MAC Yapang Art Prize 2025

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Call for entries for inaugural MAC yapang art prize

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.

Key dates

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

Call for Entries Crescendo 2025 Artist’s Book Awards

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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.

Terms and Conditions

Entry Form

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.

Call out to exhibit with the Print Council Australia

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Come and exhibit at the PCA! 


Call for Expressions of Interest to exhibit in the gallery. Individuals and groups / collectives / studios are encouraged to apply. Proposals may be inter-disciplinary but must contain elements of contemporary printmaking. This may be in the form of artists’ books, established or experimental forms of print and more broadly paper-based art. With the addition of our gallery space 2, there are even more opportunities for exhibitors!

All the details of how to register your EOI are on the website here.

Expressions now close July 31st, 2025.

Roz Kean Selected Finalist For Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize

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Roslyn Kean, Ground Lines III 2025, US Hand printed woodcut on Japanese Kozo Paper 80.5x125cm

Congratulations to Sydney Printmakers member Roz Kean who has been selected finalist for the prestigous Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize 2025. https://www.ravenswoodartprize.com.au/

Exhibition of Finalists: 21 June- 6 July

Gary Shinfield At Hawkesbury Regional Gallery

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Gary Shinfield After the Fires 3, 2020, unique state relief print on tapa cloth, 78 x 118cm

Group Show

BURNT INTO MEMORY

7 June – 17 August 2025

Opening Night: 6 – 8pm Friday 6 June

In the summer of 2019-2020 communities across Australia experienced some of the worst bushfires in living memory. Known as the Black Summer Bushfires, the impact of these collective fire events was catastrophic on individuals and communities.

Burnt into Memory explores these events within the context of reflection, healing, resilience and forward momentum.

Artists: Sarah Allely and Bill Code, Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler, Katherine Boland, Penelope Cain, Cathy Franzi, Jody Graham, Anna Glynn, Freya Jobbins, Laura Jones, Gary Shinfield, Leanne Tobin, Leanne Watson, Julie Williams, Freedom Wilson

For more information on programs and to make a booking visit:

hawkesburygallery.eventbrite.com

Gary Shinfield is featured in the latest edition of Rochford Street Review Number 42, an online poetry and small press site. https://rochfordstreetreview.com/. Issue 42

Ro Murray At Articulate And The State Library

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Ro Murray, Conglomerate I,II (detail), lino print on pianola rolls, 2025

LOCUS/LOCI

A place, a locus, as it exists in space, time and experience

GROUP SHOW
Mandy Burgess Sarah Fitzgerald Jan Handel Ro Murray Lisa Woolfe

7 – 29 June 2025

Articulate Project Space

Opening hours 11am – 5pm Fri – Sun, 497 Parramatta Road Leichhardt

Opening drinks 3 – 5pm Saturday June 7

Artist Talks 2pm June 22

Closing drinks 3 – 5pm Sunday 29

The State Library of NSW

Ro Murray, SCROLL VI lino print on pianola roll, 2024

SCROLL VI was selected for the Artists Book Awards Manly Library 2025, and has been acquired by the State Library of NSW. The work included excerpts from William Hovell’s journal on the overland journey from Lake George to Port Phillip in 1824, with Hamilton Hume and six convicts.

Gosford Art Prize Call For Entries

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GAP25 Terms and Conditions

The competition is open to all artists across Australia and attracts entries in all mediums from traditional forms to new media artworks.

Gosford Art Prize 2025 – Call for Entries

16 May 2025 – 07 July 2025 9:30am – 4:30pm
Gosford Regional Gallery 

Entries close on 7 July 2025 at 4pm

Enter here: Gosford Art Prize 2025

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