March

 

A Brush with Verse, The 2010 Tenterfield Art Prize – entries close 10th March 2010

This art prize is for an artwork of any medium based on some lines of poetry or song. There is also a poetry competition. Total prize pool is $4000, and includes a $1,500 Shire Acquisition award. The show is open from the 25th March to 25th April at the Forest to Furniture Gallery, Tenterfield.

For all the details and an entry form please visit www.tenterfield.nsw.gov.au/community/16665.html or call 6736 1305. 
 
 

ACP, Subculture Slide Night – entries close 11th March 2010

Australian Centre of Photography Slide Night explores the theme of Subcultures. From warehouse parties to rubber fetishists, they want to see what goes on in your dark alleyways. Whether you are involved in a subculture or documenting one from the periphery, you are invited to submit your work for consideration.

For all the details please visit www.acp.org.au/submissions
 

Head on Portrait Prize – entries close 14th March 2010

Head On Portrait Prize, Australia’s most prestigious photographic portrait competition. Head On showcases work by established and emerging photographers, and represents a vibrant, diverse cross-section of new and traditional photographic practices. The total value of prizes is more than $45,000. Prizes are awarded to three photographers for the best Australian contemporary photographic portrait. Two further prizes are awarded for ‘The Critic’s Award’ and for ‘People’s Choice’. Head On Photo Festival takes place in Sydney from 29 April - 5 June 2010.

For all the details please visit www.headon.com.au/content/head-portrait-prize
 

Bird in the Hand Design Challenge – entries close 15th March 2010

Bird in the Hand are hosting a design challenge for Hunter/Newcastle residents aged 25 or under. The design challenge for 2010 will be themed ‘Bird in the Hand’ and will see emerging designers and artists creating an image that will be screenprinted onto t-shirts, tote bags and postcards.

For all the details please visit zineshop.com.au/2010/02/03/bird-in-the-hand-design-challenge-2/

Inaugural Australian Bonafide History Awards 2010 – nominations close 16th March 2010

The Hunter Heritage Network is pleased to announce and support the award. The aim of the which is to celebrate outstanding scholarship and service to Australian history and heritage in the Hunter Region, and at the same time inspire younger people to get involved in historical research and documentation of local heritage.

Award Categories are:

Perpetual Bona - Outstanding achievement in the service of history and heritage
Golden Bona - Best Adaptive Heritage Reuse for a building
Academic Bona - Best academic history based upon a local historical theme
Deadly Bona - Best Indigenous History Monograph, article or digital work
Commemorative Bona - Best Commemorative History, event or on site interpretation
Family Bona - Best Family History Monograph
Studious Bona - Best Student Paper or article
Amateur Bona - Best history by an amateur historian
Literary Bona - Best fictional tale or dramatic production based on a local historical theme
No Bona - For the most inappropriate development upon a heritage place

For all the details and how to nominate please visit hunterheritagenetwork.org:80/




 

Underbelly Arts 2010 – submissions close 19th March 2010

Application details for Underbelly Arts 2010 are now online. Underbelly Arts is a curated event, dedicated to supporting emerging and experimental artists and collectives to develop and present innovative new works to a broad public. It will take place in July 2010.

For all the details please visit www.underbelly.com.au/

Regional Arts Australia, Volunteer Awards - nominations close 26th March 2010

These awards are to recognise, reward, and encourage regionally-based artists and cultural volunteers who make a substantial contribution to the arts in regional communities in Australia. The award categories are:

Sustained Contribution  - To recognise and reward a regionally based arts volunteer who has made a signfiicant contribution to the arts in regional Australia over a period of five years or more.

Outstanding Contribution  - To recognise and reward a regionally based arts volunteer who has made an outstanding contribution to an arts project, event, organisation or community in regional Australia. Young people are particularly encouraged to nominate.

Nominations open 19th February. For all the details please visit www.regionalarts.com.au:80/raa1/volunteer-awards-.asp

Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award - expressions of interest close 29th March 2010

The Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award seeks to encourage contemporary design and challenge conventional notions of lace and its application in the areas of fashion, the built environment and digital multimedia. The Award defines lace as an openwork structure whose pattern of spaces is as important as the solid areas. Approximately 30 works will be selected for consideration for exhibition in July 2011. The selected entrants will have time to develop their proposed work from May until November 2010. Prize money winners will be announced at the opening of the exhibition in July 2011. Total prize pool is $40,000

For all the details and to apply online, please visit www.powerhousemuseum.com/lace/

 
 

Sculpture at Sawmillers Exhibition – entries close 30th March 2010

Sculptors are invited to participate in a non-acquisitive exhibition to run over one weekend in the spring of 2010 and held at the harbourside park, Sawmillers Reserve, in McMahons Point, Sydney. The exhibits will be selected by a small panel which include: Sculptor Michael Snape, Gallery Director Jane Watters and Curator Nick Vickers. The Exhibition is being co-ordinated by Elsa Atkin, former CEO of the National Trust Australia.

A Sculpture Prize of $10,000 will be awarded and a work may be chosen to be installed in a public space in McMahons Point.

For all the details please visit sculptureatsawmillers.squarespace.com/get-involved2/

 

Australian Refugee Film Festival - applications close 31st March 2010

The Australian Refugee Film Festival is now calling for films for the 4th Annual Film Festival, which will screen during Refugee Week 2010 between the 20th and 26th June. The main screenings will take place in Sydney with 3 screenings planned at the moment, the festival will also be held in each capital city around Australia. Films need to be 10 minutes or less, and need to focus on the refugee experience either in the Australian or Global context.

For more details please email films@australianrefugeefilmfestival.org.au

Tom Howard Short Story, Essay and Prose Contest – entries close 31st March 2010

Each year, John Howard Reid and Tom Howard Books sponsor three Writing Contests, one for prose and two for poetry. These Contests are open to all writers worldwide, although please note that all entries must be written in English.

For all the details please visit shortstorycontest.0catch.com/

 
 

Arts North West Logo Design Competition – entries close 31st March 2010

Arts North West are inviting submissions to revamp the current Arts North West logo or to design a new logo for the organisation. The competition is open to individuals or organisations and the winning entry will be eligible for a $500 prize. Designs are to be submitted electronically or by hard copy to the Arts North West office. For current logo specifications and further information please contact the Arts North West office@artsnw.com.au

Critical Animals call for proposals for the 2010 festival – entries close 31st March 2010

Critical Animals is the creative research arm of This is Not Art, held each October in Newcastle, NSW. CA welcomes proposals for papers, panels, presentations, performances, exhibits, installations and happenings. In particular they we look for artists that engage with creative research, challenge their medium or reflect upon their practice.

For all the details please visit criticalanimals.org:80/2010/02/12/call-for-proposals-2010/
 

April

2nd Annual Lithgow Prize for Photography – entries close 9th April 2010

Ironfest Lithgow Prize for Photography will be exhibited at Lithgow Showground Ballroom as part of Ironfest 2010 on the 24th, 25th, 26th April 2010 between 10am and 5pm and as an online Virtual Exhibition. There are 4 categories; “Living in Lithgow”, “Lithgow’s Natural Environment”, “Lithgow in a New Light”, and “Lithgow’s Industrial Past”, and an Junior and Open sections.

For all the details please visit www.ironfest.com.au/downloads/PhotographyEntryForm.pdf

National Youth Self-Portrait Prize 2010 – entries close 30th April 2010

The National Portrait Gallery invites all young Australians aged between 18 and 25 to enter this prize of $10,000 for the most outstanding self-portrait produced in the year preceding the prize. Entrants are invited to create a self-portrait in any of the following two dimensional media: drawing, printing, painting, traditional or digital still photography and screen-based media such a film, video or animation.

For all the details please visit www.portrait.gov.au/site/news.php
 

June 
 

The 7th annual Margaret Reid Poetry Prize for Traditional Verse - entries close 30th June 2010

Total prize pool of $5,550. For all the details please visit www.margaretreid.exactpages.com/

“Page Turner” Short Story Competition - entries close 30th June 2010

Turning the Pages, in conjunction with Upper Hunter Waterkeepers Alliance is pleased to announce this inaugural competition which is open to residents of the Hunter Rivers Catchment Area.

The them is WATER, and Fiction and Non-Fiction submissions are welcome and will be judged together by Hunter Valley based professional writers, Patrice Newell and Philip Adams.

Word Length
Under 21 years – up to 1000 words, prize worth $750.00
Over 21 years – up to 2000 words, prize worth $1000.00

For all the details please visit www.turningthepages.com.au/page%20turner/page%20turner.html
 

July 

Xstrata Percival Portrait Award – applications close 23rd July 2010

This award is open to artists throughout Australia, and the main prize is $20,000. acquisitive.The portrait is to be of a ‘real’ person, and there is the expectation that the subject of the work has sat for the artist at least once. The portrait can be in oil, acrylic, watercolour, pastels, charcoal, ink and/or mixed media. In order to enter you must indicate some link with Townsville. The link can be the artist, the sitter, some item in the work, etc. Entries will be exhibited at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Townsville from 3 September to 28 November 2010.

For all the details please visit www.townsville.qld.gov.au/recreation/gallery/perctucker/percival
 

1st Tamworth Textile Triennial – expressions of interest close 30th July 2010

The Tamworth Textile Triennial will be held at the Tamworth Regional Gallery in September 2011. It will provide a forum to explore current issues and trends in textile practice in Australia. Expressions of interest are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, age groups, emerging artists and established practitioners.

For all the details please visit www.tamworthregionalgallery.com.au/biennial.php
 

The Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010 – entries close 31st of July 2010

CIWEM (The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management) runs the Environmental Photographer of the Year, which is one of the fastest growing photographic competitions in the world.

It is open to all professional and amateur international photographers of any ages and encourages entries that are contemporary, creative, experimental, resonant, original and beautiful.

The 2010 categories are:
 

• Mott MacDonald's Changing Climates
• The Natural World
• Quality of Life
• Innovation in the Environment (New)
• The Underwater World (New)
• A View From the Western World (New)
• CIWEM’s Young Environmental Photographer of the Year (Under 16 & Under 21)
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Winners receive cash prizes, and all winning and highly commended entries are displayed in the international Environmental Photographer of the Year exhibitions. For all the details please visit www.ciwem.org/arts/photographer/epoty_competition_2010.asp