July 2026 ART-PRIZES VIEW REPORT Popular Prizes 10 most popular prizes measured by views For the month of June 2026 June 2026 Bars are scaled to the top result. Rank Prize Views 1 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 1,337 2 Paper on Skin International Wearable Paper Art Competition 1,157 3 R & M McGivern Art Prize 895 4 Camberwell Art Show 839 5 9x5 Landscape Prize 748 6 Portia Geach Memorial Award 742 7 John Leslie Art Prize 728 8 Evelyn Chapman Art Award 695 9 Camden Art Prize...
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June 2026 Awards & Exhibitions Adrian Jangala Robertson 2026 Quadruple Finalist Achievement Finalist in four of Australia’s major art prizes in 2026 – Archibald Prize, Wynne Prize, Sir John Sulman Prize, and the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA). He was also a triple finalist in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes in 2024. AWARDS 2022 Winner of the Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT 2020 General Painting Award, Telstra NATSIAA...
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May 2026 New Calls in May Evelyn Chapman Art Award Portia Geach Award (opens in mid-May) Camberwell Art Show Audrey Gibbs Art Prize Popular Prizes in April Prize categories for prizes calling now May 2026 Art Prize Snapshot 48 prizes are calling in May, with $1,521,950 on offer 48 prizes calling in May $1.52M total prize money 5 free-entry prizes Media / Type Breakdown Media / Type Count General 15 Landscape 5 2D works 5 Photography 4 Painting 4 Sculpture 4 Portraiture 3 Emerging 2 Drawing 1...
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April 2026 3 Prizes @ Paddington Art Prize A new chapter is unfolding for the Paddington Art Prize following its landmark 20th anniversary in 2024. Founder Marlene Antico OAM has strategically positioned the prize for sustained growth by entrusting distinct leadership roles to family members: son Chris Antico as Principal Sponsor overseeing financial operations, daughter Pia Antico as Head of Operations & Stakeholder Engagement managing all aspects of the three concurrent prizes, and Izzy...
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March 2026 Winners of the the free entry to the Stanthorpe Prize Thanks to the team at the Stanthorpe Art Prize we have been able to giveaway two free entries - congratulations to Cynthia Copely on winning the first giveaway congratulations to Shellie Cleaver on receiving the second giveaway. Prizes opening calls in the next 45 days There are heaps of prizes continuing their call in February (43 at last count) - but, these are the prizes to commence their 2026 call this month. Doyles Art...
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February 2026 Win a free entry to theStanthorpe Prize You can save $50 by winning a FREE entry.Thanks to our wonderful friends at the Stanthorpe Art Prize ’26 we have a free entry to the Prize to giveaway this week. We will pick the winner randomly from the list of comments. The Stanthorpe Art Prize ’26 has a purse of over $50,000 in prize money. Open to Australian artists. The Giveaway closes Tuesday 3 February at midnight.We'll then randomly choose the winner and DM them on Instagram. If...
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Nearly January 2026 Thank you for your support You are a fantastic group of subscribers and I've absolutely loved providing you with the most up to date calls for entries through the year. Wishing you a great summery holiday. At the time of writing (Boxing Day) there are 32 prizes calling for entries in January and 24 in February. Over the next two months another 40 prizes will commence calling for entries. To keep up to date simply subscribe to the Art Prizes digest and then just watch your...
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December 2025 There are no prizes without finalists The effort and expense that artists incur to enter art prizes is quite extraordinary and is unfortunately often overlooked. We want to record those efforts on behalf of the art prize sector and are continuing to build a unique dataset of finalists for prizes. We can't do this for all prizes as the workload is too great, but we do try to cover as many as we can. I believe this is important data and I'm willing to wait for arts organisations...
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November 2025 If you're viewing this on your phone go to landscape mode for best results due to the larger tables. Shared finalists across prizes in 2025 You may have read about a new prize called the Banksia Prize which, according to the Founders' Letter, is in response to bias in the judging of the bigger Australian art prizes. The Banksia Prize offers all artists an equal chance to be recognised. In most of our nation's top art prizes, judges are aware of who created each work, allowing...
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