PCA PRINT BASH 2025 at Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios

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Support the Print Council of Australia and help champion the future of printmakers!

Join us at our special fundraising event, featuring a silent print auction with standout works from the PCA Collectionas well as prints generously donated by local artists.

Every bid directly supports the PCA’s ongoing work to nurture, promote, and advocate for artists and the vibrant future of printmaking in Australia.

Be part of the community that keeps artists creating, exhibiting, and thriving.

See you at the PRINT BASH 2025!

Where: Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios 
164 Longueville Road, Lane Cove, NSW 2066

When: 2 – 5pm Sunday 30th November

RSVP Now

A special art demonstration presented by Master Printmaker Andrew Totman will take place during the Silent Auction.

Finalists Announced for Wama National Award for Environmental Art

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NATHALIE GAUTIER- HARTOG Hawkesbury River 2025, letter press on Rizzo 30x42cm

Wama Art Prize is a new acquisitive prize for works on paper about the environment,

to which Sydney Printmakers Nathalie Gautier-Hartog and Ro Murray have been selected finalists

RO MURRAY Against the Tide I,II,III 2025 lino print on pianola rolls 410cm long

Exhibition 28 Nov 2025-9 March 2026

Wama’s National Centre for the Environment is situated in the Grampians, Frid-Mon 10-5

at 4000 Ararat-Halls Gap Rd, Halls Gap Victoria 3381

Wollongong Art Prize Finalists Announced

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Congratulations to Sydney Printmaker Nathalie Gautier-Hartog who has been selected finalist to this Acquisitive Prize

See the list of finalists for the Wollongong Art Prize 2025.

NATHALIE GAUTIER-HARTOG Trying to Mend the Landscape 4 2025, gouache drawing on autochrome 50x100cm

Exhibition 6 December 2025 – 1 March 2026

Open Tues – Fri 10am – 5pm, weekends 12 – 4pm, closed Mondays & public holidays

Wollongong Art Gallery 46 Burelli Street, Wollongong NSW Australia


2025 KAAF Art Prize Finalists Announced

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MARTA ROMER Hilly 2025, archival print 35x5cm

The Korean-Australian Arts Foundation has announced finalists including

Sydney Printmakers Marta Romer and Ro Murray

Exhibition: 21st November 2025 – 16th January 2026

Korean Cultural Centre Gallery 255 Elizabeth St, Sydney NSW 2000 Weekdays 10am – 6pm

Ravenswood Womens Art Prize is Open

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Entries for Ravenswood Australian Womens Art Prize is now open

Key dates

Entries close: 11 February 2026

Finalists announced: 1 April 2026

Exhibition of Finalists: 16 to 31 May 2026

There are three prize categories:

the Professional Artist Prize of $35,000 (acquisitive)

the Emerging Artist Prize of $7,500 (supported by The Reed Family Foundation)

the Indigenous Emerging Artist Prize of $7,500 (supported by the Guardian and Scarborough Foundation)

People’s Choice Award of $2,000 (supported by Edwina Palmer) plus a $500 Derivan art pack

six Highly Commended Awards (two for each category) of $1,000 each (supported by Community Bank Lindfield) will also be awarded

Terms and Conditions

https://www.ravenswoodartprize.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/03/Ravenswood-Australian-Womens-Art-Prize-2025-TCs_.pdf

Entries Open for the 69th Blake Prize

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The Blake Prize is a prestigious national award celebrating contemporary art that fearlessly explores spirituality, faith and the big questions of human existence.
 
Together with traditional mediums such as painting and sculpture, the Blake Prize also embraces new and experimental forms of video, sound, installation, photography and digital media to explore complex ideas.
 
Liverpool Powerhouse (formerly Casula Powerhouse) has been home to the Blake Prize since 2016. We are ideally positioned within a community of people from over 150 birthplaces, speaking more than 140 languages, and representing an equally diverse range of faith backgrounds.



Entries close Monday 17 November 2025, 12pm. 

Call for Entries to Grace Cossington Smith Award

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Entries close: Tuesday 14 April 2026

Prizes and opportunities:

The Abbotsleigh Grace Cossington Smith award (acquisitive) $25,000

The Abbotsleigh Grace Cossington Smith award to an early career artist (non acquisitive) $5,000

The Abbotsleigh Grace Cossington Smith award to a local artist from the Hornsby and Ku-ring-gai area (non acquisitive) $5,000and

A finalist will be selected for a 3:33 Art Projects* collaboration.

Exhibition Saturday 18 July to Saturday 15 August 2026

CONDITIONS https://www.abbotsleigh.nsw.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/The-Abbotsleigh-GCS-art-award-2026-conditions-of-entry.pdf

ENTER HERE https://abbapi-gcsforms-appsvc01.azurewebsites.net/artaward/index.html

Proofs and Processes:The Kenneth E Tyler Collection, NGA Canberra

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Proofs and Processes exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia Canberra, features works on paper by six icons of Abstraction and Pop art. Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Liechtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, James Rosenquist and Frank Stella worked with the Tyler Graphics print workshop from 1986-2001 at the mount Kisco premises in New York State.

HELEN FRANKENTHALER Matrices for Madam Butterfly 2000, woodblocks with ink. Frankenthaler produced a preliminary painting on a wood panel. Yasuyuki Shibata (born 1968 Japan, USA since 1991)traced its mark and divided them into separate printing layers. He then carved 46 woodblocks using a variety of woods. Each woodblock was hand-printed with coloured pigment, and repeated 58 times for each print.

Megalo Artist Print Residence 2026

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Beatrice Buckland-Willis during 2022 Artist in Residency. Photo by Studio Pew Pew for arts ACT.

Megalo’s artist-in-residence program is the only printmaking residency of its kind in Australia. Through an annual callout, this program gives artists a unique opportunity to access Megalo Print Studio – Australia’s largest printmaking studio – to experiment with ideas and make new work.

The Artist in Residence program gives time and space for artists to work in the Megalo studio environment, free from any specified outcomes.

Megalo Print Studio Kamberri (Canberra)

Applications for 2026 close 31st October 2025 at midnight.

About the Residency Program

Megalo’s residency program is a supported opportunity open to artists at all stages of their careers. We aim to support the making of new work that meets Megalo’s objectives of excellence and innovation in printmaking.

The selected artists will receive an artist stipend, materials allowance, and full access to Megalo’s comprehensive professional printmaking facilities.

Artists from outside the Kamberri (Canberra) region will also receive shared accommodation at Cargill’s Cottage.

FIND OUT MORE ON THIS LINK https://www.megalo.org/artist-in-residence-apply