Australia’s Comprehensive list of Art Prizes Awards and Competitions

Australia’s Comprehensive list of Major and Minor Art Prizes Awards and Competitions

Updated: 12/07/2023

Australia has a wealth of art competitions and prizes throughout the country for your consideration. Whether you’re looking at gaining some exposure in the art work or just challenging yourself to something new, this comprehensive list covers art and photographic competitions from pen on paper to oil paintings to fine art photography.

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Australia’s Comprehensive list of Art Awards and Competitions

 

A

• Aboriginal Art Competition
• Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
• Aesthetica Art Prize
• Albert Park College Art Show
• ANZANG Australian Geographic Nature Photography Competition
• Art Lovers Australia Art Prize
• Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize

B

• Banyule Award for Works on Paper
• Bay of Fires Art Prize
• Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize
• Border Art Prize
• Bowness Photography Prize
• Brett Whitely Travelling Art Scholarship
• Brisbane Portrait Prize
• Burwood Art Prize
• By George! International Biennial Art Prize

C

• Calleen Art Award
• City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Art Prize
• Clayton Utz Art Award
• Clemenger Contemporary Art Award
• Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Arts

D

• D’Arcy Doyle Awards
• Darling Portrait Prize
• Dobell Drawing Prize
• Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

E

• Evelyn Chapman Art Award

F

• Fisher’s Ghost Art Award
• Fleurie Art Prize
• Footscray Art Prize
• Freemantle Art Prints Award

G

• Gabi Tatui Indigenous Art Award
• Georges River Art Prize
• Glover Prize
• Gold Coast Art Prize
• Grace Cossington Smith Biennial Art Award

H

• Hadley’s Art Prize
• Hawkesbury Art Prize
• Helen Lempriere Scholarships
• Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize

J

• Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award
• Josephine Ulrich and Win Schubert Photography Award

K

• Kennedy Prize
• Kilgour Art Prize

L

• Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award
• Lethbridge Gallery Landscape Art Award
• Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award

M

• MAM Albury National Photographic Prize
• MANDORLA Art Award
• Mosman Art Prize
• Muswellbrook Art Prize

N

• National Capital Art Prize
• National Photographic Portrait prize

P

• Paddington Art Prize
• Portia Geach Memorial Award

Q

• Queensland Regional Art Awards

R

• Ramsay Art Prize
• Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
• Redland Art Awards

S

• Sir John Sulman Prize
• Still: National Still Life Award
• Sunshine Coast Art Prize

T

• TELSTRA NATSIAA Awards – National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Awards
• The Archibald
• The Bald Archie Prize
• The Young Archie
• The Blake Prize
• The Churchie Emerging Art Prize
• The Gallipolli Art Prize
• The Kennedy Prize
• The Lester Prize
• The Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize
• The Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize
• The Olive Cotton Award

W

• WAMA Art Prize
• Wollumbin Art Arward
• Wollumbin Youth Art Award

 

 

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