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Career Advice

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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Opinions & Analysis

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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Career Advice

The problem with art prize communication

Communication with those brave enough to put themselves forward for awards, prizes and grants should be respectful

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Changing Identities: A region moving from coal to art

After a year in COVID hiatus, the Collie Art Prize once again invites submissions to one of the Australia’s richest…

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A national art prize embracing diversity and inclusion

The Wyndham Art Prize will soon be open for entries from artists of all backgrounds and practices.