Category Archives: Prizes

Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize

March 17, 2025Call for Artists, Prizes

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 […]

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

February 17, 2025Grants, Prizes, Research Fellowship

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 […]

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

December 16, 2024News, Prizes

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 […]

WINNERS│HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE 2024 AWAPAS

December 9, 2024AWAPA, Prizes

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 […]

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

August 19, 2024Prizes

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 […]

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

August 5, 2024Prizes

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

July 29, 2024Prizes

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

July 22, 2024Prizes

PRIZE │ THE EVAN WEBB AWARD FOR LEN LYE RESEARCH │ DEADLINE AUGUST

July 15, 2024Prizes

This award, offered by the Len Lye Foundation, commemorates the artist Evan Webb (1952-2023) who was a key figure in the research and restoration of the work of Len Lye. The award will be open to any researcher. The sum of $1500 will be given annually to the best original contribution to Lye scholarship from at least one of the following categories: An unpublished research essay on some aspect of Len Lye’s sculpture, film-making, or work in other genres, or his ideas, or his aesthetics; An unpublished research essay which makes an original contribution to knowledge of Lye’s life and […]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM │DEADLINE FRIDAY 30 AUGUST

July 15, 2024Opportunity, Prizes, Publication

AAANZ is calling for proposals for book publications from recently submitted doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand is calling for proposals for book publications from recently completed doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. This initiative has been developed by AAANZ in association with publishing house Taylor & Francis, with the intention of publishing a series of five monographs. The series has been divided into two rounds, with proposals for the first two monographs selected during the […]