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An art prize that encourages conversations about life and death

Not just an art competition – a movement towards a more compassionate Australia.

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Archibald four-time finalist broke down in tears at winner announcement

“You work your whole career imagining this might happen one day,” says Julie Fragar, winner of the Archibald Prize 2025.

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Artist-First art prize offers more support and fewer restrictions

The Basil Sellers Art Prize is pioneering cultural change in art prize practice with its Artist-First approach.

Painting of Julian Assange looking through a slit, like Ned Kelly, and swathed in blue. His head is the balloon of a hot-air balloon with a basket beneath and the US flag across the bottom.
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Archibald, Sulman and Wynne finalists revealed, along with Packing Room Prize

The finalists for the three high-profile art prizes have now been announced, with the winners due to be revealed next…

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6 tips for entering an art prize

Many say art prizes are as fraught as entering the lottery, but you can hedge your bets. Here’s how.

Amelia Lynch, ‘Marramarra’, 2023, glazed ceramic (Finalist 2023). Image is a multicoloured curiously shaped piece of small sculpture. Climate Change, Trent Jansen
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From the symbolic to the practical: ways to consider climate change

With entries open in March, the Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize 2024 seeks works that reflect a sustainability…

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Recent art prize winners bucking the norms

Artists aren’t generally known for their love of rules and convention, but some recent art prize winners have been inspiring…

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The slippery zone of art prize categories

‘How do you make sense of the Archibald?’, is a question I ask myself every year, and what are the…

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Who are the 2023 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman winners?

Celebrating portraiture as an expanded field of painting in our times, Julia Gutman wins the Archibald with a textiles work.

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An environmental art prize that encourages hope in the wasteland

The Hornsby Shire Art Prize, ‘Remagine’ allows artists to envisage and champion new ways of sustainable living.

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