Entries Are Now Open for the Scone Art Prize 2022
Entries are now open for the 57th Scone Art Prize. Wide range of categories. Total prize pool is $10,000. Click to download an entry form Entries close on 12 August 2022.
Create NSW Seeks Artform Advisory Members
Create NSW is calling for applications across NSW to its 2022/23 Artform Advisory Boards. Expressions of interest are encouraged from members of small and medium-sized organisations and major arts companies, and individual practitioners and artists across all artforms, including professional artists, producers, business managers and independent company leaders. Create NSW Interim Chief Executive Annette Pitman…
Stay Safe People
Here is a message from the Mayor of the Singleton Council. “As extreme weather and flooding again affects our local government area and with evacuation orders in place, I encourage everyone to follow the directions of the SES and emergency services and to keep safe during this time. As usual, we are fortunate to have…
Applications are now open for Regional Arts Fund (RAF)
Applications for Regional Arts Fund (RAF) Project Grants are officially open. The Project Grants will fund high-quality arts projects benefiting regional or remote artists, arts workers, audiences and communities. The focus of the project could include any area of creative practice, multiple art forms or cross-disciplinary practice. There have been some changes to this…
Arts Upper Hunter announces eight local organisations to share in $23,385 to fund art projects.
Arts Upper Hunter is pleased to announce that it will fund eight community organisations through its Country Arts Support Program (CASP) grants. CASP has long been a vital support for regional arts, enabling community groups to hold small bespoke workshops, or create artworks, or have performances or exhibitions. This year, in addition to the $17,000…
Call for Patches Extended to 15 July for the Sunflower Quilt For Ukraine Project
As reported in the June ArtSparks, Scone artist Janno McLaughlin has set herself the task of sewing/assembling a quilt as big as a house to deliver to the Ukrainian embassy in London then on to Ukraine to be wrapped Christo-like around significant landmarks. Janno is asking for people all over Australia (and the world) to get…
Visual Arts Sector Survey RMIT and Uni Melb
Australian artists and arts workers are invited to participate in a research project about the visual arts sector in Australia. Click to commence survey. Visual Arts Work aims to strengthen the sustainability of the Australian visual art industry. We know incomes are low for artists and arts workers and this research seeks to develop a…
Paterson Allyn Williams Science & Ideas Hub’s Art + Science in July School Holidays
Paterson Allyn Williams Science & Ideas Hub’s presents 3 Art + Science in July School Holidays. Soundscapes: Record your world Saturday 2 July 10am to 2pm Record the sounds of this place – in the ground, under the water or inside a tree. Our visiting sound artist is bringing some very special microphones to use.…
Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize
The Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize is an annual event providing an avenue for conceptual photographic artists to express their creativity in a serious exhibition. Winner announced: 9 July 2022. Exhibition: 11 July to 27 August 2022 Venue: Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Bridge St, Muswellbrook. For details on the Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize visit website For…
Merriwa Gallery Kicks Off With Two Exhibitions
The new Merriwa Gallery has excitedly had its first two exhibitions. Both photographic, the first planned over the Festival of the Fleeces weekend, and the second set up for the following week. The FOTF event was a co – exhibition featuring the works of Ellie Matthews’,‘for the love of rust’, and Roger Skinner’s ‘Landscapes et.al’.…