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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 18-24 August 2025

New nature writing prize, $10,000 for emerging singer-songwriters, mural commission, WA grant funding and more opportunities.

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10 upcoming photography festivals across Australia and Asia

Photography is trending globally – from collectors to content creators. We look at what’s hot, and where to see it.

man in white t-shirt holding open wallet with no money. Poverty line artists
Opinions & Analysis

‘I’m tired of barely being paid.’ Artists are living below the poverty line

Did artists feel the recent indexed wage increase? No. They largely remain on the poverty line. And this week’s speculated…

A group of Star Wars figures with one figure of a sad clown out of place. Productivity Commission AI
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Arts Law not shy in criticism of Productivity Commission report on AI

Favoring a lack of AI regulation over economic output, the Productivity Commission’s recommendations puts artists at risk.

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Creative Australia backs new creative health initiative

A new two-year creative health initiative from Creative Australia targets wellness and loneliness.

A figure with curly red hair and tattooed arm looking down. Opportunities and awards.
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 11-17 August 2025

New award opportunities, commission for Queensland playwrights and grants up to $80,000.

The 2025 Telstra Art Award winner, Gaypalani Waṉambi, 'Burwu, blossom', 2025, at the 2025 Telstra NATSIAA. The front of the artwork, showing the intricately etched and painted honey bees and stringybark blossoms are shown; the second part of the photograph shows the found road signs which comprise the canvas for the work.
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Gaypalani Waṉambi wins the Telstra Art Award at the 2025 Telstra NATSIAA

The Yirrkala artist won the $100,000 award for a monumental etched metal work, now showing at MAGNT in Darwin.

Tax reform for artists is needed. Image: Dillon Wanner on Unsplash.
Opinions & Analysis

You're killing me: tax reform for artists is needed now

An urgent call for tax reform, as studio artists and creatives miss out on annual wage index but still forced…

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.

Opportunities, grants & awards. Image: Marty O’Neill on Unsplash.
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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.

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