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...
6 months ago • 2 min read
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...
7 months ago • 2 min read
Art Prizes calling this April Calling now are a number of speciality prizes for: photography - the Mullins and the Olive Cotton (and the Bowness will be calling in mid-April), sculpture - two prizes (Deakin University Small Sculpture Prize and the Toorak Village 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 portraiture - the Lester Prize Leading Art...
8 months ago • 1 min read
Art Prizes calling this March These amazing sponsored prizes are inviting you to send in your entry right now. Welcome to our first email using this new email app - Kit.com I'm still learning how to use this Kit.com to send newsletters, and if I'm lucky, all the links work fine, and it is only delivered to those who are current subscribers. It is quite different to Mailchimp, so let's see how I go. I encourage anyone who receives this email and experiences any problems with it to send me an...
9 months ago • 2 min read
Art Prizes calling this March These amazing sponsored prizes are inviting you to send in your entry right now. Welcome to our first email using this new email app - Kit.com I'm still learning how to use this Kit.com to send newsletters, and if I'm lucky, all the links work fine, and it is only delivered to those who are current subscribers. It is quite different to Mailchimp, so let's see how I go. I encourage anyone who receives this email and experiences any problems with it to send me an...
9 months ago • 2 min read