Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize: Call for Entries

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Artists and designers are agents of change, often taking the lead in responding to environmental or societal challenges. The Environmental art and design prize brings together a dynamic community of artists, designers and audiences who care deeply about our future.  

Each year, we invite audiences to explore the diverse ways artists and designers Australia-wide have interpreted our unique Australian landscape, responded to our climate emergency and advocated for our planet through their creative practices.

Prize pool of $42,000 includes:

  • $5,000 for each of the Open categories
  • $2,000 for each of the Young Artists & Designers categories
  • $3,000 for the People’s Choice Awards.

Call-out open:            17 Mar – 14 May 2023

Exhibition dates:        4 – 27 August 2023

The Prize categories are:

  • Ceramics & small sculpture
  • Film
  • Interdisciplinary collaboration
  • Painting & mixed media
  • Works on paper & photography
  • Wearable design
  • Functional design
  • Young artists and designers 7-12 years and 13 – 18 years.

Winners from each category are awarded by an expert panel of judges.

Entries are open until 12pm (AEST) Sunday 14 May 2023.

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Remagine Art Prize Call for Entries

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Polyethelene water bottles, mirror
Image: Winner, 2022 Remagine Art Prize, Nadine Schmoll, Five Vessels, Polyethelene water bottles, mirror, 2022



Hornsby Shire Council’s waste and environmental art prize Remagine is now open with $11,000 in total prize money.

Hosted by Hornsby Shire Council in partnership with the Hornsby Art Society since 2009, the Remagine Art Prize challenges artists to create works in response to the crisis we are all facing, with waste and over-consumption.

This year’s theme is Wasteland or wonderland referring to the decisions we make each day about how much waste we create. Will our future be a ‘wasteland’ or can we start taking steps to create a ‘wonderland’ by making better choices to build a circular economy where we protect the world’s finite natural resources and see waste as a valuable resource?

Entries are open to digital stills, sculpture, mixed media, painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, and printmaking.

There are six prizes to be won this year:

  • First prize: $5,000
  • Second prize: $3,000
  • Recycled/reused Materials Award $1,000
  • Local Artist Award: $1,000
  • Youth Award (16-21 years): $750
  • People’s Choice Award: $250

“We are always impressed with the way artists respond to the waste management themes of our Remagine Art Prize. We know that many contemporary artists are concerned about waste and how it is impacting the planet. We are sure that this year’s theme will invoke a wonderful response,” said Hornsby Shire Mayor Philip Ruddock.

“The extraction of resources, production, transport, consumption and disposal of new products directly impacts on our environment including losing valuable resources to landfill, contaminating land and contributing to climate change. We hope that this year’s art prize and exhibition help raise awareness of how waste and over-consumption impacts all eco-systems and biodiversity including native wildlife, aquatic species, and birdlife.”

Entries to the Remagine Art Prize close on Wednesday 26 April 2023 and the winners will be announced at the award ceremony on Friday 19 May 2023.

The Remagine Art Prize exhibition will be held from Thursday 18 May until 4 June 2023, at Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby.

For further information and to enter visit https://www.hornsby.nsw.gov.au/remagine.

Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2023

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The biennial Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award is a significant national exhibition that aims to elevate the status of work on paper while supporting and promoting artists working with this medium. With awards totalling $26,000 the biennial Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award showcases outstanding art created with, on or about paper. Awards include the $15,000 major award, the $5,000 Young and Early Career Artist Award, the $5,000 Friends of Hazelhurst Local Artist Award, and the $1,000 People’s Choice Award. Hazelhurst’s installation crew also select an artist for the Residency Award: a 4-week studio residency. The exhibition will present a diverse range of works including drawing, printmaking, collage, photography, sculpture, paper cuts and video.

Entries close midnight Friday 30 June 2023. A list of finalists whose work has been selected for the exhibition was be announced on Friday 28 July 2023. Finalists will be exhibited in the Main Gallery at Hazelhurst Arts Centre from 16 September to 12 November 2023.

The Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award is open to original works made on, or principally with, paper. Mediums may include but are not limited to drawing, painting, watercolour, collage, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation and video. There are no size restrictions for works entered into the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award.

The entry fee is $45 per artwork. Artists can submit up to three artworks. Works must have been made after 1 January 2022.

To enter fill out and submit the form below. Please note: Entries must be submitted online. Entries will not be accepted if entered by post or email. 

Art on Paper submission form

You must read the Art on Paper terms and conditions prior to submitting your entry.

Please Note: Once you have submitted your entry, please email hazelhurst@ssc.nsw.gov.au with the subject line Art on Paper so we can double check your entry has been received properly. No need to write anything in the body of the email.

Payment: Once you hit the submit button you will be taken to the payment screen. The cost is $45 per artwork submitted.

Attaching images: Please attach one high resolution image per work. Two detailed images can also be attached if necessary.

Images must be under 3MB and must be a jpeg file or they will not attach correctly.

Firestation Print Studio National Monoprint Prize Call for Entries Opening Soon

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Plenty of time to prepare your entry!

Biennial Australian
Monoprint Prize 2023
Fire Station Print Studio is again hosting this National Prize ​September 20 – October 21, 2023Key Dates:
Entries Open: February 15th
Entries Close: July 5th
Announcement of Finalists:
August 5th
 2023 Monoprint Prize Judges: 
Anthony Fitzpatrick, curator, Tarra Warra Museum of Art, &
Brent Harris renowned Australian Painter and printmaker. Thank you to our major sponsor

Burnie Print Prize 2023 Call for Entries

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The prestigious biennial Burnie Print Prize will be the feature of the Burnie Arts exhibition program for 2023.

The Burnie Print Prize presents the best works from established, emerging and cross-disciplinary artists.  All artists living and working in Australia are encouraged to enter a print or artist’s book created using any printing process.

A record prize pool of $22,000 includes an overall winner prize of $16,000, an emerging artist prize of $5,000 and a peoples choice award of $1,000.

Entries are open now (until 24 March) and can be submitted on line HERE

The Burnie Print Prize exhibition will run at the Burnie Regional Art Gallery from 21 July to 8 September 2023 (winners announced 21 July).

Call for Entries: Dunedoo Art Unlimited

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The 2023 Art Unlimited exhibition will be held in Dunedoo on 20/21 May and 27/28 May 2023.

The exhibition will be open 9:30am – 4pm (3pm Sunday 28th )

​Art Unlimited have introduced a new prize for printmaking for the 2023 exhibition.

Closing date for entry forms is Thursday 20 April 2023

Key Dates

Date for postal delivery of artworks: Prior to Thursday 11 May 2023

Date for personal delivery of artwork: Saturday 13 May & Sunday 14 May 2023 (9am-3pm)

Judging: Friday 19 May 2023

Official opening & prize announcement: 7pm, Friday 19 May 2023

Date for removal of artworks: Sunday 28 May 2023 (3pm-7pm)

​Enter Here

Terms and Conditions

Call for Entries: Muswellbrook Art Prize

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Muswellbrook Art Prize

Since 1958, the Muswellbrook Art Prize has grown and evolved and is today one of the richest prizes for painting in regional Australia. Finalists for the Muswellbrook Art Prize vie for a total of $70,000 prize money across three prize categories: Painting ($50,000 acquisitive), Works on Paper ($10,000 acquisitive), and Ceramics ($10,000 acquisitive).

Astute adjudication of the Prize over the years has yielded an excellent collection of modern and contemporary Australian paintings, works on paper and ceramics from the Post War period of the 20th Century and into the 21st Century, with the winning acquisitive works forming the nucleus of what is now known as the Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection. Previous winners of the Muswellbrook Art Prize include such key figures as David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Richard Larter and Fred Williams. The Upper Hunter Region is also well represented with a number of local artists being successful in winning the Prize including Peter Atkins, Dale Frank, Lyn Nash and Hanna Kay.

Along with Muswellbrook Shire Council, who since 1958 has acted as sponsor and administrator of the Muswellbrook Art Prize, Bengalla Mining Company has generously sponsored the Prize for close to three decades, their commitment ensuring the development of the Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection.

Key Dates 2023

  • Entries Open – November 2022
  • Entries Close – 13 January 2023
  • Finalists Announced – 27 January 2023
  • Exhibition Launch Event and Announcement of Winners – 25 February 2023
  • Exhibition Dates – 27 February to 29 April 2023

Terms and Conditions

Enter Here: https://www.artgalleria.com/portal/muswellbrookartprize

Image on Splash Page: Detail, Margaret Loy Pula, Anatye – Bush Potato 2012, acrylic on Belgian linen, 149 x 152cm, Winner Muswellbrook Art Prize 2013, Painting, Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection.

Call for Entries: Burwood Art Prize

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Visibility, Ritual and Legacy

The Burwood Art Prize invites artists across Sydney to engage, consider and reflect upon one or more of the following themes; Visibility, Ritual and Legacy. Each of these words can be examined and negotiated in a literal, abstract, formal and informal sense.

We encourage you to see these words as lenses through which your art can be perceived by different people in different ways; a portal and invitation to our audiences to explore broader ideas around identity, community, culture and personal experience. Artists are also invited to consider how each of these themes may connect or disconnect with their practice, experience, surroundings or environment.

For 2023, the Art Prize has been opened up to a series of new categories, and will accept works in the following mediums:

•Digital artworks (moving or still)
•Photography
•Painting
•Printmaking
•Drawing

We are also thrilled to announce that for the first time the Prize will be open to all Sydney-based artists who are Australian citizens or permanent residents. We are asking artists to engage with one or more of the following themes guiding the prize: Visibility, Ritual and Legacy.

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