Category Archives: Prizes

ENTRIES for the 2026 AWAPAs are NOW OPEN

June 22, 2026AWAPA, Award, Prizes

Recognising the best in art writing and research across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand ENTRIES for the 2026 AWAPAs are NOW OPEN Highlighting the vitality of art writing and publishing in the region, the AWAPAs acknowledge the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the bredth of knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design, celebrating achievements writers make to the field through: Originality and rigour of scholarship Contribution to knowledge in the area and impact on scholarly debate in the field Significance of the topic to the […]

Submissions open │ Memorial to the Sixth Extinction

June 15, 2026Call for Creatives, Prizes

Memorial to the Sixth Extinction – An Open International Ideas Competition is open for submissions. Full details can be found at this link Sixth Extinction document FINAL TCL, through the Kevin Taylor Legacy, is proud to be collaborating with the Australian Urban Design Research Centre and The University of Western Australia’s School of Design on the Memorial to the Sixth Extinction. This competition was conceived by and is held in memory of Richard J. Weller (1963– 2025), designer, author, and emeritus Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Richard was also a professor […]

ENTRIES for the 2026 AWAPAs are NOW OPEN

June 11, 2026AWAPA, Award, Prizes

Prize | Goulburn Art Award 2026 | Applications Open

April 27, 2026Award, Prizes

Applications for the Goulburn Art Award 2026 are open! The Goulburn Art Award 2026 is open to artists living within a 120km radius of Goulburn working in any medium, representing the talent and diversity of artists of our region. The Gallery encourages submissions from artists at all stages of their careers. There is a total prize pool of $15,000 on offer. We are delighted to announce that the guest judge of the Goulburn Art Award 2026 is Rachel Kent, CEO, Bundanon. Applications close 5pm Friday 1 May, 2026. The announcement and official exhibition opening event will be held at 6pm Friday 19 June 2026 at Goulburn […]

Prize | Michèle Whitecliffe Art Writing Prize – The Role of Art History | Entries open 6 April

April 1, 2026Prizes

Every year Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki runs the Michèle Whitecliffe Art Writing Prize. It seeks to foster debate and encourage participation in an evolving conversation about the visual arts. In 2026 the theme is The Role of Art History. Last year the New Zealand Government announced that from 2028 art history would no longer be taught as a dedicated subject at secondary schools. Art history’s removal from the New Zealand Curriculum follows the axing of the subject from the University of Otago in 2020 and reduced course offerings at other tertiary institutions. This year’s Michèle Whitecliffe Art Writing Prize […]

Congratulations to the winner and shortlisted entries for the 2025 AAANZ PhD Prize: Research-based

December 24, 2025News, 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 2025 the PhD Prize was open to research-based PhD entries, there were 26 entries of which, four were shortlisted. WINNER $1000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis Amelia Birch, ‘In a Paris studio: the transformative partnership of Agnes Goodsir and Rachel Dunn’, (University of Western Australia) Abstract At the start of the twentieth century there was a mass exodus of Australian female artists travelling abroad to further theirartistic […]

AAANZ PHD PRIZE: RESEARCH-BASED IS NOW OPEN FOR 2025 | DEADLINE 26 SEPTEMBER

September 22, 2025Prizes

AAANZ is pleased to offer an opportunity for recently graduated research-based PhD students to enter the 2025 AAANZ PhD Prize. The $1,000 prize is supported by Taylor and Francis. In 2023 the annual PhD Prize was reviewed by the AAANZ Prize Committee in consideration of feedback received from the judging panel. In 2024 the PhD Prize was 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 was practice-led but the eligible period remained 12 months for that year only (due to practice-led eligibility in […]