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Emerging artists
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National awards
and prizes
Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award
The Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award supports
emerging professional artists through publishing an image of the winner’s work on the
back cover of Art & Australia magazine and an article on the winner’s practice, as well as
the opportunity for acquisition to the magazine’s collection. Entrants must be visual
artists who have been practicing professionally for no more than five years, and who
have had their work publicly exhibited.
— www.visualarts.net.au/grantsprizes/artaustraliacreditsuisseprivatebankingcontemporaryartaward
Australian Book Review Young Calibre Award
The Young Calibre Award is intended to generate brilliant new essays and to foster new
insights into culture, society and the human condition. Essays are welcome from emerging
writers aged 21 and under. All non-fiction subjects are eligible; from life writing to literary
studies, history to politics, biography to philosophy, natural history to popular science,
travel writing to environmental studies. The prize is awarded to an outstanding piece of
creative non-fiction of between 1 000 and 3 000 words.
— www.australianbookreview.com.au/competitions/youngcalibre
Australian/Vogel Literary Award
The Australian/ Vogel Literary Awards are presented for unpublished manuscripts by a
writer under the age of 35. The award offers publication by Allen and Unwin and prize
money totalling $20 000.
— www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=442
Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) Scholarships
The AYO is committed to ensuring Australia’s most talented young musicians have every
opportunity to succeed in their aim of becoming one of tomorrow’s greats. The $10 000
AYO Scholarships, introduced in 2009, are for three outstanding musicians selected to
play in The Australian Youth Orchestra. The scholarship assists with all the costs involved
in becoming a professional musician, such as the purchase and/or maintenance of instruments,
AYO participation fees, study costs and travel expenses for instrumental lessons or auditions.
All musicians aged between 18 and 25 who are selected for the Australian Youth Orchestra
will be eligible for the AYO Scholarships.
— www.ayo.com.au/Content/Page.aspx?CID=284
Brett Whiteley Studio Travelling Art Scholarship
The Brett Whiteley Studio, administered by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, offers a
Travelling Art Scholarship to be awarded to a talented young artist with an established
body of work, who is best able to demonstrate the use and benefit of the scholarship
to further his or her art education in Europe. The Scholarship consists of $25 000 and a
three-month residency at the studio at the Cite International des Arts, Paris.
— www.brettwhiteley.org
Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition
The Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition offers an inspiring glimpse into the future
of the Australian art scene. It provides a forum for artists to compete for a prize across
five categories of paintings, works on paper, photography and sculpture. Finalists from
all Australian states and territories will be pre-selected with the overall winner rewarded
with a $15 000 cash prize.
— www.churchieemergingart.com/content/?id=3
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