The Meridian Award is an independent international award offering a $1,000 unrestricted cash prize to one contemporary artist working in any medium. Founded in New York City, the award supports independent and self-directed practices, recognising artists whose work demonstrates originality, clarity, and a distinct voice within the contemporary art landscape. Open to artists worldwide aged […]
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Metro Arts invites applications for its 2026 Visual Artists in Residence Program, offering artists dedicated time and space to develop their practice within the MAVA Warehouse. Designed as a space for experimentation and exchange, the residency supports artists through studio access, curatorial guidance, and opportunities for dialogue with peers and the wider arts community. The
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Innovate Grant awards two USD $1,800 grants each quarter—one to a Visual Artist and one to a Photographer. In addition, twelve Honorable Mentions (six in art and six in photography) are selected each cycle and featured on the Innovate Grant website, joining a growing international community of artists. The grant is open to visual artists
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The Lock-Up is seeking a Gallery & Curatorial Assistant to support the day-to-day operations of the gallery and assist with the delivery of exhibitions, programs, and artist residencies. Housed in Newcastle’s original 1861 lock-up on Awabakal and Worimi Country, The Lock-Up is a contemporary arts organisation supporting multidisciplinary, experimental, and artist-led practice. The role works
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Somerset Regional Council is seeking Expressions of Interest from Somerset and South East Queensland artists to create a large-scale public artwork on a redundant concrete water tank at Twin Bridges Reserve, Fernvale. The commission forms part of the Somerset Fish Habitat Revitalisation Project, an initiative of Resilient Rivers South East Queensland. The mural will celebrate
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Media artists worldwide are invited to submit work for the 39th European Media Art Festival (EMAF) in Osnabrück, Germany. The festival features film, media, installations, performances, hybrid and experimental works. Key Info Submission Deadline: 22 December 2025 Accepted categories: • Film (experimental shorts & features) • Installation (interactive, spatial, sculptural, etc.) • Expanded (performances, live events, workshops) Entry
John Honeywill (b. 1952, Brisbane) is a still life painter living and working in Brisbane. An accomplished art educator for much of his professional life, Honeywill now focusses solely on his painting practice. His meticulous and inquisitive works continue the tradition of still life painting with the artist describing – “I paint the quiet visual conversations
Kyber Theatre is accepting applications for the 12th edition of “The Wonders of Possible,” Italy’s premier International Festival of Art, Theatre and New Technologies taking place in Cagliari between October and November 2025. This prestigious festival, recipient of the “EFFE Label 2024-2025” from the European Festival Association, focuses on the interrelation between artistic and technological
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Moreton Bay resident Joe Furlonger is one of Australia’s most respected landscape painters. His gestural method invokes the vibrance of Kabi Kabi and Quandamooka Country. Roadside sketching sessions flanked by cows are often where Furlonger’s work takes shape. Immerse yourself in the local environment for a morning of guided sketching and natural observation. We’ll start
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Arabella Walker is from the maternal line of Wulli Wulli the Auburn Hawkwood people and an emerging female contemporary Aboriginal artist; her practice conveys significant topics of First Nations histories with a focus on the challenge of being an Aboriginal woman living in the Colony. Walker deals with this challenge by weaving Indigenous ways of
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Fireworks Gallery is excited to announce a new exhibition featuring the diverse works of talented artists Cheolyu Kim, Daryl Hewson, Dean Rusling, Fiona Omeenyo, Michael Eather, Pat Hoffie AM, Phillip Piperides, Rod Moss, and Stephen Hart. This showcase will highlight their unique perspectives and creative expressions, inviting visitors to engage with a rich tapestry of
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‘Fountain’ is a new series of works that further my exploration of colour and looping tubular forms across metal surfaces. These oscillating, orbiting trajectories have a relationship to the pathways of celestial bodies, tracing out gravitationally dictated pathways across the universe. The reduction of palette within individual works explores gentler and subtler shifts in light
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Entries are now open for the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize. This signature event continues a long tradition of acquisitive award exhibitions presented by the Gallery, through which the permanent collection has grown substantially. The first painting prize—the Geelong Centenary Art Competition—was held in 1938, and in the more than 80 years since, the Gallery has awarded acquisitive
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Derwent, the internationally renowned fine art brand, are proud to announce that the seventh instalment of the Derwent Art Prize is now open for entries! Created in 2012 by Derwent, the Derwent Art Prize celebrates and rewards excellence in contemporary pencil art, inviting artists to submit the very best in 2D and 3D artworks created in any pencil,
Dr. Ryan Presley was born in 1987 in Alice Springs, and currently lives and works in Brisbane. His father’s family is Marri Ngarr and originate from the Moyle River region in the Northern Territory. His mother’s family were Scandinavian immigrants to Australia. Presley’s practice wrestles with themes of power and dominion—in particular, how religion and
Mia Boe is a painter from Brisbane with Butchulla and Burmese ancestry. The inheritance and disinheritance of both cultures is the focus of her practice. Boe’s paintings respond, sometimes obliquely, to historical and contemporary acts of violence perpetrated on the people and lands of Burma and Australia. Boe received a Bachelor of Art, majoring in
Robert Brownhall (b.1968, Brisbane) is a realist painter, inspired by his local environment of South-East Queensland. Over nearly thirty years of painting, Brownhall has developed a unique style characterised by a strong connection to place with his moody nocturnes, broad sweeping panoramas and gritty vignettes of urban life. Brownhall’s realism is not slick. The humanity
Bridie Gillman is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is informed by ideas of place, and the ways in which experiences and memories shape our perspective of a site. Living and working in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia, she completed her Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours at the Queensland College of Art in 2013. Since graduating she has exhibited in solo
Sam Cranstoun’s multidisciplinary practice combines various forms of research with a wide array of media to create work that investigates different systems of representation. His work regularly focuses on historical figures and events as a way of exploring how history is shaped, how it functions and how we as spectators rely on different visual systems
Born 1982, Moranbah, Queensland. Lives and works Brisbane, Queensland. Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples. D Harding identifies as a descendant of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples of central Queensland and their work is informed by this heritage, in terms of both an oral history tradition and the artistic techniques they have inherited. Stencilling, for
The hopeful/hopeless. Investigating expanded notions of self-portraiture, using experimental and naïve approaches to materials in order to negotiate a relationship between permanence and impermanence. Repetitive, transformative and often redundant processes used in the creation of each work function as a way to concentrate on, or examine how one might hold the unremarkable, or insignificant, as
Robert Andrew is a descendant of the Yawuru people, whose Country is the lands and waters of the Broome area in the Kimberley Region, Western Australia. Andrew’s work investigates the personal and family histories that have been denied or forgotten. His work speaks to the past yet articulates a contemporary relationship to his Country—using technology
Kailum Graves is an artist and binary archivist critically obsessed with the artifactual digital object. Through artworks, writing, and curatorial projects he investigates the hidden and invisible structures of power. He does this by contemplating themes as diverse as economic inequality, the algorithmic nature of digital photography, the bombardment of media imagery, the politics of
Olivia Lacey employs processes of transcription and translation to explore the ambiguities, slippages or humour that can arise in interpersonal interactions. Her works combine referents appropriated from art historical texts, pop music lyrics and everyday conversations in order to examine romantic dialogue as an intersubjective space of exchange. These explorations are primarily realised as multi-
Caroline Austin is an artist whose socially engaged practice spans a diverse range of media including sculpture, performance, sound and large-scale installations. Through the projects and programs Austin has initiated globally, she has illustrated that art can be used as a tool for generating social engagement, civic pride, and economic development. Austin is also the
VERGE Collective is an all-female art collective formed by six photography and new media artists currently living and working in Brisbane and surrounds. The collective aims to initiate and implement artistic and professional development opportunities tailored to support its female members who manage work and family commitments as they seek to consolidate their artistic practises.
Scott lives and paints in Stokers Siding, a small village in the Tweed Valley. He worked as a high school art teacher in Queensland for 10 years then moved to Sydney to pursue his art career full time. After 40 solo exhibitions in Australia and overseas Scott settled in Northern NSW where he built a
Liam is a Brisbane-based artist regularly exhibiting locally. His work may be understood as an exploration of self-awareness through mediums painting and drawing. As such, instead of thinking only what the painting is ‘about,’ it moves to the idea of what the painting ‘does’ as a means for self-discovery and transformation. His visual formalities and
Jay Younger is a Brisbane based artist, curator and academic with over 30 years of practice. Generally Younger’s artworks take form as photomedia, public art and installation with the purpose of interrogating the position and status of women within physical space, spatial politics, and the invisible socialised barriers that contain and deny access to other
Brisbane-based artist Callum McGrath utilises screen based media to ‘disidentify’ binary representations of queer male sexuality. His practice disrupts queer representations of sexuality by exploring the in-between space in queer male identity. McGrath looks to queer historical and family narratives to explore the complex relationship between his identity and queer cultural/ lineal inheritances. His practise
Grant Stevens is an Australian artist based in Sydney. Working predominantly with video, as well as photography, sculpture and installation, his art practice explores how the verbal and non-verbal languages of popular screen culture interface with contemporary subjectivity. He has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally. held numerous solo exhibitions in Australia, as well as in
Athene Currie’s most recent video work RED (2017) screened at The Queensland College of Art’s (QCA) White Studio, February 2018. Currie’s move toward video installation developed in her final years as honours student in photography at QCA (2000). Currently a PhD candidate at Griffith University, Currie has developed a broad portfolio of exceptional still and
Through solo and collaborative works, Jordan Azcune’s practice develops from the act of playing. This artistic practice appropriates quotidian materials in order to communicate a joking and formal intersection between contemporary art and architecture. Azcune utilises colour, kinetics, and improvisation in a playful yet technically sophisticated manner to respond critically yet humorously to failed 20th
Janni Cox is a Brisbane based artist who recently completed Honours in Fine Art at Queensland University of Technology in 2017. As both an artist and skateboarder, he explores the creative potential of skateboarding. Rather than dealing with skateboarding as a subject or subculture in contemporary art, he explores his personal creative processes involved in
Kinly Grey is a Brisbane-based artist who engages with embodiment and expanded poetics in exploration of art’s affect. Their practice includes instructional, performance, installation, and experience-based works that mostly occur outdoors. Placing viewer experience at their centre, Kinly’s works require participation or enactment for their realisation. Intuition, understandings of queerness as a state of possibilities,
Renata Buziak is a photo-media artist, a sessional academic, and workshops facilitator. Her interdisciplinary art practice includes intercultural and art-science research, and cross disciplinary collaborations. For over a decade Renata has been developing an experimental process of images making, the biochrome, based on fusion of organic and photographic materials subject to decomposition. Her recent PhD research focused