Entries close: 3 April 2025 Are you an artist living with a disability? Do you like to paint, draw, take photos, sculpt, or create digital art? Uniting Local Area Coordination are running this competition in Hunter New England, Illawarra Shoalhaven, Nepean Blue Mountains, Northern Sydney, Southern NSW and Western Sydney. This year highly voted art…
Applications close: 6 April 2025 Small Grants aim to meet the short-term, collection-based requirements of community museums. There are no set categories for funding, and applications for a broad range of projects will be considered. Previous Small Grants have funded the purchase of computer cataloguing software, exhibition mannequins and display cases, oral history recording equipment…
Entries close: Sunday 6 April 2025 Staged annually on Sydney’s spectacular Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi is one of the city’s most popular events, with 500,000 visitors viewing over 100 sculptures by artists from around the world. All types, forms, and sizes of sculpture, in all materials, are eligible for…
Entries close: 12 October 2025 The theme for this year’s Blue Heeler Film Festival is “Nurture”. They are looking for films that explore the power of nurturing—whether it’s caring for the environment, relationships, ourselves or nurturing an idea. For all the details please visit https://filmfreeway.com/BlueHeelerFilmFestival
Applications for Round 2 of the 2024/25 Regional Arts Touring Fund close Monday 17 March 2025. World-class arts and cultural productions and programs keen to hit the road across NSW are invited to apply for the second round of Create NSW’s 2024/25 Regional Arts Touring funding program. Artists, creatives and producers, including individuals and organisations,…
Entries close Monday 16th June 2025. Over $20,000 in prize money across 12 categories across a range of mediums, subject, and even a section for youth and Singleton locals! Full entry information is available at our website https://www.singletonartprize.org/ Opening night is Friday 25th July 2025.
Entries close: Extended to 19 June 2025 Artists from across Australia to submit portraits of an Australian (or Australians) that they respect or admire, or a self-portrait. Total prize pool $130,000 worth of cash and prizes. For all the details please visit https://www.lesterprize.com/
Expression of Interest close: 20 March 2025 Salon is Arts on Tour’s key annual industry event that builds relationships between NSW and ACT artists, producers and presenters, creating opportunities for touring and partnerships. Salon is the only state-based arts market and networking event for theatrical work in NSW, playing a key role in facilitating touring.…
Entries close 22 March 2025 Hosted by the Dungog Arts Society. This year there will be both a portrait prize (the Dungog Archies and also part of the ‘Faces’ portrait component of the theme) and a landscape/places’ prize (the ‘Places’ part of the theme.) For more details please email the Dungog Arts Society admin@dungogarts.com.au
Applications close: 24 March 2025 The NIDA Future Centre has just launched the $50,000 Jim Sharman Future Award. The Award open to those aged 16–30 from Australia and the Asia-Pacific region – so if you have contacts in the Asia Pacific, that’d be particularly welcome. The Award is for a bold idea or project with…