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...

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...

October 2025 What a brilliant GIVEAWAY for one of our lucky followers - ONE free entry to the John Villiers Outback Art Prize. Can you support these important regional Australian art prizes and the communities that rely on them? It's a prize held in Winton, Central Queensland, a beautiful part of regional Australia - where daily life is the complete opposite of city life. I went there in 2023 and found it to be amazing. Alongside the community's strong support for the visual arts, Winton also...