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
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
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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.
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
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Cast iron wheel and frame (converted from English 1890s mangle), hasn’t been used for years. 60cm roller, steel bed
ETCHING PRESS TO GIVE AWAY, PICK UP FROM FROM KOGARAH
TO VIEW CONTACT COLLEN 02 9546 6558 OR SIMON 0432 917 398
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.
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.
Applications for 2026 close 31st October 2025 at midnight.
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
Please join Sandi Rigby in her solo exhibition
Resonance
of Paintings, Drawings & Prints
Drinks 3pm Saturday 11 October
Corner Gallery Stanmore, NSW
cnr Percival &Myrtle Streets, Stanmore
Thurs 9 – Tues 14 October, 11-6pm or by appt 0438 657 379 @sandi.rigby
Amongst the 61 finalists for the Crescendo25 Artist Book Award were three Sydney Printmakers: Danielle Creenaune, Roz Kean and Ro Murray.
The curatorial team consists of Liz Jeneid, JudyBourke, Lucia Parrella and Kathryn Orton.
Crescendo25 Artist Book Award will be judged by Dianne Fogwell
The Prize will be opened by Akky van Ogtrop
6-8pm Friday 14 November
https://artsclifton.org/event/crescendo-2025-artist-book-award
The exhibition will be on show at
Clifton School of Arts 15 -30 November 2025
338 Lawrence Hargrave Drive Clifton NSW. Open daily 10am-5pm
entries close 15 October
Now in its third edition, Wama’s biennial art prize has established itself as Australia’s leading award dedicated to environmental art, recognising artists deeply engaged with the natural world.
The Wama Art Prize finalists will be exhibited at the newly open National Centre for Environmental Art near Halls Gap, Victoria.
Aquisitive Prize, and works for sale
https://www.wamafoundation.com.au/experience/wama-art-prize-2025