Celina Lei

Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_

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A collage of APRA Professional Development Awards finalists, featuring cropped headshots. L to R: BARKAA (an Australian First Nations woman with dark skin, a high tight pony tail and a bold makeup look), Becca Hatch (a woman with light tan skin and curly brown hair, resting her head on her hand), Harvey Sutherland (a man with pale skin, blue eyes and brown short ahir, wearing a white top looking to the side), Gabriel Strum (a man with pale skin, wearing a cap and round glasses, smiling at the camera), Charlie Collins (a black and white photo of a woman with dark skin and dark hair, her hands resting face up and sitting in a cross legged position.
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Opportunities and awards

$130,000 portrait prize open for entries, plus winners of the Sydney Theatre Awards, finalists of the Novel Prize, and more!

Competitions. A digitally rendered 3D competition showing surreal objects that appear to be a tabletop setting.
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Prizes and competitions to enter in 2025

A go-to list of prizes and competitions across the visual arts, performing arts and writing, periodically updated.

A black and white photo of Christian, a middle-aged Caucasian man with shortly cropped hair and trimmed beard, looking to the upper right hand side. It’s digitally rendered with a gradient blue purple background and the text ‘So you want my arts job?’
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So you want my arts job: Mount Maker

Christian Bishop explains how mount making is not just about functionality, but crafting solutions that elevate a viewer’s experience.

Model and crew backstage for the Melbourne Fashion Festival. A tall female model with pale skin and red lips is wearing a red satin dress with a large floral feature over her chest, while the crew adjusts something around her ear.
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Fashion, craft and design calendar 2025

What’s on in fashion, craft and design this year, including exhibitions, fashion festivals, design weeks and makers' markets.

Second Echo Ensemble artists Bella Young, William Webster and Creative Director Kelly Drummond Cawthon. Young and Cawthon, two Caucasian woman, surround Webster, a man with his arms outstretched. Storytelling.
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20 years of storytelling – a bit differently

Tasmania’s Second Echo Ensemble celebrates its milestone, where a 20-year legacy of ‘every story counts’ is supported with creativity and…

Bronze canoe stolen as part of public artwork, shown prior to its theft. A canoe made out of bronze laying on the ground in an outdoor setting next to some rocks.
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Aboriginal bronze sculpture cut through and stolen

"They will get a rude shock when they realise it can't be sold as copper," says artist Julie Squires.

A hand poking out from the right hand side holding a fork, about to lift up a sunny side egg with a sparkly gold yolk. There are three rows of sunny side eggs lined up against a yellow background.
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Opportunities and awards

International travel fund open for applications, plus winners of Music Australia's Core Contribution Fund and AWGIE nominations, and more!

Artist impression of Fenix, a new gallery and migration museum in Rotterdam. A shiny steel spiral architecture beside a riverside.
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19 new galleries, museums, theatres and cultural destinations to visit in 2025

From long-awaited reopenings in Australia to the first contemporary art museum in Central Asia, here are the top places to…

'The Lewis Trilogy' by Griffin Theatre Company, nominated for Best Mainstage Production at the 2024 Sydney Theatre Awards. Six performers dressed in colourful, elaborate stage costumes, holding hands that are raised in the air as celebration.
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Opportunities and awards

Opportunities including emerging artist grants and regional arts fellowships, plus opera winners, literary longlists and more!

Left: Artist Anya Pesce standing next to her work as part of ‘Fold Fetish’ exhibition at M Contemporary. Featuring a large deep blue round relief with a folded centre, made out of plastic. Right: Works by Jean Paul Mangin currently listed on Studio Gallery’s website. Around a dozen pieces of what appears to be folded plastic on a white background webpage.
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Artist in distress as her former gallery sells similar artworks, attributed to another

Anya Pesce believes her relief sculptures have potentially been copied by a made-up artist after severing ties with Studio Gallery.

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