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12 November 8×8 To Educate Art Award and Exhibition created by 16 year old Katura Halleday to raise funds for educating a group of girls in Mozambique and Tanzania.

19 November Moree Portrait Prize  offers artists the opportunity to display their work in a professional art museum and develop their practice with feedback from our professional judge.

19 November Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize Montsalvat is proud to announce the forthcoming Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize 2021.

19 November Tom Bass Prize for Figurative Sculpture first national Australian prize for figurative sculpture

24 November The inaugural STA Members Exhibition ARTIST CALLOUT – STA Members are invited to submit up to three work for inclusion.

12 December The 2022 Napier Waller Art Prize is open to current and former service personnel in the Australian Defence Force. The prize encourages artistic excellence, promotes the transformative power of creativity, and raises awareness of the experiences and talent of service personnel.

4 January The Maldon Portrait – I Be Human Prize this year, incorporates both the Painting/drawing Prize, and a Photographic Prize, with a first prize prize money of $5000 each – plus an online peoples choice prize of $500 each.

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!

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.

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