Postgraduate Scholarships and Opportunities

The National Art School (NAS) is now accepting applications for the 2025 Aboriginal Art Centre Internship program. Now in its thirteenth year, this internship program is made possible through the generous support of Sharon Toffler and Mark Tedeschi AM QC.

These internships provide graduating students with an opportunity to acquire practical arts management experience and training in an active Aboriginal community art centre environment. Working closely with the Art Centre Manager, interns will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience working with artists and day-to-day arts centre operations. Successful applicants are expected to take up the internship in 2025.

In 2024 Internships will be offered with Ernabella Arts Incorporated in far north-west South Australia and Tapatjatjaka Arts located at Titjikala, Northern Territory. Recipients will be provided with transport to and from the art centre, accommodation, and stipend for the ten-week period of the internship.

Applications are open to students completing the Bachelor of Fine Art or Master of Fine Art programs in 2024.

Applications for the 2025 program are open until Monday 11 November 2024.

Please read the Application Guidelines before completing the Application Form.

THE MARK HENRY CAIN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP 

An annual award of $10,000 in commemoration of Mark Henry Cain, an artist trained at Glasgow School of Art who relocated to Sydney in 1937. The Mark Henry Cain Memorial Scholarship supports an MFA student to travel for their artistic research for a period of 6-8 weeks in the UK (including England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland). The award is supported by generous endowment made by a private donor.

Applications for 2024/2025 have closed and the Scholarship has been awarded to Fergus Berney-Gibson. Applications for 2025/2026 and will reopen in April 2025. 

The East Sydney Doctors Scholarship is a generous opportunity funded by East Sydney Doctors, providing $5,000 to a student completing the first year of the Master of Fine Art degree and going into the second year of the program at the National Art School.

The recipient is intended to use them as a stipend to support living and study expenses.

This Award is open to students continuing their progress in the Master of Fine Art program at the National Art School.

Applications for the 2025 program are open until Monday 11 November 2024.

Please read the Application Guidelines before completing the Application Form.

The Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre boasts an on-site, live-in artist in residence studio called the Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio (AIR).

The AIR studio is generously supported by benefactor Mr Tim Fairfax AC and named in honour of his mother Nancy Fairfax, who was a great friend of Margaret Olley.

The AIR program includes:

• A $5000 stipend

• A two to four-week studio residency in March 2025

• A three-month solo exhibition in 2026, in the Friends Gallery at the Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre.

Applications for the 2025 Award will open shortly. Please email [email protected] if you would like to be notified.

The Lift Off Award, generously funded by private donors, will provide $20,000 to a promising graduating MFA candidate from the National Art School.

The successful recipient will be eligible to use the funding to undertake an artist residency, international travel, to establish a studio, purchase specialised equipment, mount an exhibition, a publication or any project that requires a lift off to support their burgeoning art practice.

Applications for the 2025 Award are open until Monday 11 November 2024.

Please read the Application Guidelines before completing the Application Form.

The National Art School is proud to have a generous scholarship of $20,000 to support a student studying in the Master of Fine Art Program. Funded by the Clitheroe Foundation, this scholarship is open to current Bachelor of Fine Art Students who are immediately applying to continue study at the School in the Master of Fine Art program. The scholarship can be used for fees and course costs or as a stipend to support living expenses for the two-year duration of the course.

Applications for the scholarship are made as part of the application to the Master of Fine Art program.

Applications for the Master of Fine Art are open until Monday 4 November 2024.

Please read the Application Guidelines before completing the Application Form.

More information on the Scholarships can be found here: Clitheroe Foundation Scholarship Information.

The Standish & Co Scholarship, a newly established opportunity generously funded by Standish & Co, provides $5,000 to a student continuing from the Bachelor of Fine Art Program into the Master of Fine Art program and majoring in Photomedia. The recipient is intended to use the funds as a stipend to support living and study expenses. The Scholarship also provides $5,000 of in-kind printing at Look Print and mentorship (valued at $5,000) over the two years of the MFA degree.

Applications for the scholarship are made as part of the application to the Master of Fine Art program.

Applications for the Master of Fine Art are open until Monday 4 November 2024.

Please read the Application Guidelines before completing the Application Form.

More information on the Scholarships can be found here: Standish & Co Scholarship Information.