Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 11-17 August 2025

New award opportunities, commission for Queensland playwrights and grants up to $80,000.
A figure with curly red hair and tattooed arm looking down. Opportunities and awards.

Open to all Australia-based artists, this prize explores the interior-themed genre in art with $4000 and a solo exhibition at Weswal Gallery, Tamworth NSW, on offer.
Entries close 31 August, learn more and enter.

The inaugural Defiance Award offers $3000 to the winner with a solo exhibition at Defiance Gallery in Sydney and a two-week residency at Giverny Artist Residency in Queenstown, Aotearoa New Zealand (flights included). It’s a platform to discover, support and profile exceptional Australian painters.
Entries close 1 September; learn more and enter.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_