The Collins Place Gallery Summer Salon is a new opportunity for artists working in the field of painting, printmaking and works on paper to exhibit in the heart of Melbourne, and go in the running to win prizes from a prize-pool equalling $10,000. Artists can enter up to two works, and there is no entry fee.
 
The Summer Salon promises to be a vibrant and colourful celebration of contemporary “art made now.” Prizes will be awarded by industry professionals, and the exhibition will be on display within the Collins Place thriving retail precinct, that attracts national and international visitors to the gallery.

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2018 October Open Art Competition includes $3000 Mayor’s Acquisitive Art Prize and children’s “Australian Poetry Theme Art Competition”. The acquisitive prize will be judged from all entries in all open sections. Over $8,000 in prize money.

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Harold Richardson was the first gallery director at the RQAS and a long-standing president. His wife Agnes was also an integral part of the society as an artist and in supporting the RQAS to grow and develop. This prize is awarded in their memory and made possible by an endowment of funds from their estate. The Harold and Agnes Richardson Drawing Prize is an open competition calling for artists to demonstrate their drawing skills. There is over $2000 in prizes for this prestigious competition.

Open to: All Queensland Artists

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Submissions are invited from all artists. Any two-dimensional work including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, digital art and mixed media is eligible. Applications open 15th August and close 12th September. The exhibition will be held in stunning Kangaroo Valley from 28th September – 1st October. All accepted work will be for sale at the exhibition and on-line for an additional month. $7000 in prizes will be awarded, including the inaugural Kangaroo Valley Art Prize of $5000. The Exhibition will be curated by Allan Baptist, well-known artist, educator and curator; and judged by Felicity Fenner, a leading international contemporary art judge, and Therese Kenyon, noted Sydney artist, educator and writer.

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The A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize is awarded biennially to Australian artists who have demonstrated talent and achievement in traditional styles. This includes realist, figurative and representational styles. The Art Prize is intended to encourage, support and advance classical training of emerging artists (in their early to mid-career) at any stage of life, who are pursuing the study and practice of traditional art and who desire to study the works of old masters.

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The North Sydney Art Prize is a major biennial arts event showcasing some of the best in contemporary art by artists across Australia.

The indoor and outdoor works will be selected for exhibition 2-17 March 2019 at the iconic Coal Loader in Waverton. Selected works will be exhibited in the Caretakers Cottage, Artist Studio, Workshop, Mess Hall, Platform, Tunnels 1 & 2, newly refurbished Chambers, and throughout the Coal Loader site and surrounding parklands. This unique site enables broad participation and accommodates the inclusion of all mediums.

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The Montalto Sculpture Prize is an annual $40,000 acquisitive prize (from 2019) open to artists working in any medium. Entries for the following year open at the beginning of September and close at the end of October. The judging panel selects a shortlist of finalists in early November.

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