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…
We Are Here
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WHEN : 1 – 4 September 2011 WHERE : Sydney We Are Here (WAH) is the first International Symposium for Artist Run Initiatives. NAVA, the National Association for the Visual Arts, in partnership with Firstdraft, is holding the symposium in Sydney in early September. WAH has a schedule of events…
Fresher Cunts Call Out
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WHEN : Proposals due 31 August 2011 Fresher 2011 is Oct 15 2011 WHERE : Inbetweenspaces Ari inbetweenspaces’ annual showcase will feature a range of emerging Queensland artists who have not shown in Fresher before. Eligible artists are invited to submit proposals. Send proposals to PO Box 16121 Brisbane QLD…
Developing Your Brand: Selling your brand to a funding body.
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WHEN : 13th August, 10am – 4:30pm WHERE : The Paddington Substation, 150 Enoggera Terrace, Paddington QLD Learn how to clearly articulate your business to funding bodies and develop exciting grant submissions that clearly spring naturally from your long-term career plans. Presented in conjunction with Artworkers Alliance, Developing Your Brand…
Giving Voice Through Social Documentary Photography Forum
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WHEN : 27 August ·1:00 – 4:00 WHERE : Central Lecture Theatre,Queensland College of Art.Griffith University, Southbank Campus. Speakers: Angela Blakely and David Lloyd, Social Documentary Photographers.Shahidul Alam, Social Documentary PhotographerTracey Foley, Amnesty International, Panel Facilitator: Professor Pradip Thomas, University of Queensland Museum of Brisbane is proud to present the…
Indigenous Ceramic Art Award
Deadline:
26/08/2011 12:00:00 AM
DEADLINE : 26/08/2011 12:00:00 AM WHERE : Shepparton Art Gallery, Eastbank Centre, 70-90 Welsford StWelsford St, Shepparton VIC 3632 The Indigenous Ceramic Art Award was developed by Shepparton Art Gallery to support Indigenous ceramic artists and acknowledge the special industry of ceramic art practise. The awards encourage and stimulate excellence…
SafARI 2012: National Call for Artist Submissions
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WHEN : 26 August, 2011 WHERE: safARI SafARI is calling for submissions from emerging and unrepresented artists working in diverse media across Australia to be considered for SafARI 2012. Solo artists and/or groups of one or more artists will be considered. SafARI is the unofficial fringe exhibition to the Biennale…
The Daphne Mayo Lecture 2011
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WHEN : 24 August · 18:00 – 21:00 WHERE : The University of Queensland Art Museum, ICTE Auditorium in the Sir Llew Edwards Building, (No 14), which is located diagonally across from the UQ Art Museum in University Drive. FREE : RSVP by Friday 19 August, Bookings essential as numbers…
Strutten : Call for submissions
Deadline:
21st August, 2011
DEADLINE : 21st August, 2011 EMAIL : info@strutten.com Strutten in partnership with Silo Beats are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for our joint exhibit on September 3rd 2011 . Silo is a Brisbane based music and arts collective, who love anything electronic. The collective comprises of 12…
Jump Mentoring
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As Australia’s largest artist mentoring program, JUMP is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, managed nationally by Youth Arts Queensland, and delivered in collaboration with state delivery partners. For more information, click through to the about section of this site.
Harvest Festival Arts
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Ideas and installations abound in The Secret Garden, our blissful world of a thousand delights; in Bootleg Avenue, our decadent neo-noir landscape complete with alt-performance tent Le Boudoir; in the main stage music arenas where everything is writ large; and in the many magical nooks and crannies in between. Visual…
So you wanna be an artist : Boxcopy
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Presented by QUT Art Museum and Artworkers Alliance. During session one, members of the highly successful Brisbane artist run initiative, Boxcopy will chart it’s history. The session will conclude with a tour of their current exhibition Grid North and discussion about their national and international collaborative projects. Session two will…
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
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DEADLINE :5th August, 2011 WHERE : Redleaf Building, Woollahra Council, 536 New South Head Road, Double Bay, Sydney Established in 2001, the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize attracts strong support from artists, collectors and critics and is the only national acquisitive prize that showcases the quality and diversity of sculptures of…
The IRIS Award
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14 July 2011, 10am (WST)
Exhibition opening: 4 August 2011 Continues: 5 – 28 August 2011 The IRIS Award is an annual international prize recognising new and outstanding portraiture in photo-based media offering over $4000 in cash and prizes.The criteria for selection focuses on portraits that are unique, original and engaging whilst maintaining excellence in…