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Next generation of designers | 2025 Rigg Design Prize exhibition and winner

20 September 2025 | Art Almanac

Alfred Lowe, You and me, us never part I

The Rigg Design Prize highlights the achievements of Australian designers working across ceramics, glass, furniture, woodwork, metalwork, textiles, lighting, and contemporary jewellery....

Jenny Rodgerson’s self-portrait awarded The Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture

20 September 2025 | Art Almanac

Known for her bold and honest self-portraits, Jenny Rodgerson's winning work exudes a rare blend of vulnerability, courage and defiance....

Michelle Hiscock wins the 2025 Portia Geach Memorial Award

19 September 2025 | Art Almanac

Michelle Hiscock, The Weather Watcher after Zurbarán

"It's such an intimate, heartfelt portrait of someone facing the ultimate challenge in life and to know that the panel must have felt that was incredibly affirming." – Michelle Hiscock...

Silke Raetze’s painting, Green Tea with Alex, wins 2025 Hornsby Art Prize

18 September 2025 | Art Almanac

Silke Raetze’s artwork was selected as the winner from a pool of seventy-one finalists, drawn from an incredible 415 artworks submitted from across Australia....

Bowness Photography Prize 2025 winner and honourable mentions

18 September 2025 | Art Almanac

The 2025 winning work challenges conventions of how the landscape is depicted in photography, foregrounding the ephemeral, abstract and painterly qualities of film and light....

Sophie Cape wins $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize

29 August 2025 | Art Almanac

Sophie Cape, Thunder shifts the shivering sands

Sophie Cape's winning work, created in Southern NSW after the 2024 floods and resulting landslides, "is a portrait of survival and decay, beauty and destruction." ...

2025 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize finalists announced

16 August 2025 | Art Almanac

Now in its twenty-fourth year, the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize continues to highlight the dynamic and diverse creativity that defines contemporary sculpture....

STILL: National Still Life Award 2025 finalists announced

18 July 2025 | Art Almanac

This national biennial acquisitive art award recognises excellence, diversity and innovation in contemporary still life practice while broadening the interpretation of the genre....

The Lester Prize | 40 finalists have been selected for its 2025 season

17 July 2025 | Art Almanac

The 2025 season of The Lester Prize – Australia’s richest portraiture prize – offers over $130,000 in prize money to selected winners....

Emerging Artist Award 2025

8 July 2025 | Art Almanac

This annual award celebrates its tenth edition, with two submissions receiving a share in a $3,000 prize pool, and a People’s Choice Award....

Ramsay Art Prize 2025

30 June 2025 | Art Almanac

Celebrating its fifth iteration, the Ramsay Art Prize encourages contemporary Australian artists under forty to make their best work, unrestrained in scale and medium....

Bayside Painting Prize 2025

2 June 2025 | Art Almanac

Established as the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize in 2015 and relaunched in 2024 as the Bayside Painting Prize, this is the only annual prize for painting in Victoria....