Open to artists across Australia working in any medium. Mandorla is a contemporary fine art award and Australia’s most significant thematic Christian art prize.
2024 Theme: Refocus: Let all that you do be done in love (1 Cor. 16:14)
Entries close 13 March 2024
Finalists exhibited at Holmes à Court Gallery in West Perth
Exhibition opens 24 May
The New Norcia Artist Residency Prize is a major new award category: this is a unique opportunity for an artist to live and create artwork in Australia’s only monastic town. In partnership with the New Norcia Benedictine Monastery, this one-month residency provides a studio, accommodation, meals and a $10,000 artist fee.
2024 Judges:
- Hannah Mathews – Director of Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA
- Richard Lewer – Artist, Vic
- Dr Raewynne Whiteley – Theologian, WA
Mandorla Art Award is proudly sponsored by St John of God Health Care.
Image: CLAIRE BEAUSEIN (WA) Chalice, wild silkworm cocoons stitched together with silk thread, museum insect pins, on cotton rag paper. (Past Winner)
