Here are current employment opportunities, exhibition call outs, scholarships, grants and bursaries and art prizes.
Student Opportunities
Student Opportunities
Sip and Paint Bondi Art Instructor
Sip and Paint Bondi are looking for Art Instructors who are comfortable teaching adults and children how to paint, using step by step instructions.
Find out more and apply at hi@bondipaintclub.com
Down Under Space – Emerging artist and performance space
Down Under Room Info
Fremantle Arts Centre – Artist in Residence program
Applications open year round
Sculpture on the Farm
Expressions of interest now open
Volunteer
Carriageworks Summer 2020 Volunteer call out
During Summer 2020 Carriageworks will present four large-scale installations by leading Australian artists Rebecca Baumann, Daniel Boyd, Kate Mitchell and Reko Rennie. Each work is immersive, participatory and site-specific, engaging with the unique history and architecture of the precinct. Carriageworks is currently seeking volunteers from 8th January – 1st March 2020.
Applications close Friday 22 November 2019
Volunteer at NAS Gallery
Applications open all year round
Volunteer at Articulate Project Space
Applications open all year round
Volunteer at Wellington St Projects
Applications open all year round
Volunteer at 541 Art Space – become a student ambassador
Applications open all year round
Volunteer at 107 Projects
Applications open all year round
Volunteer at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Applications open all year round
Volunteer at Oasis Youth Support Network, Surry Hills – Art Classes
Applications open all year round
Exhibition callouts
Sculpture in the Vineyard
Applications open 1 July
Articulate 2018/2019 Program
Applications open now
Breathing Colours Gallery (Balmain, NSW)
Applications open all year round
Dungog Contemporary (Dungog, NSW)
Applications open all year round
Gaffa Gallery (Sydney, NSW)
Applications open all year round
Project Gallery 90 (Paddington, NSW)
Applications open all year round
Scratch Art Space (Marrickville, NSW)
Applications open all year round
Thienny Lee Gallery (Edgecliff, NSW)
Applications open all year round
Arnold Street Gallery (Bendigo, VIC)
Applications open all year round
Brunswick Street Gallery (Fitzroy, VIC)
Applications open all year round
MAS Gallery & Studio (Malvern, VIC)
Applications open all year round
The Art Vault (Mildura, VIC)
Applications open all year round
Firstdraft (Woolloomooloo, NSW)
Applications close 22 March 2020 for exhibitions, curators’ and public programs.
Art Prizes
Dobell Drawing Prize #22
Entries close 5pm, Monday 5 October 2020
Blacktown City Art Prize
Entries close 5pm, Tuesday 6 October 2020
Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize
Entries close midnight, Friday 6 November 2020
The 66th Blake Prize
Entries close Monday 12 October 2020
The Hero’s Journey aMBUSH Gallery Art Prize 2020
Entries close Wednesday 30 September 2020
Shelley Simpson Ceramics Prize
Entries close midnight, Tuesday 30 November 2020
Carstairs Prize
Entries close midnight, Sunday 25 October 2020
Lake Art Prize 2020
Entries close midnight, Friday 23 October 2020
Burwood Art Prize 2020
Entries close 5pm, Wednesday 30 September 2020
Australian Residency Opportunities
Parramatta Artists’ Studios: Artist-In-Residence Program
Applications close 24 March 2020, midnight
The Pickers’ Hut at Glaziers Bay, TAS
Applications open year round
Fremantle Arts Centre Artist in Residence Program, WA
Applications open all year round
Imagine Residency at Art in Motion, Coomba NSW
Applications open year round
Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra
Applications open year round
International Residency Opportunities
NES Artist Residency, Iceland
Applications open year round
ComPeung residency in Northern Thailand
Applications open year round
Jardin Orange, Shenzhen, China Residency
Applications open year round
Applications open year round
Application deadline 1 August 2019
Grants, Scholarships and Bursaries
Edified Energiser Grants 2020
Entries close Saturday 31 October 2020
Australia Council First Nations Emerging Career Development Award 2020
Entries close 3pm, Monday 28 September 2020 for projects starting after 1 January 2021
Artists’ Benevolent Fund
The renewed Artists’ Benevolent Fund hopes to provide modest but useful one-off financial assistance to Australian visual artists in crisis as a result of fire, flood, storm, serious illness, major accident, declared state or national emergencies, or some other unexpected catastrophic experience.
Applications now open, no deadline date for submission
NAS Residencies and Internships
See our Scholarships and Residences page for all information.
NAS Scholarships and Awards
See our Scholarships and Residences page for all information.
