Western Australia's The Lester Prize for portraiture offers a prize pool of over $120,000 spread across two exhibitions and ten categories....
Cassie Rowe’s ‘Shirley’ wins The Lester Prize 2024 People’s Choice
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Stephen Bush wins the Paul Guest Drawing Prize 2024
The biennial Paul Guest Drawing Prize highlights contemporary drawing practice in Australia. In 2024, the non-acquisitive cash award has increased to $18,000....
Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award 2024 finalists announced
Twenty-five finalists have been selected for the 2024 Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award, a new art prize for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists working in any medium....
‘The Flanagan’ returns to its origins as a major exhibition at St Patrick’s College
The 2025 Flanagan Art Prize offers $18,000 in prizes across three categories – the Flanagan Art Prize, Young Flanagan Art Prize and Clontarf Art Prize....
Lori Pensini wins the 2024 Portia Geach Memorial Award
The $30,000 Portia Geach Memorial Award is presented annually to a female Australian artist for the best portrait painted from life of a man or woman distinguished in art, letters or the sciences....
Nicole Kelly wins the 2024 Evelyn Chapman Art Award for young painters
The biennial award provides a $50,000 scholarship to support a young Australian painter working in oil or tempera, to further their artistic knowledge and practice internationally or in Australia....
tidal.24: City of Devonport Tasmanian Art Award finalists
The $20,000 major acquisitive award is open to both two- and three-dimensional works by artists who reside in or have a strong connection with Tasmania....
Hannah Gartside wins the 2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
Hannah Gartside's use of second-hand gloves brings to life tender interactions, and moments with oneself, through the form of anthropomorphised rabbits....
Robert Fielding wins the 2024 Bowness Photography Prize
Of the winning image, Robert Fielding says, "This work is old and new. Present but secretive. One must look back to move forward, always honouring our land and culture."...
National Works on Paper 2024 award recipients
The biennial National Works on Paper (NWOP) event presents a generation-defying survey of contemporary art, celebrating the medium of paper in all its forms...
2024 Wollumbin Art Award winners announced
The biennial $30,000 Wollumbin Art Award celebrates the calibre and diversity of artists living and working, in any medium, on Bundjalung Country....
Gemma Smith wins the 2024 Mosman Art Prize
The winning work was made through the accumulation of many single layers applied on a daily basis while on a New York-based artist’s residency....