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List of Australian art awards

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This List of Australian art awards covers the main art awards given by organisations based in Australia. Most are for Australian art but some are open to artists from elsewhere.

Award Sponsor Notes
Archibald Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales First major prize for portraiture in Australian art
Australian Photographic Portrait Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales Discontinued in 2007
Bald Archy Prize Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga Parody of the Archibald Prize
Blake Prize Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre Focus on spiritual arts
Bowness Photography Prize Monash Gallery of Art
Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship Art Gallery of New South Wales Includes three-month residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris
the churchie emerging art prize Institute of Modern Art Since 1987; formerly at Griffith University Art Gallery (now Museum)
Clemenger Contemporary Art Award Art Gallery of New South Wales 1993-2009 (no longer awarded)
Cornell Prize Cornell family South Australia, from 1951 to 1965
Dobell Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales No longer awarded
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Doug Moran Annual Australian portrait prize
Fleurieu Art Prize South Australia wineries Named for the Fleurieu Peninsula
Fremantle Print Award Little Creatures Brewery
Gallipoli Art Prize[1] Gallipoli Memorial Club Acquisitive art prize commemorating the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War, awarded annually.
Glover Prize John Glover Society For paintings of the landscape of Tasmania
Gold Coast Art Prize Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award Helen Lempriere Bequest Defunct since 2009
Helena Rubinstein Portrait Prize Helena Rubinstein Foundation) no longer awarded
Helpmann Awards Live Performance Australia For live entertainment and performing arts
Impact Awards Performing Arts Connections Australia Presenter/venue & Producer Awards (Performing Arts)
John Fries Award Copyright Agency Emerging visual artists
Kennedy Prize[2] Kennedy Arts Foundation Annual Australian arts award of $25,000
Kilgour Prize[3] Newcastle Art Gallery[4] $50,000 figurative and portrait art competition
The Ledger Awards Named after pioneering Australian cartoonist Peter Ledger (1945–1994)
Mandorla Art Award New Norcia Monastery Museum and Art Gallery Christian art
John McCaughey Prize National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
1957–
Melrose Prize South Australian Society of Arts Prize for portraiture instituted in 1921
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Works on Paper Award Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Contemporary art made on, or with, paper
Mosman Art Prize Mosman Town Council
Muswellbrook Art Prize Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
National Capital Art Prize ACT Prizes in four categories: Open, First Nations, Landscape and Student[5]
National New Media Art Award Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
National Photographic Portrait Prize National Portrait Gallery (Canberra)
Portia Geach Memorial Award The Trust Company, Perpetual Prize for Australian female portraitists
Ramsay Art Prize Art Gallery of South Australia $100,000 prize for contemporary artists under 40 years old
Ranamok Glass Prize Andy Plummer and Maureen Cahill Defunct from 2015
Salon des Refusés (Archibald) S.H. Ervin Gallery Rejected submissions to the Archibald Prize
Sculpture by the Sea Sculpture by the Sea
Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards Sidney Myer Fund
Sir John Sulman Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales
Solar art prize Royal Society of the Arts, South Australia Climate change themes
South Australian Ruby Awards Government of South Australia Named for Dame Ruby Litchfield
Stanley Award Australian Cartoonists' Association Annual comics award
Stencil Art Prize Marrickville Council etc. Includes international stencil artists
Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize South Australian Museum For art with a science theme
Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales Landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Musa, Helen (17 April 2024). "Canberra artists top the Gallipoli Art Prize". Canberra CityNews. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  2. ^ Kennedy Prize
  3. ^ Kilgour Prize
  4. ^ "Home". nag.org.au.
  5. ^ Musa, Helen (3 August 2021). "Finalists announced in the 2021 National Capital Art Prize". Canberra CityNews. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
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