Category Archives: Prizes

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2024 – ENTRIES CLOSE 8 AUGUST

AAANZ Art Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) recognise the best in arts writing and research across Australia and New Zealand. AWAPAs Entry Form ENTRIES for the 2025 AWAPAs are NOW OPEN The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. […]

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AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2024 – ENTRIES CLOSE 8 AUGUST

AAANZ Art Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) recognise the best in arts writing and research across Australia and New Zealand. AWAPAs Entry Form ENTRIES for the 2025 AWAPAs are NOW OPEN The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. […]

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AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2024 – ENTRIES CLOSE 8 AUGUST

AAANZ Art Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) recognise the best in arts writing and research across Australia and New Zealand. AWAPAs Entry Form ENTRIES for the 2025 AWAPAs are NOW OPEN The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. […]

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Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize

About the Prize The 2025 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize is run by the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre (NSW). This opportunity is significant for artists at all stages of their practice, with the winning work awarded $30,000 and 35 finalists selected for exhibition at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre. The prize is for practitioners across Australia. Age and nationality are unrestricted; entrants must have been living and practicing in Australia for at least six months prior to submitting their work. Means of work presentation are unrestricted. Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize The Australian Photographic Society’s Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize is a national […]

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Grants and Awards │ Australian Academy of the Humanities │ Deadline Friday 28 March 2025

Australian Academy of the Humanities’ have just opened applications for the 2025 Grants and Awards Program for EMCRs working across the humanities. The closing date is Friday 28 March 2025. This year, the Academy will accept nominations for the: Max Crawford Medal Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the Humanities, the Max Crawford Medal recognises an early-career scholar in the humanities whose publications contribute towards an understanding of their discipline. This award relies on nominations, and we encourage all to nominate an ECMR doing exciting work in their field. John Mulvaney Fellowship Awarded to an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander […]

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Congratulations to the winner and shortlisted entries for the 2024 AAANZ PhD Prize: Practice-Led

The AAANZ PhD prize is judged on the merits of the final submitted thesis or exegesis and documentation of a recently graduated PhD student The prize alternates yearly between research-based and practice-led. In 2024 the PhD Prize was open to practice-led PhD entries, of which, three were shortlisted. WINNER $1000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis Yvette Hamilton,  ‘Photography at the Event Horizon: The Appearance and Disappearance of a Medium’, (University of Sydney) Abstract On April 10th, 2019, scientists unveiled the world’s first ever photograph of a black hole, declaring, “we have seen what we thought was unseeable.”* The photograph of […]

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WINNERS│HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE 2024 AWAPAS

Congratulations to the winners and highly commended of the AWAPAs for 2024 BEST BOOK The AAANZ Best Book prize is a premier award of the association which sets the highest criteria in our discipline: significant and original art historical scholarship and a benchmark in academic publishing. With this in mind, the judges looked for new historical research that positioned its argument within current art historical scholarship. After careful consideration, the judges recommend that the prize not be awarded this year. Judges: Associate Professor Catherine de Lorenzo and Professor Ian McLean BEST ANTHOLOGY Sponsored by the Australian Institute of Art History, University of Melbourne The […]

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AAANZ PHD PRIZE: PRACTICE-LED IS NOW OPEN FOR 2024 | DEADLINE THIS COMING FRIDAY 23 AUGUST

AAANZ is pleased to offer an opportunity for recently graduated practice-led PhD students to enter the 2024 AAANZ PhD Prize. The $1,000 prize is supported by Taylor and Francis. In 2023 the annual PhD Prize received feedback from the judges and will be split between research-based PhDs and practice-led PhDs, alternating each year, with the eligible application period being extended to the previous two years. The 2024 AAANZ PhD Prize will be practice-led but the eligible period will remain 12 months for this year only (due to practice-led eligibility in the 2023 AAANZ PhD Prize). In 2023 there were twelve entries, of which, four were […]

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AAANZ PHD PRIZE: PRACTICE-LED IS NOW OPEN FOR 2024 | DEADLINE FRIDAY 23 AUGUST

AAANZ is pleased to offer an opportunity for recently graduated practice-led PhD students to enter the 2024 AAANZ PhD Prize. The $1,000 prize is supported by Taylor and Francis. In 2023 the annual PhD Prize received feedback from the judges and will be split between research-based PhDs and practice-led PhDs, alternating each year, with the eligible application period being extended to the previous two years. The 2024 AAANZ PhD Prize will be practice-led but the eligible period will remain 12 months for this year only (due to practice-led eligibility in the 2023 AAANZ PhD Prize). In 2023 there were twelve entries, of which, four were […]

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AAANZ PHD PRIZE: PRACTICE-LED IS NOW OPEN FOR 2024 | DEADLINE FRIDAY 23 AUGUST

AAANZ is pleased to offer an opportunity for recently graduated practice-led PhD students to enter the 2024 AAANZ PhD Prize. The $1,000 prize is supported by Taylor and Francis. In 2023 the annual PhD Prize received feedback from the judges and will be split between research-based PhDs and practice-led PhDs, alternating each year, with the eligible application period being extended to the previous two years. The 2024 AAANZ PhD Prize will be practice-led but the eligible period will remain 12 months for this year only (due to practice-led eligibility in the 2023 AAANZ PhD Prize). In 2023 there were twelve entries, of which, four were […]

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