Visual arts and crafts - Call for entries

The City of Perth Black Swan Prize for Portraiture 2008 - National

Entries by 18 July

This new Australian portraiture competition is open to all Australian artists and has a first prize of $20,000 and a special People's Choice Prize of $5,000. Children will be able to paint one of ten celebrities to enter the Youth Portraiture Prize.

Countryscapes 2008 - National

Entries by 22 July, event 29 October - 30 November 2008

Entries are open for the Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting. The prize was established to encourage and showcase the wealth of artistic talent in country and coastal New South Wales and develop the State's visual arts industry as a whole.

Experimentopia - National

Entries by 25 July 2008

Experimenta is calling for proposals from Australian artists to create media artworks for the 2009 International Biennial of Media Art, Experimentopia. Experimenta will be commissioning new works for up to $6,000 each to be included in the exhibition of exceptional Australian and international media artworks. Successful proposals for the commissions will respond to the exhibition theme, engage audiences, use technology creatively, and can be audio/visual, installation, or object-based. Preference will be given to proposals for interactive works. Experimenta is inviting artists to create media artworks that allow audiences to engage with, act out, inhabit and experience utopic/dystopic scenarios and environments.

JADA 2008 Drawing Award

Entries by 1 August 2008

The 2008 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award is offering $50,000 in prize money. All artists who are residents of Australia can submit up to two drawings.

Heysen Prize for Interpretation of Place

Entries by 18 August 2008

Sir Hans Heysen (1877-1968) was one of the first non-indigenous artists to engage deeply with the Australian landscape, resulting in rich depictions of the outback, atmospheric paintings of Adelaide Hills and sketches of village life. The Heysen Prize for Interpretation of Place seeks to honour and continue this legacy by providing a forum for artists to express their connections to the Australian environment, urban or natural, in the style of their choosing.

2008 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize - National

Entries by August 2008, event 25 October - 2 November 2008

Entries are now open for the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. The sculpture prize attracts strong support from artists, collectors and critics and is one of only two national prizes that showcases the quality and diversity of sculptures of smaller dimensions. The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize offers prizes totaling $13,000.