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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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...
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September 2025 It's the quiet time for art prize calls right now as you can see by the smaller number of sponsored calls listing. The number of prizes calling at this time of the year is a third of that in the first half of the year. And this year, it was particularly busy for me even though I was travelling overseas for that period. The life of a digital nomad feels more attractive now i see how easy it can be. Anyway, with this quiet spell, I've taken this opportunity to work on new...
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July 2025 Naked and the nude - without a bloody revolution in Australia our heroic ideal was more like the moleskin clad explorer and not the heroic nude of liberty. It's only hit me on our most recent trip to Europe. The full review is here (on our blog page). Recently announced Winners Gareth Sansom has been awarded the ($125,000) major prize for the Sorrento Art Prize. Wade Taylor has been awarded the ($10,000) major prize for the City of Rockingham Art Prize Janet Laurence has been...
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Sponsored Calls for Artists June 2025 Updated - The Bowness Photography Prize in 2025 Exciting developments are afoot for this year's Bowness Photography Prize at the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh)! It's now in its 20th year, and we're seeing some significant changes that establish the prize as the richest award for photography in Australia. Artists will now be paid to show their work in the Bowness Photography Prize exhibition — all finalists will receive loan fees, and the prize's...
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