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10 January The Darling Portrait Prize is a national prize for Australian portrait painting honouring the legacy of Mr L Gordon Darling AC CMG (1921-2015), who was instrumental in establishing the National Portrait Gallery of Australia.

22 January The John Villiers Outback Art Prize is an annual art competition open to all Australian artists and presented by the Outback Regional Gallery and the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, Qld. 

28 January The Glover Prize is a $50,000 prize for alandscape painting of Tasmania (including seascapes and cityscapes). The prize is named in honour of noted artist John Glover (1767 – 1849).

1 February Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibtion one of the world’s most unique sculpture exhibitions, where people have purchased exhibits from their car whilst stopped at traffic lights!

3 February 2022 Lost at Sea. Port Macquarie-Hastings Council invites artists and designers to submit an Expression of Interest to create an installation that responds to the criteria set out in this brief.

11-13 February 2022 The Goulburn Workers Club Annual Art Prize Open to all artists for Oil, Watercolour, Acrylics, other media, miniatures and photography. 

11 February The Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize (BAAP) is an annual prize and exhibition that aims to increase opportunities for participation in Bayside’s arts and cultural program and enable the acquisition of suitable artworks for the Bayside City Council Art & Heritage Collection.

13 February The Alice Springs Art  Prize, a national contemporary art award. The acquisition of works from the exhibition continues to build a significant art collection for the Alice Springs community.  

23 February The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize is an annual prize that was founded to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established women artists in Australia.

Check out all the writing competitions through the Fellowship of Australian Writer