Art Prizes calling this May

Calling now are a number of speciality prizes for:

• photography - the Mullins, the Olive Cotton and the Bowness
• sculpture - Deakin University Small Sculpture Prize
• grants - two grants on offer by the William Fletcher Foundation (both have been trending strongly on our Instagram channel)
• landscape - the Hawkesbury, 9x5 and the Paddington Art Prize
• portraiture - the Lester Prize and the Portia Geach

Leading Art Prize Finalists - 1st May 2025

Our table of high-performing finalists is not a competition in itself - more an interesting view of which artists have been popular with the judges in 2025. At the top is Datsun Tran. The other artists on the list are also performing incredibly well.

We produced this listing based on the following prizes announcing their 2025 finalists:

Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Archibald Prize, Bayside Painting Prize, Blacktown City Art Prize, City of Rockingham Art Prize, Collie Art Prize, Flanagan Art Prize, Gallipoli Art Prize, Glover Prize, Gold Award, Heysen Sculpture Biennial, John Villiers Outback Art Prize, Milburn Art Prize, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Nillumbik Prize, Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, Omnia Art Prize, Queensland Regional Art Awards, Ripper Art Prize, Sir John Sulman Prize, Sorrento Art Prize, St Columba's Art Prize, Wynne Prize.

Winners 2025

It is one of those strange things where some prizes are slow to announce the winners on their website/Instagram - I don't really get it. But here are the artists we know who have been awarded prizes this year (ordered by last name):

These prizes are calling during May:

9x5 Landscape Prize, Abstraction, Almenara Art Prize, Anthology Cover Art Competition 2025, Anthology Photography Competition 2025, Arte Laguna Prize, ArtGemini Prize, Australian Artists Awards for Emerging Artists 2025, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Black and White Photo Awards 2025, Blu Sky Artist Award, Camberwell Art Show, Camden Art Prize, Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Doyles Art Award, Eckersley's Art and Craft Prize, Girra Fraser Coast National Art Prize, Hawkesbury Art Prize, Hopper Prize, Kimberley Art and Photographic Prize, Lennox St. Gallery Art Award, Lethbridge 20,000 Small Scale Art Award, Little Things Art Prize , Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize, Mosman Art Prize, Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize, Naked and Nude, Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize, Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture, Paddington Art Prize, Portia Geach Memorial Award, Pro Hart Outback Art Prize, Pyrmont Art Prize, Queen's Wharf Brisbane Art Prize, RQAS Annual Members Show, Small Works Art Prize, Smallcombe Portrait Prize, Still: National Still Life Award, Strathnairn Arts Small Sculpture Prize (SASS), Sunshine Coast National Art Prize, The Chelsea International Photography Competition, the churchie emerging art prize, The Lester Prize for Portraiture, The Singleton Art Prize, The William Fletcher Foundation Rome Fellowship, Waterbrook Drawing Prize 2025, Waverley Art Prize, William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, William Fletcher Foundation Grants, Young Paddo Art Prize.

If you'd like to printout the prizes calling for May, June & July ($14.95) click here.

Stay up to date with call for entries - IOS app

If you want to stay in touch with calls or just look up details about an art prize, the Art Prizes iOS app is available from the Apple store for $14.99 - a one-time fee. It shows prizes calling, metrics on prize winners and finalists, and a notification panel showing you which prizes have just started calling or are closing soon.