Print by Yolande Oakley.
The Print Council of Australia has an OPEN CALL for prints to join the Overwintering Project Print Portfolio for a major exhibition at La Trobe Regional Gallery 13 March-20 June 2027.
for more info https://www.theoverwinteringproject.com/
Willoughby Emerging Art Prize entries open CLOSES 30 AUGUST
for more T&CS, the definition of emerging VISIT
CLOSES SUNDAY 2 AUGUST 2026
ENTER NOW https://lanecoveartsociety.com.au/the-lane-cove-art-award/
Hawkesbury Now 2026, EOI closes 2 August 2026
The program is organised via an EOI process open to emerging, mid-career and established artists who fit at least one of the following criteria:
more information: https://www.hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au/gallery/events-and-programs/hawkesbury-now
BigCi Environmental Awards 2026 Call for Submissions,
Deadline Sunday 2 August
$5000 prize and a 4-week residency at Bilpin between the Wollemi and Blue Mountains National Parks More https://art-prizes.com/ArtPrize/BigCi-Environmental-Awards-2026
Korean Cultural Centre Australia ( KCCAU)
open call exhibition program.
Applications close Monday 3 August 2026
More: https://au.korean-culture.org/en/1969/board/1551/read/145836
Surya Bajracharaya Margaret and Fraser Fair, 2025 charcoal 61x80cm. Winner 2025 M16 Drawing Prize
$10,000 drawing prize closes 4 October 2026
framed or mounted works are not acceptable
check T&C https://www.m16artspace.com.au/2026-drawing-prize
Can I submit a ‘painting’ to the M16 Artspace Drawing Prize? How do you define drawing?
Absolutely. The M16 Artspace Drawing Prize is open to a wide range of art forms, including both traditional drawing media and techniques, as well as innovative non-traditional works that push the boundaries of what drawing can be within contemporary art practice.
While the prize is named the ‘Drawing Prize,’ we encourage artists to interpret ‘drawing’ broadly. You can submit works that may be classified as paintings or other art forms if they align with your interpretation of drawing within contemporary art. We are interested in exploring the expansive and evolving definition of drawing.
Jenny Herbert Smith Through the quarries with a hop, skip and a jump 2024, steel. Finalist 2025
The 2026 judges are Michelle Cawthorn, Dean Cross, Terence Maloon
exhibition Saturday 21 November -13 December 2026
Murray and Burgess PASSION (detail Grace Crowley and Sandy Edwards) 2026 charcoal, ink, conte 150x1600cm
PASSION is a 16m mural of 27 new charcoal portraits extending the project celebrating Australian elder women artists to 60 portraits. Amongst them are printmakers Bettina McMahon (1930 – 2024), Bea Maddock (1934-2016), Ethel Spowers (1890 – 1947), Margaret Woodward (1938-)Nyapanya Yunupinju (1945 – 2021). Murray and Burgess draw back and forth in their collaborative project.
group exhibition UNRuly
Ro Murray, Mandy Burgess, Catherine Anselmi, David Helmers
M16 Artspace 30 July -23 August 2026
21 Blaxland Cres Griffith, Canberra
Opening is 6-8pm Thursday 30 July
Ro is in attendance the first weekend.
Murray and Burgess “PASSION” (detail Margaret Woodward, Judith Wright, Nyapanya Yunupinju ) 2026charcoal, ink, conte 150x1600cm
2025 Winner Burnie Print Prize -Lois Waters Pleat 4 Etching ink on Kozo paper on board, 475x340x22mm
Artists from across the country are invited to submit work for this nationally significant acquisitive prize, which continues to champion excellence, innovation and technical skill in contemporary print practice. With a long history of attracting hundreds of entries each year, the Burnie Print Prize offers a highly regarded platform for both emerging and established artists to present their work to a broad audience.
Open to submissions across all printmaking techniques, from traditional processes such as etching, lithography and relief printing, to digital and expanded practices that push the boundaries of the medium.
An Acquistive Prize
Entries close 5pm 30 October 2026
Exhibition runs 20 March until 9 May 2027 Burnie Arts Tasmania
https://www.burniearts.net/Exhibitions/2027-Exhibits/Print-Prize-Entry-Form
Sydney Printmakers Anthea Boesenberg, Jacqui Driver & Gary Shinfield join Australian and NZ Printmakers in
AGGREGATE 9 July- 1 August 2026
Artspost 120 Victoria St Hamilton NZ
Anthea Boesenberg Orange 2026 relief collagraph, wax resist, ink Unique State on Korean handmade paper, 780x610cm
Jacqui Driver Sentinel II, 2026, Lithograph
Gary Shinfield Uncertain Sanctuary I, 2026, Unique State woodcut print on Korean handmade paper 94x64cm
Mosman Art Prize is an acquisitive award for painting. Entries close 5pm 13 July
Hornsby Art Prize closes 5pm 20 August
see definition of printmaking
Halloran Contemporary Art Prize closes 30 November. An acquisitive Prize that responds to
Jervis bay Maritime Museum and Galley. Theme: Between Light and Reason
https://www.artshub.com.au/opportunity/halloran-contemporary-arts-prize-2862275
Lane Cove Art Award closes 2 August
The Banyule Award for Works on Paper is awarded biennially to an outstanding contemporary work on paper. This is a prestigious national art prize, with the winning artwork entered into the Banyule Art Collection.
In 2023, in addition to acquiring the winning artwork, we acquired 6 additional artworks from the finalists’ exhibition, continuing to make a significant investment in Australian artists and in this prize.
Each iteration of the Banyule Award for Works on Paper is directed by a theme that aligns either with a current direction in art, pressing contemporary issue or a matter of local interest at the time.
The Heidelberg School was the first significant colonial art movement in Australia. The name was first coined in 1891 by art critic Sidney Dickinson to describe the group of Australian Impressionist artists who painted en plein air in the rural outskirts of Sydney and Melbourne, and had established an outdoor painting camp in the Heidelberg and Eaglemont area.
With their iconic representation of Australia’s colonial history and heritage, these realist and highly romanticised European-style paintings have long provided us with the artists’ early impressions of the landscape and settler life.
We invite artists to enter artworks that critique, respond to, are inspired by, or otherwise explore concepts around the Heidelberg School art movement, interrogating our ideas of the Australian landscape, heritage and colonial history.
This is an exciting opportunity to have your artwork displayed alongside original Heidelberg School paintings, which are on long-term loan from the National Gallery of Australia with support from the Australian Government as part of Sharing the National Collection. #artacrossaustralia
there is no size limit
Entries close midnight 12 July
learn more
Before Lea leaves for her Masters at Goldsmiths University in London, she will be having a small exhibition
EMPHEMERAL
of her polar art at
One +2 Gallery 483 Balmain Rd, Lilfield
Opening Drinks 4-6pm Saturday 27 June
Lea has also been accepted finalist for Northern Beaches Environment Art Prize
The work consists of 40 cyanotypes, 20 from the Antarctic , 20 from the Arctic (Svalbard),
created on location using locally harvested ice.
The NSW State Library has purchased Sandi Rigby’s box of 11 etchings of Powerful Owls. Sandi said the etchings were started in 2012, for a project to fight a development that was going to knock down part of a local Blue Gum Forest, the habitat for a pair of Powerful Owls. Sandi monitored the pair over a season, and was rewarded with sighting of their chicks. Powerful Owls are listed as “vulnerable”.
The box contained the story and a drawing of the area in habituated by the owls. The Library hopes to put them in an exhibition next year for recent acquisitions.
