Opportunities and awards

Entries open for digital literary award, plus winners of Art Handlers' Awards at the National Portrait Gallery and Creative Australia Partnership Awards recipients announced.
Darling Portrait Prize 2024 Art Handlers' Award winner, Nena Salobir, 'Self Portrait on Washcloth', 2024. Image: Supplied. The residue of makeup such as mascara and lipstick made an imprint on a white washcloth.

Sculptures in the Garden 2024 (NSW)

The regional outdoor sculpture exhibition and prize, Sculptures in the Garden (SIG), is calling for submissions nationwide. The 2024 event will run from 12-27 October with a major acquisitive $30,000 SIG and Mid-Western Regional Council prize. Also on offer is the $10,000 Friends of SIG Prize and Fernside Pastoral Company Prize. The Buchanan Mudgee Hospital Prize sculpture winner will receive $5000, and the acquisition will be displayed as part of the Mudgee Hospital public art collection.
Submissions close 9 August; learn more and submit.

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Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. 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 and was most recently engaged in consultation for the Emerging Writers’ Festival and ArtsGen. Instagram @lleizy_