Hosted on…
Life Drawing & Painting at Vacant Assembly
Join a welcoming weekly life drawing and painting session at Vacant Assembly, open to all skill levels and all mediums. Bring your own materials—charcoal, oils, acrylics, pencils—and settle into a…
John Leslie Art Prize 2026
Entries are now open for the John Leslie Art Prize 2026, one of Australia’s most established landscape painting awards. First presented in 2000 and named after John Leslie OBE, the…
E.SUN International Art Prize
Black Door Gallery invites painters to apply for the E.SUN International Art Prize, a global painting award established by E.SUN Bank in Taiwan, offering a total prize pool of approximately…
Redland Art Awards 2026
The Redland Art Awards is a biennial contemporary painting competition open to Australian citizens and permanent residents aged 18 and over. The award celebrates innovation and excellence in painting, with…
Paddo Sculpture Prize
The Paddington Art Prize introduces the inaugural Paddo Sculpture Prize, a national, non-acquisitive award offering $10,000 for a 3D free-standing sculpture inspired by the Australian landscape. Open to artists across…
SoFA Seminar: Oh the places you will go
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WHEN : 13th Sep, 6:00 – 9:00pm WHERE : UQ Art Museum, James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre SoFA, with the UQ Art Museum, present the first of SoFA’s Seminars titled “Oh the Placed You Will Go” It’s a casual, panel-discussion with members in the Visual Arts community to discuss…
Metro Arts – call for proposals
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14th Sep,2012
DEADLINE : 14th Sep,2012 An opportunity for performance makers is now available through Metro Arts; who are seeking artists who are brave and curious, who aren’t asking ‘What now?’ but ‘What next?’’ In a landscape that is shifting day-to-day, there is an understanding that to stay still is to be…
The A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize 2012
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WHAT : Art Prize DEADLINE: 1st Oct, 2012 The A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize is awarded to Australian artists who have demonstrated talent and achievement in traditional styles. The Art Prize is intended to encourage, support and advance classical training of emerging artists (in their early to mid-career)…
2high Festival call for media artists for Program X
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12th Sep, 5:00pm
DEADLINE : 12th Sep, 5:00pm In 2012 the Music and Exhibitions Departments will collaborate with a new initiative called Program X. Program X showcases the cross-collaboration between music and visual art forms by providing visual accompaniments to live performances by bands at this year’s 2high Festival. Program X is seeking…
Open Call for Submissions: Sculpture at Scenic World 2013
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WHAT : Call Out DEADLINE : 1st Oct, 2012 Following the success of the inaugural Sculpture at Scenic World, Australia’s only rainforest exhibition returns for 2013.Between 23 April, and 19 May, 2013 this outdoor exhibition will provide local, national and international artists an exciting opportunity to exhibit their works within…
TALES WITHIN HISTORICAL SPACES
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WHEN : 8 Sep, 1:00 – 2:00pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Join Louise Denoon (Executive Manager, Queensland Memory, State Library of Queensland) in conversation with Polish-born artist, Beata Batorowicz, as they discuss the re-telling of history through fairytales and storytelling in relation to Beata’s exhibition Tales within historical spaces
Panel Discussion: Polly Borland: Everything I want to be when I grow up
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WHEN : 6th Sep, 2:00 – 3:00pm WHERE : UQ Art Museum A panel discussion responding to the exhibition Polly Borland: Everything I want to be when I grow up, with curator Alison Kubler, Frances Bonner and Jay Younger. Polly Borland’s photographic practice has straddled commercial/photographic documentary, and fine art…
Gender and Science II @ IMA
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WHEN : 6th Sep, 6:00pm WHERE : Institute of Modern Art Geneticists Vincent Harley (Prince Henry’s Institute, Monash University, Melbourne) and Peter Koopman (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane) and LGTBI community advocates Tony Briffa and Sally Goldner discuss the science and politics of sexual determination and differentiation;…
{ART} WRITE 4
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WHEN : 4th Sep, 6:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Do you want to learn how to write about art? Join industry professionals Tess Maunder (The Maximilian) and Fiona Crawford (A Girl Called Fred) as they share their knowledge and experience of the use of blogging and social…
Suncorp Bank Design Competition
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WHAT : Design Call Out DEADLINE : 23rd Sep, 2012 Suncorp Bank is giving young Australians the chance to flex their creative minds and win big with Blank to Bank, a promotion inviting young Australians to develop a bank account they would like to bank with – including the design…
2High Festival Artist Call Out
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WHAT : Call Out DEADLINE : 31st August Australia’s one-of-a-kind multi-arts Festival for young and emerging artists and cultural practitioners is on 10 November 2012 at Brisbane Powerhouse. All interested artists are asked to please fill in both the Artist Application Form and the Technical Specifications Form and send to…
open closed: Lincoln Austin, Sean Phillips and Arryn Snowball
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WHEN : 1st Sep, 2:00pm WHERE QUT Art Museum Lincoln Austin, Sean Phillips and Arryn Snowball are three Queensland artists working in different media, but with a shared sensibility. Join the artists as they discuss their parallel concerns and inspirations. RSVP essential 07 3138 5370 or artmuseum@qut.edu.au
2012 Mortimore Prize
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WHAT : Submissions Open DEADLINE : 31st August, 2012 Australia’s leading Realism art event has $52,000 in prizes and covers 7 genres. Now in its 7th year and touring to 11 venues throughout the Eastern states, the Mortimore this year will be bigger than ever. There is a pre-selection process…
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia - call for proposals artists in residence
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WHAT : Artist in Residence Program DEADLINE : 31st August, 2012 Are you an academic, an artist, a performer or a professional working in the audiovisual area? The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) invites proposals from people who wish to conduct research into the national audiovisual collection.…
The Aesthetica Art Prize
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WHAT : Call Out DEADLINE : 31st August, 2012 The Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world and is hosted by Aesthetica Magazine, an internationally recognised art and culture publication. Four shortlisted artists and four student artists will be selected for exhibition in…
Digital Associates Program
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WHAT : Call For Artists DEADLINE : Feb 1st, 2013 The Digital Associates Program provides independent artists, collectives and curators with opportunities to present quality and innovative new media and digital work. Applications to exhibit in 2013 are now open. The program provides subsidised access to a unique exhibition space…
Clayton Utz Launch Art Award
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WHAT : Drawing Prize DEADLINE : 24th August, 2012 Clayton Utz is proud to support the Arts through the Clayton Utz LAUNCH Art Award. The Award offers a $10,000 winner’s prize and exhibition space for the finalists and is awarded to Queensland-based artists or artists with a strong connection to…
Ideas Need Lovin' Too
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WHEN : 23rd Sep, 4:00 – 8:00pm WHERE : D Block, QUT Gardens Point Campus Ever thought your idea or design would make a good business ? The QUT Innovation Space (QIS) teams up with The Dub, to bring together an inspiring event for anyone who’s ever considered turning an…
West Space : Call for exhibition proposals
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WHAT : Call Out DEADLINE : 24th August, 2012 Applications are now being accepted for the second half of 2013. West Space invites artists / collectives / curators to submit proposals to exhibit between June and December 2013. For more information please visit the website
Forum: How to set up and run an Artist Run Initiative
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WHEN : 23rd Aug, 1:00 – 4:00pm WHERE : Flying Arts: Judith Wright Centre, 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley COST : $15/$20 Featuring guest speakers and case studies from three successful ARIs: • Mitchell Donaldson – Addition Gallery • Jenna Baldock – Inhouse ARI • Sarah Werkmeister – The Wandering…
The pitch: Pitching to magazines and working with editors
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WHEN : 21st Aug, 6:00pm – 7:00pm WHERE : QUT Art Museum Do you want to learn how to write about art? Join industry professionals Louise Martin-Chew (mc/k art consulting) and Sarah Follent (Eyeline Magazine) as they reveal their methodologies of pitching an idea or article to publishers and working…
Call out for Photographers
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WHAT : Call Out DEADLINE : 22nd August, 2012 Gallery on the Lane is a unique space opening in the heart of Southport on the Gold Coast, dedicated to showcasing a contemporary range of photography from around Australia. This non-commercial space provides a platform for exciting new talent in the…
Fashion Talks | Black Milk
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WHEN : 21st Aug, 6:00 – 7:00pm WHERE : The Glasshouse, QUT Kelvin Grove Black Milk is one of Australia’s most innovative fashion labels and is creating waves internationally. The Brisbane-based business has developed a huge cult following, building the brand from the bottom up using word-of-mouth and social media.…
DAVID HENDERSON : VENICE IN OILS
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WHEN : 18th Aug, 2:00pm WHERE : Art Shed Brisbane David Henderson will be sketching Venice in oils : a free artist demonstration. David is a London trained multi award winning artist. His subject matter includes portraiture, the figure and landscape, much of which is painted on regular working visits…
arc Yinnar Biennial Drawing Prize 2012
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WHAT : Call For Submissions DEADLINE : 17th August, 2012 Call for Entries by Australian artists for our 4th Biennial Drawing Prize. First Prize $2,000, 2 x $500, 2 x $300. Exhibition Dates 19 October – 24 November. For more information please visit website
Studio Space Available
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WHAT : Studio Space Tonic, an architecture and design studio are looking to rent out their downstairs studio space located at 7 Prospect St, Fortitude Valley. Tenancy 1 = $15000 + GST per year (all bills included) Tenancy 2 = $25000 + GST per year (all bills included) Both Tenancies…
Volunteer at ‘Art With Altitude’
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WHEN : 24th Aug – 2nd Sep WHERE : Airport Village, Brisbane Airport Volunteer positions available at an upcoming show, ‘Airport Village – Art With Altitude’. If you’re interested, please email your details to freefallflow@yahoo.com.au
Beginner classes in jewellery making
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WHAT : Open Workshop WHEN : 13th – 14th Aug Whether you’re an aspiring jewellery designer or you just want to learn a few tricks of the trade, Fio’s Introductory Jewellery Making course will have something for you. Fio jewellery designer Matt Dwyer has designed this hands-on eight week course…
un Magazine - Call for submissions
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WHAT : Call For Artists DEADLINE : 13th August, 2012 un Magazine volume 6 issue 2 : White Collars, Chips and a Pirates Parrot or, Art Work Mamma Yeah Nah. For submission guidelines and application form please visit: unmagazine.org All submissions and editorial enquiries should be emailed to Lisa Radford…
Programs at The Edge
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August Calendar at The Edge Grow Your Own Clothes Producers Club Design a Galaxy Intro to Video Editing Spoken Science Intro to Java Programming Design a Life Form Writing for the Web Intro to Logic Mad Scientist Tea Party Intro to WordPress Hack the Evening DIY Radio Telescopes Intro to…
BARI: SHOPFRONT AT JWC - CALL FOR PROPOSALS
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WHAT : Artist Call Out DEADLINE : 31st August Inhouse ARI is calling for proposals for work to be exhibited in the Shopfront space of the Judith Wright Centre as part of the BARI Festival 2012. We are seeking works that have interactive and/or collaborative elements, which seek to engage…
TEXTA : A book club for people who love to read art
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WHEN : 6th Aug, 10.30am WHERE : The Day Nursery, Old Government House Held in conjunction with the exhibition, Roy Lichtenstein: Pop remix, this month we tackle Metro by Alasdair Duncan. Liam Kelly is the very model of the modern male – boys want to be him, girls want to…
Intercultural curatorship and community engagement
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WHEN : 4th Aug, 10:00am – 2:00pm WHERE : UQ Art Museum In association with the Desert Country exhibition, please join our seminar exploring contemporary approaches to working with Indigenous communities and collections in South Australia and Queensland, and hear about the community engagement initiatives Glasgow museums have successfully implemented…
Then and Now panel discussion
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WHEN : 5:00 – 6:00pm WHERE :QUT Creative Industries Precinct In conjunction with the exhibition Parallel Universes, QUT Creative Industries Precinct will host Then and Now, a panel discussion investigating how historical video art can help us understand and contextualise contemporary practices in moving image. The panel, chaired by Grant…
The 2013 Asialink Arts Residency
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WHAT : Call For Applications DEADLINE : 3rd September, 2012 Each year the Asialink Arts Residency Program sends approximately 30 Australian writers, performers, artists and arts managers to undertake residencies in Asia. Since its inception in 1991 the program has sent more than 680 people to host organisations in over…
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award
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WHAT : Call For Artists DEADLINE : 3rd August, 2012 The JADA is a premier biennial arts event. In 2010 there were over 420 entries in the Award from which 46 works were selected for the exhibition. Selection is by a panel of artists and gallery professionals. The Judge selects…



































