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

Crescendo25 Book Award Finalists

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ROSLYN KEAN Jukatu- Tiny Houses Japan Vol 3 2025, handprinted woodcuts

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

DANIELLE CREENAUNE In a way I try to live my life by these small words 2024, Lithograph and mokulito print on Zerkall and Gampi paper. Hardcover Japanese stab binding. 24x30cm

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

RO MURRAY Scroll IX 2024, lino print and ink on piaola roll, 270cm long

HURRAY Wama Art Prize 2025 Is Open For Works on Paper

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MARTIN KING tree of life, diary of lost souls in twenty volumes No2, 2023

The Wama Art Prize, 2025 Works on Paper is now open for submissions

Australia’s National Award for Environmental Art

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

Nathalie Gautier-Hartog: Paper Universe at the State Library of NSW

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NATHALIE GAUTIER_HARTOG Looking for Paradise , 2019
Acquire by the State Library NSW 2024

Nathalie Gautier-Hartog, a Sydney Printmakers member, has her work Looking for Paradise on display in the exhibition Paper Universe: the Book as Art, State Library NSW.

The exhibition runs until Sunday 3 May 2026

https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/paper-universe-book-art

Artist Statement: The work creates a parallel between Australian government policies and their consequences on refugees’ quest in looking for a better place to live, a search for paradise and their dreams to find a refuge. Central to the theme of the work, I am bringing the stories of these immigrants, relegated to the margin of society, to the centre page. The 12 books look into how past and present policies instigated to help or denied entry to people in need of a “safe heaven”. The books are presented in a barb wire cage alluding to the restrictive movements imposed on refugees.

Mark Rowden Paper Sydney Contemporary

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MARK ROWDEN Happy Little Vegemite 2025, three-colour lino print

For Sydney Printmakers Mark Rowden will be part of

Art Night Demonstration in Paper

at Sydney Contemporary Thursday 11 September, 6:30–8:00 PM 

 hand-printing multi-block lino works and sharing both finished and in-progress print

Mark’s new release Happy Little Vegemite will be available at the Whaling Road Studio Booth

Mark is also a finalist in both

the MRAG Nude and Naked Art Prize 2025

https://mrag.midcoast.nsw.gov.au/Exhibitions/Current-Exhibitions/Naked-Nude-Art-Prize-2025

and the Woollahra Waverley Art School 9×5 Landscape Prize

Neilton Clarke: HOME GROWN Bound By Place

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NEILTON CLARKE Garden Gigue, 2024
Woodblock print, screen-print, Chine-collé , 125cm x 90cm

Sydney Printmakers’ member Neilton Clarke is part of group show

HOME GROWN: Bound by Place at Art Space on The Concourse in Chatswood.

The exhibition is a key component of Willoughby City Council’s Emerge Festival 2025.

Opens 4 September, runs until 5 October 2025, hours 11am-5pm.

https://www.willoughby.nsw.gov.au/Events/HOME-GROWN-Bound-by-Place