call for entries

Burwood Art Prize 2026

January 28, 2026 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

Acquisitive Award $20,000

for the Burwood Council Collection. This year also marks an exciting new partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art.

THEME: I AM HERE

Celebrating Cultural Narratives and Perspectives.

The 2026 theme I AM HERE invites artists to consider ideas of presence, identity and place in their work. It acknowledges the role of cultural identity, lived experience and community in contemporary multicultural Australia and will guide the selection and presentation of works in the 2026 Burwood Art Prize exhibition.

Artists are encouraged to interpret this statement as an invitation to explore how art can facilitate dialogue and connect audiences with the different experiences that inform our sense of community.

Entries close 5pm Monday 16 March

exhibition dates 25 May-8 June

works on paper max size 100x100cm including frame

Swan Hill Print +Drawing Awards

January 27, 2026 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

BIENNIAL NATIONAL PRINT & DRAWING
ACQUISITIVE AWARDS
$20,000

ENTRIES CLOSE 17 MAY 2026

for more information

https://www.swanhillregionalartgallery.com.au/Whats-on/Print-Drawing-Awards.aspx

Entries Open for the 69th Blake Prize

November 3, 2025 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

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.

Call For Entries to Lane Cove Art Award

June 30, 2025 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

Lane Cove Art Society invites all Australian artists to enter the prestigious 2025 Lane Cove Art Award. The acquisitive 1st prize is $15,000 (sponsored by Lane Cove Council).

Important dates

Entries close: Sunday 3 August (11:59pm)
Judges’ selection: Monday 4 August – Friday 15 August
Finalists notification: Friday 22 August
Delivery of works: Saturday 14 September 10am-4pm
Opening and awards presentation: Friday 19 September 6pm-8pm
Exhibition open: Wednesday 17 September – Saturday 4 October
Collection of works: Monday 6 October – Tuesday 7 October 9:30am-4:30pm

ENTER via: https://lanecoveartsociety.com.au/the-lane-cove-art-award/

MAC Yapang Art Prize 2025

June 26, 2025 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

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

June 25, 2025 by Ro Murray Leave a Comment

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.