Awards/Comps

Sculptures in the Gaol is on again this year 18th August to the 9th September? Entries close 18th July First Prize $2,500.00 Two highly commended prizes of $250.00 each The online information has been updated. http://www.sculptureinthegaol.com.au/...Read More

Tenterfield Art Prize - Brush with Verse 2012 Set your eyes and ears on our art prize! The Tenterfield Art Prize - A Brush With Verse - bounces back in 2012 with $4,000 worth of cash in the prize pool! It's an opportunity for artists and poets to team up. All art...Read More

The Gallipoli $20,000 Art Prize 2012 - Closing date is 20 March 2012  The Gallipoli Memorial Club is once again calling on Australian, New Zealand and Turkish artists to submit paintings to the $20,000 Gallipoli Art Prize. Artists are invited to submit one piece of original work produced in oil,...Read More

Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award This prestigious award supports emerging professional artists through publishing an image of the winner's work on the back cover of Art & Australia magazine and inside, an article on the winner's practice. One of the 2012 winners will have a work...Read More

THE ERIC ROLLS PRIZE Eric Rolls (1923 – 2007) is recognised as the doyen of Australian Nature Writers. He was the Patron of the Watermark Literary Society and remains Perpetual Patron. The Eric Rolls Prize for a piece of prose fiction or nonfiction in the genre of nature writing is...Read More

XSTRATA PERCIVAL PORTRAIT AWARD. Entries Close March 30th 2012 Entries will be exhibited at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville’s Regional Gallery, from 4 May to 1 July 2012. Artists may enter ONE artwork only. The portrait is to be of a ‘REAL’ PERSON. It is expected that the subject of the work...Read More

Women On The World International Cartoon Competiton Open to all women artists world wide over the age of 18 years to convey their social comment on world issues today in cartooning format. WoW is aimed at promoting women and women’s issues, cartooning generally and Australia’s only cartoon gallery – The...Read More

2012 Macquarie Photography Prize - Entry deadline 24th May 2012 The 2012 Macquarie Photography Prize categories will be 'Funny Faces', 'Storms', 'Architecture' and 'Arthouse'. Entrants are eligible from any country and any age. Prizemoney is $10,000AUD ............ at this stage. It might yet be increased. Best in Show will receive $5,000AUD and...Read More

Arts & Health Competition for Rural Australians Entries close 6 January 2012, 5pm An art competition is being conducted by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) in partnership with the National Rural Health Alliance to source cover art for the AIHW’s forthcoming publication Australia’s Health 2012. The theme...Read More

Why i love my library - Writing competition - Closing Date:   15 November, 2011  Great Lakes Residents only Friends of Great Lakes Library Service Inc. have announced a writing competition for residents of the Great Lakes Council area. The topic “Why I Love My Library” is designed to highlight the importance...Read More

Promote your art through CAL's Artlike competition Artlike is an art competition run through CAL’s Artists’ Resale Royalty Facebook page - where budding artists can submit their work to CAL for posting on the page, with the winner chosen by the amount of ‘Likes’ received. The winning artwork will be published...Read More