Wollongong Art Prize (Acquisitive) is a national prize, open to all Australian artists. Now reimagined for a new generation, the competition invites submissions from artists working across all mediums.
The Wollongong Art Prize is a biennial art competition. Entries close Sunday 14 September.
Image Detail: Mnemosyne I by Petrina Hicks, 2024 Winner
The Korean -Australian Arts Foundation presents
2025 KAAF Art Prize
visit kaaf.org.au to enter
Entries close Monday 13 October
Exhibition 21 Nov 2025- 16 Jan 2026
Venue Korean Cultural Centre Sydney
Submissions close 31st July
Submissions close 25 July
Size restriction single entry size 40x40cm or equivalent
Double entry 80x40cm or equivalent
Start by reading the important information below then click on one of these links to fill out a friendly form. (If you are submitting one larger piece you still use the submission form for one work.)
8-10 August
Deliver work/s to Tiliqua Tiliqua, 257 Enmore Rd, Enmore NSW
14 August
Show opens
16 August
Celebratory drinks 4-6pm
1 September
Show closes
1/2 September
Collect any unsold work from Tiliqua Tiliqua
Lane Cove Art Society invites all Australian artists to enter the prestigious 2025 Lane Cove Art Award. The acquisitive 1st prize is $15,000 (sponsored by Lane Cove Council).
ENTER via: https://lanecoveartsociety.com.au/the-lane-cove-art-award/
2025 marks the first year of the MAC yapang Art Prize! This national art prize has a total prize pool of $40,000.
It is open to artists from all disciplines across Australia, with artworks in any medium.
The winning artist of the acquisitive prize will be awarded $30,000, and their
The MAC yapang Art Prize is a new, open acquisitive art prize offered by the Museum of Art and Culture, yapang (MAC yapang) in Lake Macquarie, NSW. It offers a $30,000 cash prize for the winning artwork, which will also be acquired for the museum’s permanent collection.
It is open to artists from all disciplines across Australia, with artworks in any medium.
2 June 2025 – Entries open online
30 July 2025 – Entries close at 3pm
18 August 2025 – Finalists announced
11 October 2025 – Delivery of Finalist artwork to MAC yapang (2A First Street, Booragul, NSW)
17 October 2025 – Exhibition opening and award announcement at Museum of Art and Culture, yapang from 6pm
18 October – 7 December 2025 – MAC yapang Art Prize exhibition on view
Read the MAC yapang Art Prize 2025 terms and conditions
We’d like to remind you about the upcoming deadline for submitting 1 or 2 books for the Crescendo25 Artist Book Awards, $5,000 for the winning entry and $1,000 for a work made by an artist living in the Illawarra area.
Clifton School of Arts (CSA) presents Crescendo 2025 Artist Book Award, the curatorial
initiative of four recognised book artists and CSA members, Liz Jeneid, Judy Bourke,
Kathryn Orton and Lucia Parrella. This new art award will bring together works by leading
and emerging artist book makers from across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. It will
build on the success of Prelude Artists’ Books Now, an exhibition which showcased 52
unique artists books at Clifton in November 2023. Enthusiastically received by over 370
people, Prelude Artists’ Books Now enjoyed national media coverage, introducing new
audiences to the contemporary art form of artist’s books, and generating interest in a
two-day workshop facilitated by the curators in June 2024. Crescendo 2025 Artist Book
Award is the culmination of a three-year journey, celebrating the limitless possibility of books.
Crescendo 2025 Timeline
April 1 Applications open email entries to crescendobooks2025@gmail.com
August 1 Applications close
August 14 Selected artists notified
October 1 Selected work(s) delivered before this date to: Crescendo 2025,
C/- Judy Bourke, 10 Mount Gilead Road, Thirroul, 2515, NSW, Australia
November 14 Exhibition opens
November 30 Exhibition closes
December 2 Unsold work posted back to artists.
The competition is open to all artists across Australia and attracts entries in all mediums from traditional forms to new media artworks.
16 May 2025 – 07 July 2025 9:30am – 4:30pm
Gosford Regional Gallery
This year the prize pool has increased in all categories. The acquisitive Gosford Art Prize winner is awarded $25,000, the Ceramics Prize $10,000, the First Nations Artist Prize $10,000 and the inaugural Moving Image Art Award $10,000. Entrants in all categories are eligible for the major award.
The winners will be announced at the exhibition opening event Friday September 5 starting at 6pm
It is open to artists from all disciplines across Australia, with artworks in any medium.
Read all of the details for the competition and enter by clicking below.
STILL: National Still Life Award is Yarrila Arts and Museum’s national biennial acquisitive art award. Established in 2017, STILL aims to recognise excellence, diversity and innovation in contemporary still life practice while broadening the interpretation of this enduring genre.
STILL: National Still Life Award is open to artists at all stages of their practice and working across all mediums, including but not limited to painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video and installation.
STILL 2025 has a prize pool of $36,000.
Awards
STILL: National Still Life Award: $30,000 (acquisitive)
Coffs Coast Artist Award: $5,000
People’s Choice Award: $1,000
Award winners will be selected by a panel of judges.
Key dates
Applications open 1 April, 9am
Entries close 6 July
Finalists announced 18 July
Artwork deliveries 11-15 August
Exhibition opens Saturday 6 September
Exhibition closes Sunday 9 November
Key information
Artist must be an Australian Resident
Artists may submit up to 3 entries.
Download the Conditions of Entry here
ENTER HERE
Do you have a question? Email us at still@chcc.nsw.gov.au