Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 22 to 28 July 2025

Adelaide Fringe poster competition returns, Creative WA Fellowships for young talent plus Lester Prize shortlist and more opportunities.
A mixed media collage of eight portraits.

2025 Kennedy and Nyland Prizes

Presented by the Kennedy Foundation, the Kennedy Prize offers a $25,000 award with the sole category of painting honouring the legacy of its founder, Robert Kennedy. The Nyland Prize for exceptional photography is a $5000 award. Finalists’ works will be shown at the Royal South Australian Society of Arts at the State Library of South Australia.
Entries for the Kennedy Prize close 1 August and for the Nyland Prize close 2 August; learn more and enter.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's 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_