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2024 Urbach recipient Ellen Lee, photographed inside a softly lit space where she is kneeling on the ground and working watery brown colours into a flat canvas.
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ACT Book of the Year nominations open, plus recipients of Playing Australia fund and finalists of 2025 Asia Pacific Arts…

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

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

2024 Queensland Regional Art Awards, Emerging Artist Award winner, Teddy Horton, for 'Stars Align'. A black and white image of a cowboy chasing a ufo.
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EOIs open for Melbourne Design Week and NT Performing Arts Development, plus winner of Emerging Playwright Commission, and more!

Art Music Fund 2025 open for applications. Image: Mindy Meng Wang and Monica Lim. Two woman with black hair and pale skin under a white veil against a black background.
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Quilters get ready for $37,000 prize, plus winners of Koorie Art Show 12, SA celebrates Ruby Awards and more!

The Australian Ballet, ‘The Nutcracker’, featuring Sara Andrlon, winner of the 2024 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award. A ballerina dressed in white on stage among a crowd of applauding performers.
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Public mural opportunity, plus nearly a million in cash support to creative projects and more!

Audio-visual artist Robin Fox announced as Melbourne Recital Centre's 2025 Artist-in-Residence. Image: 'Constellation', 2021. Photo: Supplied.
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Calling for wearable art entries, international residencies now open, plus winners of NT Performing Arts Awards and more!

Recipient of TCL Kevin Taylor Legacy program, Chris Bassi, 'Meeting the mangrove: self portrait'. An oil painting of a man dressed in black holding up his hand to a tree set against a yellow indoor backdrop.
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Music support for WA creatives, Elvis poetry competition, plus winners of Ensemble Theatre Award, and more!

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