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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 4 to 10 August 2025
Now open: 2026 Stella Prize, Emerging Artist Award, Songwriting Competition, Peter Porter Poetry Prize and more grants and opportunities.

Arts prize winners and finalists: 29 July to 4 August 2025
William Barton portrait awarded Archibald People's Choice, memoir of war wins National Biography Award. This week's prize winners and finalists.

Free exhibitions in South Australia August 2025
Your guide to free exhibitions in SA this August, including SALA, Mark Valenzuela at ACE, Ramsay Art Prize and more.

Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 28 July to 3 August 2025
ArtsPay releases No Fuss funding, 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards now open, callout for new romance anthology, New York residency…

Top arts prize winners, shortlists and finalists: 22 to 28 July 2025
Winners of LGBTQIA+ choir competition, 2025 Pinnacle Awards, plus arts grant recipients sharing $15 million and more.

SPRING1883: three reasons why you should visit this hotel art fair
Returning to The Hotel Windsor from 13-16 August, SPRING1883 blends the Victorian aesthetic with contemporary flair.

OzAsia Festival 2025: what’s hot and what’s new
Opera comes back from the dead, The Female Pope, dance in public spaces, and the greatest debate on never moving…

Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 22 to 28 July 2025
Adelaide Fringe poster competition returns, Creative WA Fellowships for young talent plus Lester Prize shortlist and more opportunities.

Ken Done, 85, takes on surfers’ spirit at HOTA, Gold Coast
Gold Coast’s HOTA will soon welcome the joyous paintings of Ken Done in Ken Done: No Rules.

SOFT CENTRE 2025 to take over Sydney with experimental art and electronic music
Expect international electronic sensations, home-grown immersive art pioneers and critical conversations at SOFT CENTRE.