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Graham F Smith Arts Peace Award

The Graham F Smith Peace Foundation is a not-for-profit
organisation established in 1989. It embodies Graham’s life
of working for peace, social justice, human rights, and the dignity of labour. The Arts Peace Award provides funding and support for creating new work or developing existing work based on human rights, social justice, environmental sustainability, and peacebuilding principles.
The grant amount is $10,000. The funding must be used to create new work or support the development of work, result in a public showing of the work (or work in progress) and discussion of the process. The work must be completed within 12 months of receiving the funds.

For more details
https://artspeacefoundation.org/grants-awards/arts-peace-award/.

Applications close 5:00pm ACST
Friday 16 October 2026.

Lake House Artist Residency

an initiative of Lake Macquarie City Council.

Two programs offered: Council-funded and self-funded

EOI close on Friday 22 October

For more details

https://mac.lakemac.com.au/Get-involved/Artist-opportunities/Lake-House-
Artist-Residency.

Oppportunities For Members: Closing Soon

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Hawkesbury Now 2026, EOI closes 2 August 2026

The program is organised via an EOI process open to emerging, mid-career and established artists who fit at least one of the following criteria:

  • live within the Hawkesbury Local Government Area (LGA),
  • maintain a studio practice within the Hawkesbury LGA, OR
  • demonstrate a strong connection to the Hawkesbury region through their creative practice, subject matter, or sustained community engagement.

more information: https://www.hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au/gallery/events-and-programs/hawkesbury-now

BigCi Environmental Awards 2026 Call for Submissions,

Deadline Sunday 2 August

$5000 prize and a 4-week residency at Bilpin between the Wollemi and Blue Mountains National Parks More https://art-prizes.com/ArtPrize/BigCi-Environmental-Awards-2026

Korean Cultural Centre Australia ( KCCAU)

open call exhibition program.

Applications close Monday 3 August 2026

More: https://au.korean-culture.org/en/1969/board/1551/read/145836

Australian Parliament House Artist-in-Residence Program

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The Parliament House Artist-in-Residence program is expected to run once every 3 years, coinciding with each Parliamentary term.

The successful artist or group will receive a range of benefits including:

• recognition as Australian Parliament House Artist-in-Residence for the 48th Parliament
• an artist fee for the research phase of $10,000
• an additional commission fee for new work of up to $30,000
• up to 12 months’ access to Parliament House including the Parliamentary Library and Parliament House Art Collections
• travel and accommodation financial assistance.

This is a rare opportunity to spend time behind-the-scenes at Australian Parliament House developing your practice and creating artwork that presents a fresh perspective on the architecture, landscape, role and history of Parliament House.

Applications are open from Tuesday 5 May 2026 until Tuesday 16 June 2026 11am AEST.

APPLY NOW

For more information, including how to apply and the terms and conditions, please see the Statement of Requirements (Guidelines).

A virtual information session will be hosted at two different times on Wednesday 20 May 2026 at 12:30 pm and 5:30 pm.

Please visit our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and Accessibility information webpages to assist with any queries you may have.

If after reading these resources your question isn’t answered, please email art@aph.gov.au with ‘Artist-in-Residence’ in the Subject heading. We will reply to you within 5 working days.

Call For Entries to Sunshine Coast National Art Prize

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DAVID WELLS Dream House with Galah, 2025 acrylic on canvas 100x500cm

The Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2026, hosted by Caloundra Regional Gallery, is inviting Australian residents to submit 2D and new media works for a share of over in prizes, including a major prize and an artist residency. The competition encourages contemporary, innovative practices and covers national freight costs for finalists.

open for entries until 10 May 2026

for more information

https://gallery.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/art-prizes/sunshine-coast-national-art-prize/conditions-of-entry

Opportunities for Members, both Local and International

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Theme: Built to Expire, Closes 19 March

Partnership between Messums UK and Orange Regional Gallery. Valued at $33,000 this six-week residency in the UK must take place between 1 September and 30 November 2026 .

Closes 30 April

https://www.messums.org/learning/full-circle-international-residency-award/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio

St Kevins OMNIA Art Prize Toorak, closes 13 March

Closes 18th May

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

Artist in Residence programme: MPRG

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EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Applications close Friday 22 March, 11:59pm.

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery is currently seeking Expressions of Interest for the 2024 Artist-in-Residence program, at Police Point Shire Park. ⁠⁠The AiR program is open to visual artists, writers, curators, musicians and researchers to undertake a 2- to 6-week residency to engage with the site and the natural and human history of the area. Through the program, MPRG and the Mornington Peninsula Shire aim to support, exhibit and promote ambitious work.⁠⁠The program aims to be a catalyst for immersion, experimentation, connection, collaboration and discourse between participants and with the public. It is an opportunity to widen and strengthen Mornington Peninsula arts communities, support career development of local and emerging artists, and connect Peninsula communities to artists from further afield.⁠⁠Who should apply:⁠We welcome expressions from emerging, mid-career and established artists, based locally, interstate and internationally, in all visual art forms, as well as performance, dance, music, public art, film/video, literature, scientific and/or social research, interdisciplinary arts, architecture and new media. First Nations, LGBTIQA+, culturally and linguistically diverse and artists with disability are encouraged to apply.
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Open Access Paris Workshop

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Seraphina Martin visited Paris in October of this year just in time for the opening of the Bo Halbirk Print Workshop. It’s open to anyone wanting open access or to attend a class. Seraphina caught up with printmaker Laura Osborne from Victoria who was printing a copper plate. They speak English. Something for members looking for a reason to visit Paris to consider ?

Seraphina and the large presses
Seraphina chatting with Laura.

Neilton Clarke in Paris

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Sydney Printmakers member Neilton Clarke is currently undertaking a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris until the new year, on what is his fifth sojourn, having first gone there from 1988 to 1989 on an AGNSW Moya Dyring Scholarship. Hosting artists, musicians, writers, academics and the like from around the globe, the Cité was co-founded in 1965 by husband-&-wife team Felix and Simone Brunau, the latter of whom, as its secretary general, president, and honorary president, passed away in 2021 at the age of 95. Spread over two Paris locales – the Marais site in the 4th arrondissement, and the Montmartre site in the 18th arrondissement – its individual live-in studios are supplemented by a range of facilities including an auditorium, rehearsal studios, and collective studios for both printmaking and ceramics. The Café des Arts offers residents a place to take a break and meet fellow artists.

Goto https://www.citedesartsparis.net for the website.