The ArtGemini Prize is a celebration to promote international contemporary art for emerging and established artists around the world.

The Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie is thrilled to announce the Lake Art Prize, a new biennial National Acquisitive Prize for Contemporary Australian Art – valued at $25,000.

Australian artists, aged 18 years and over, are invited to submit works which reflect on the theme ‘Where there is Water’.

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The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an independent, international online art competition with a prize pool of over $15,000 USD. It will accept all 2D mediums from drawing to photography. There is no set theme for the competition, simply submit the best in your portfolio. The goal is to give artists a platform for their work, and exposure for emerging artists everywhere.

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These Awards rest on an excellence framework, and the criteria reflects the excellence awards foundation, with questions about your objective in deciding to have the artwork commissioned, plus some specific questions just for 2020 to ensure the Awards are fair to all organisations across Australia, no matter where you are located or how COVID-19 has impacted you.. 

These awards do not focus on the quality of the artwork. We’ll leave that to art critics! Judges want to know how you are using public art to enhance visitor appeal and bolster community pride.

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The Macquarie Group Collection has been supporting emerging Australian artists for more than thirty years. The Collection’s annual Emerging Artist Prize and exhibition is usually held in Sydney, offering support to a new generation of Australian visual artists. Artists are invited to enter an original work/s that reflect the Macquarie Group Collection theme, The Land and Its Psyche.

Due to COVID-19, the 2020 Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize and Exhibition will be held virtually. In order to support more emerging artists during these challenging times, up to eight artists will be selected for the virtual exhibition. Each of these artists will be awarded $A5000 prize money and a $A1000 art transport voucher from International Art Services. The successful artists will be announced at a virtual event on Wednesday 25 November 2020.

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Arte Laguna Prize, the world’s most influential competition for emerging artists and designers, showcases and promotes creative talents. With fourteen years of history the Arte Laguna Prize gives the opportunity to join the huge network of collaborations worldwide, exhibit in the breathtaking location of the Arsenale of Venice on March 2021 (with the finalist artists of the 14th edition), win cash prizes and much more.

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Nillumbik Shire Council presents the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, a biennial acquisitive art prize open to emerging and established artists working in any medium across Australia. Presented in association with Montsalvat.

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The prestigious Red Ochre Award was established by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board in 1993 to pay tribute to a senior Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person for their outstanding lifetime achievement in the arts and their contribution to the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, both nationally and internationally.

Key dates

Amount: $50,000 (each)

Nominations close: 7 December 2020

Nominations close at 3pm AEDT on the closing date.

Notifications: applicants will be notified by 31 March 2021

Award Categories:

• The Red Ochre Award (Lifetime achievement): Female Recipient
• The Red Ochre Award (Lifetime achievement): Male Recipient.

Please note: To nominate you must be registered in the Australia Council for the Arts Application Management System a minimum of two business days prior to the closing date.

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Supported by the John Villiers Trust. 

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A $100,000 art prize supporting contemporary Australian artists under 40.

Celebrating the legacy of John Glover, The John Glover Art Prize (Glover Prize) has become one of Australia’s most significant awards for landscape painting, open to artists from anywhere in the world.

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The Footscray Art Prize is a biennial non-acquisitive visual art prize for contemporary artworks across multiple platforms and disciplines.

It is open for entries nationally and does not have a theme.

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