Mandorla Art Award

Mandorla Art Award 2024

Open to artists working in any medium. Mandorla is a contemporary fine art award and Australia’s most significant thematic Christian art prize.

Awards & Prizes

Opportunity Details

Closing Date

Mar 13, 2024

Location

Australia

Artform

Visual Arts

  • $30,000 Acquisitive prize
  • Over $50,000 total prize pool
  • New Artist Residency Prize

Open to visual artists working in any medium, Mandorla is a contemporary fine art award and Australia’s most significant thematic Christian art prize.

Visit our website for information and the online entry form: www.mandorlaart.com

2024 Theme: Refocus: Let all that you do be done in love (1 Cor. 16:14)

Finalists exhibited at Holmes à Court Gallery in West Perth
Exhibition opens 24 May
Entries close 13 March 2024

The New Norcia Artist Residency Prize is a major new award category: this is a unique opportunity for an artist to live and create artwork in Australia’s only monastic town. In partnership with the New Norcia Benedictine Monastery, this one-month residency provides a studio, accommodation, meals and a $10,000 artist fee.

2024 Judges:

  • Hannah Mathews – Director of Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA
  • Richard Lewer – Artist, Vic
  • Dr Raewynne Whiteley – Theologian, WA

Mandorla Art Award is proudly sponsored by St John of God Health Care.