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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 4 to 10 August 2025

Now open: 2026 Stella Prize, Emerging Artist Award, Songwriting Competition, Peter Porter Poetry Prize and more grants and opportunities.

The artist Loribelle Spirovski (a young woman with brown hair in an up do smiling) with her hand on the shoulder of her sitter, William Barton (a middle-aged Aboriginal man holding a didgeridoo) in front of a large portrait painting of Barton sitting at in a room with a similar position.
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Arts prize winners and finalists: 29 July to 4 August 2025

William Barton portrait awarded Archibald People's Choice, memoir of war wins National Biography Award. This week's prize winners and finalists.

Young man with white t-shirt in lecture theatre at educational facility. University cuts
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Shock to bewilderment as ANU strips cultural legacies and denies creative futures

Whose good idea was it to take an axe to ANUs Schools of Art and Design, Music and Museum Studies?

A series of inflatable bubbles celebrating the Tour de France.
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Tour de France inspires a surge of cycling-themed art installations and illustrations

As the Tour de France Femmes powers through its 2025 stages, artists and cities continue to celebrate cycling’s cultural legacy…

Two large illuminated relief works, one orange and one dark blue, displayed on a wall. A figure is observing the orange work. free exhibitions.
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Free exhibitions in South Australia August 2025

Your guide to free exhibitions in SA this August, including SALA, Mark Valenzuela at ACE, Ramsay Art Prize and more.

Georgian style building in leafy university campus. ANU School art and design
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ANU's planned restructure threatens studio arts practice

Details of the proposed changes at ANU's School of Art and Design have sparked grave concerns.

Discover the best new opportunities, grants and awards. Image: Noah Buscher on Unsplash.
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 28 July to 3 August 2025

ArtsPay releases No Fuss funding, 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards now open, callout for new romance anthology, New York residency…

Five middle-aged Caucasian artists standing in a gallery with beige walls and artworks, including four long hanging tapestry or textile pieces. 2025 Miles Franklin Award, Siang Lu. Arts prize winners, recipients, shortlists.
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Top arts prize winners, shortlists and finalists: 22 to 28 July 2025

Winners of LGBTQIA+ choir competition, 2025 Pinnacle Awards, plus arts grant recipients sharing $15 million and more.

A comfortably furnished hotel room decorated with art as part of SPRING1883.
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SPRING1883: three reasons why you should visit this hotel art fair

Returning to The Hotel Windsor from 13-16 August, SPRING1883 blends the Victorian aesthetic with contemporary flair.

Photo of Hiromi wearing a red dress sitting on a leather couch alongside four string quartets.
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OzAsia Festival 2025: what’s hot and what’s new

Opera comes back from the dead, The Female Pope, dance in public spaces, and the greatest debate on never moving…

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