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Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize: Call for Entries

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Entries now open for the 2025 Environmental Art & Design Prize 

Artists and designers from across Australia, including young people aged 7 to 18 years, are invited to submit work on the theme of the environment. 

This is your chance to be part of the conversation around climate issues and inspire a sustainable future.

A $46,000 prize pool across 4 categories:

  • $20,000 Art
  • $20,000 Design
  • 3,000 Young
  • $3,000 People’s Choice

This year’s esteemed judges are contemporary artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and design curator Keinton Butler.

Entries close 19 May.

Key dates

  • Submission deadline: Fri 19 May, 5pm
  • Finalist notification: Thu 29 May, 5pm
  • Exhibition: Fri 1 Aug – Sun 14 Sep

Enter the 2025 Environmental Art & Design Prize

Submissions close Monday 19 May 2025, 5pm.

Crescendo 2025 Artist’s Book Awards at Clifton School of Arts

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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
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.

Burwood Art Prize 2025 Call for Entries

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Entries close Friday 14 March 2025 at 5:00pm AEST.

I AM HERE

Celebrating Cultural Narratives and Perspectives

The Burwood Art Prize invites artists from across Sydney to engage with the theme I AM HERE, exploring the importance of diverse cultural stories and community identity.

The Burwood Art Prize offers a platform for artists to delve into the significance of personal and shared cultural experiences, celebrating the many voices that shape contemporary multicultural Australia.

The theme I AM HERE encourages artists to reflect on and express their unique perspectives, using their work to build awareness, inspire celebration, and evoke joy. We invite artists to interpret this statement as a call to explore how art can spark meaningful dialogues, connecting audiences with the vibrant experiences that enrich our collective understanding.

We welcome you to be part of this vibrant celebration of culture, where diverse expressions come together to deepen our sense of appreciation for the stories that make us who we are.

  • Entries open: Friday 29 November 2024
  • Entries close: 5.00PM AEST Friday 14 March 2025
  • Finalist notified for Artwork collection for the 2025 Burwood Art Prize Exhibition: April 2025
  • Finalist physical artworks collected: Burwood Library and Hub (2 Conder Street, Burwood): Tuesday 13 May 2025 3.00PM – 7.00PM OR Thursday 15 May 2025 3.00PM- 7.00PM OR Saturday 17 May 2025 11.00AM – 4.00PM
  • 2025 Burwood Art Prize finalists and winners exhibition: Monday 26 May 2025 – Sunday 22 June 2025
  • 2025 Burwood Art Prize Opening night: Thursday 29 May 2025 6.00PM – 8.00PM 
  • Finalists and Winning Artwork collection period post exhibition: Burwood Library and Hub (2 Conder Street, Burwood): Thursday 26 June 3.00PM – 7.00PM OR Saturday 28 June 2025 11.00AM – 4.00PM

2025 Burwood Art Prize Entry Form

Remagine Art Prize Call for Entries

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Remagine Art Prize 2025

Theme – Rethink to Repurpose

Remagine Art Prize is an environmental art prize dedicated to bringing awareness of environmental challenges such as waste and consumption. Held in partnership with the Hornsby Art Society since 2009, Remagine Art Prize is delivered and sponsored by Hornsby Shire Council. This year’s theme ‘RE:THINK TO RE:PURPOSE’ refers to the decisions we make each day about how much waste we create, and how we can reuse materials to help save our precious natural resources. The extraction of raw materials, production, transport, and consumption directly affects our environment, including native wildlife, aquatic species, and birdlife. Artists are asked to submit works that relate to this year’s theme.

This non-acquisitive prize is open to Australian residents aged 18 years and over, with total prizemoney of $11,000. Open to painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, photography, digital stills, and mixed media.

This year’s judges are curator Rhonda Davis and artist Marina DeBris.

Key dates

Call for entries open 20 January 2025 
Entries close 1 May 2025 
Winner announced 13 June 2025 
Exhibition 13 June – 29 June 2025 

The Remagine Art Prize finalists’ exhibition will be held at Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, 25 Edgeworth David Avenue, Hornsby.

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Blacktown Art Prize Call for Entries

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Blacktown City’s annual acquisitive art prize is open to artists across Australia, with a prize pool of over $23,500.

For nearly 30 years, the Blacktown City Art Prize has showcased the creativity of the region and provided emerging and established visual artists the opportunity to exhibit their work.

Finalists in the Blacktown City Art Prize go into the running to win 1 of 5 awards and the opportunity to have their work acquired for the Blacktown City Art Collection.

Emerging and established artists living in Australia are invited to enter work across a diverse range of mediums including painting, drawing, photo media, textiles, mixed media, sculpture, and ceramics.

With a prize pool of $23,500 over 5 prize categories, and an opportunity to be a part of the 2025 exhibition at The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, don’t miss out!
Get your entries in now!

2025 Blacktown City Art Prize categories:
Main Prize (acquisitive): $15,000
First Nations Artist Prize: $2,500
Local Artist Prize: $2,500
Early-Career Artist Prize (acquisitive): $2,500
People’s Choice Prize: $1,000

Submit here: https://bit.ly/3Y2h1h8 

Submit your artwork online by Monday 28 October, 5 pm.
Please note: maximum 2 entries per artist. A separate entry form and payment is required for each entry.

Image credit: Leanne Jones, The Darug story of the 3 sisters song lines. Graphic design: Kim Gregory

Crescendo Artists Book Award

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You have plenty of time to prepare work for this exciting new book award.

Crescendo 2025 Artist Book Award will be open to artists living in Australia and the Asia Pacific. Each artist may submit up to two artist books for consideration. Each entry must be an original work of the artist(s) made after 1 November 2023. Please note that due to space constraints, large scale installation works will not be considered.

Submissions of new work will be accepted from 1 April to 1 August 2025. Selected work will be exhibited at Clifton School of Arts on the northern Illawarra Coast of NSW, Australia in November 2025.

Crescendo 2025 Artist Book Award is non-acquisitive. $5,000 will be awarded to the winning entry and $1,000 to the best entry by a local artist from the Wollongong LGA.

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Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2025: Call for Entries

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Entries are now open for the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art (NPCA) to artists across Australia, working in any medium.

This biennial competition includes four monetary prizes:

  • Open Prize: $20,000
  • Local Prize: $10,000
  • Mayor’s Award: $500
  • People’s Choice Award: $500

The Open and Local Prize are acquisitive. This means that the winning artworks become part of the Nillumbik Shire Art Collection.

Before applying, please be sure to read the 2025 NPCA Guidelines(PDF, 264KB)

Apply now

Library Artists Book Awards

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2025 Artists’ Book Award

The 2025 Artists’ Book Award will open for submissions in September 2024.

More details will be noted here as we approach September.

Join the email list, send a message to ArtistBookAward@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au 

About the award

An artist’s book is a medium of artistic expression that uses the form or function of a ‘book’ as inspiration.

Every two years the Northern Beaches Library Service holds an Artists’ Book Award attracting entries from around the world. Books are selected from the entries to form an exhibition. From the exhibited books, judges then select books to be acquired and added to the 100 plus artist books the Northern Beaches Library Service holds in their collection. This collection is unique to our community and public library service.

Acquired Artists’ Books on display

A rotated selection of our artists’ book collection is on display at Manly Library. Click here for more info.

More information

For further information contact: ArtistBookAward@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au