Competitions
January
The Maitland Art Prize 2009 (annual)
$10,000; 02 4933 6725
Indigenous Ceramic Art Awards 2011 (VIC) (biennial)
$33,000 (03) 5832 9861 www.greatershepparton.com.au
Calleen Art Award (Cowra) (annual)
$12,500; 02 6540 2190 www.cowraartgallery.com.au
February
Muswellbrook Open Art Prize (incorporating the Open Ceramic Award) (biennial next 2011)
$17,500; 02 6549 3880
Muswellbrook Photographic Award (biennial next 2010)
$3,000; 02 6549 3880
Archibald Prize (Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney) (annual)
$35,000; www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
The Wynne Prize (Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney) (annual)
$15,000; www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
Sir John Sulman (Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney) (annual)
$10,000; www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
Swell Sculpture Festival 2009 (Currumbin, QLD) (annual)
$25,000; www.swellsculpture.com
March
Beresfield Art Show (annual)
$3,500; 02 4966 2846 – Angie Cornish (Secretary of Lions Club)
Redeemer Foundation Art Award (Qld) (annual)
$10,000 (07) 3211 8145
April
CPM National Print Awards 2009 (Murwillumbah) (biennial)
$4,300; 02 6672 8276 or www.cpmprintstudio.com
Newcastle Emerging Artist Prize
$5,000; www.newcastleartspace.org
Albury Art Prize 2009
$20,000; 02 60513480
Currabubula Red Cross Art Exhibition (annual)
$10,400; 02 6768 9075 (Kay Pittman)
Waste as Art Community Art Competition & Exhibition (Newcastle) (annual)
$5,150+; 02 4908 6848 or www.hweg.com.au
Prometheus Visual Arts Awards (QLD, Brisbane) (biennially)
$15,000; (07) 5530 3236 www.prometheusartaward.com.au
May
Murrurundi Keddies Pastoral Photographic Prize 2009
$10,000; www.murrurundiphotographicprize.com.au
MIL-PRA AECG Aboriginal Exhibition and Art Award 2009 Casula Powerhouse
$1500; 02 9821 4273
The Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival of Arts Inc. Annual Art Prize Exhibition
$4,500; 02 6343 2924
Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture (Tweed River Art Gallery)
$12,500; 6670 2790
Kempsey Shire Art Prize 2011 (biennial)
$6,300; 02 6566 3200
Merriwa Art & Photography Exhibition (biennial)
$3,200; 02 6548 2068
Arts on Show Awards AFS Friendly Care Pharmacy (QLD, Mackay) (annual)
$9,500; (07) 4957 3916
June
Hazelhurst Art Award for Art on Paper (Gymea) (annual)
$18,000; 02 8536 5700
Outback Art Prize (Broken Hill) (annual)
$16,300; 08 8080 3449
Norvill Art Prize (Murrurundi) (biennial next 2010)
$16,000; 02 6546 6620
Singleton Art Prize (annual)
$10,000; 02 6574 5185
47th Weston Art Show 2010 (annual)
$6,000; 02 49373201 Cathy Gilshenen
The James Kiwi Watercolour Prize 2010 (Wollongong) (biennial)
$2,000; 02 4228 7500
Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting (annual)
$35,000; 13 23 56 www.countryenergy.com.au/artprize
July
Arts and Ceramic Exhibition (Gunnedah) (annual)
$3890; Paintings-02 67447870, Ceramics-02 67423976
Mosman Art Prize (annual)
$26,000; 02 9978 4178
Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize (Campbelltown) (annual)
$20,000; 02 4645 4333
St James Art Show (Muswellbrook) (annual)
Works are for sale; 02 6543 3094
42nd Annual Raymond Terrace Art Show 2009(annual)
$8,350; 0407 289 729
August
2009 Singleton Show; photography & fine arts
02 6572 2039
Art in the Vines, 10th Annual Exhibit 2009
$3,300; 02 6579 1036 or 0265 791 000
Port Stephens Art Prize (Nelson Bay) (annual)
$3,000; 02 4984 6067 or www.artscentre.nelsonbay.com
Aqua Sculpture (Port Macquarie) (biennial next 2011)
$7,000; 02 6581 8658 or www.aquasculpture.com.au
The Friends of Wollongong City Gallery Photographic Portrait Prize
$3,300; 02 4228 7500 (J Clingan)
The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (annual)
$13,000; 02 9391 7135
EMSLA Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (annual)
$22,500; 02 6648 4860 (Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery)
Dobell Prize for Drawing (Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney) (annual)
$20,000; www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
Art in the Vines (Broke) (annual)
$3,300; 02 6579 1036
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (Grafton) (annual)
$20,000; 02 6642 3177
Warwick Art Prize (QLD) (annual)
$7,750; 07 4661 0434
Josephine Ulrick National Photography Prize for Portraiture (Murwillumbah) (annual)
$9,000; 02 6670 2790
Scone Art Prize
$7,400
Banool Conservation Art Prize (annual)
$4,000; 02 6543 7160 or 0426 101 697
The Walkom Manning Art Prize (Taree) (annual)
$10,000; 02 6592 5455 www.gtcc.nsw.gov.au
Gosford Art Prize (Gosford) (Annual)
$16,500; 02 4325 0056 www.gosfordregionalgallery.com
Redland Art Award (QLD) (Annual)
$13,500; www.redlandsartawards.org.au
September
Liverpool City Art Prize 2009
$10,000; 02 9824 1121
Art & Ceramics Exhibition (Gunnedah) (annual)
$3,960; 02 6744 7870
Festival of Fishers Ghost Art Award 2009 Campbelltown (annual)
$20,000; 02 4645 4338
Paddington Art Prize 2009 (annual)
$20,000; (02) 9362 0282 www.paddingtonartprize.com.au
October
Muswellbrook Local Art & Ceramic Award including The Esther Bellis Youth Prize (annual)
$4,000; 02 6549 3880
Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award (VIC.) (biennial next 2011)
$33,000; 03 5832 9861 Shepparton Art Gallery
Nundle CWA Art Exhibition
$2,960; 02 6769 3375 www.nundle.org.au
Scone Grammar School Art Show (biennial next 2010)
Works are for sale; 02 6545 3093
The Stanthorpe Art Festival (annual)
$30,000; 07 4681 1874 or www.srag.org.au
Alice Prize National Contemporary Art Award ( Alice Springs) (Annual)
$16,000; www.aliceprize.com
November
Cessnock Regional Art Gallery Youth Art Award ‘Down to Earth’
$6,000; 02 4991 6619 or www.crag.net.au
Fools Cap - The JMG Biennial Art Prize (John Miller Galleries Newcastle)
$4,750; 02 4929 6080
Stanthorpe Arts Festival (QLD) (annual)
$40,000; 07 4681 1874
December
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NB: The media and other criteria for art works varies from prize to prize. Please contact the prize organisers and request and then read carefully the entry forms.
This listing is not comprehensive, many art magazines include prize listings
(eg ArtReach, Photophile) and annual publications are available such as “THE DIRECTORY - Art Competitions & Exhibitions of Australia & NZ” published by Artrillium House or “Money for Visual Artists” produced by The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) contact P.O. Box 60, Woolloomooloo, NSW 2011
ph. 02 9368 1900. Both publications are available here at the Arts Centre in
The Reading Room. Another useful tool is the Art Prizes Update, a monthly
e-newsletter available through Australian Art Collector magazine.
Competition winners
2009 Muswellbrook Local Art Awards
