November 08

Australia Council Inter-Arts Grants
The purpose of the Inter-Arts category is to support artists investigating new artistic practice through interdisciplinary and hybrid arts who wish to engage in research and development, creative development and/or production. A project can span more than 12 months.

The Tom Malone Prize is an annual acquisitive prize open to glass artists throughout Australia. Each year $10, 000 is awarded to the winner, and the winning work then becomes part of the State Art Collection at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Each applicant may submit only one work and this must have been produced in the 12 month period between 1 February 2008 and 30 January 2009.

Applications are invited for the 2009 Dawn Slade-Faull Awards of up to $1000 to encourage the personal or professional development of persons with a disability who show promise in the area of crafts or visual arts.

The Instituto Sacatar operates a residency program for creative individuals in all disciplines at its estate on the Island of Itaparica in the Bay of All Saints, across from the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

Dragan’s Prize 2009 aims to commemorate
the extraordinary life of former Stirling
art supporter and gallery owner, Dragan
Miljanovic, while celebrating traditional art, people and places of the Adelaide Hills.

Locked Inside is a unique touring exhibition, the scale of which has a profound impact on its audiences, and gives genuine insight into the plight of refugees in Australian detention centres.

Presented by Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre and Adelaide Festival Centre
Artspace @ Adelaide Festival Centre 25 October – 23 November

The National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) invites research proposals from academics, performers, artists, audiovisual industry and archive professionals to draw fresh, innovative perspectives from the national audiovisual collection.

Established & emerging: artists, ceramicists, curators, installation artists, new media artists, musicians, performance artists, photographers, sculptors, textile artists and writers are invited to apply for the 2009 season of residencies in Hill End.

Kayili Artists, Patjarr

An opportunity to work for a small group of inspiring artists of the Gibson Desert in a challenging environment. Not for the faint hearted, the Kayili Artists Art Centre is located at Patjarr, a tiny and extremely remote Aboriginal community in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands near the WA/NT border. 

The National Portrait Gallery invites all young Australians between 18 and 25 to enter the National Youth Self Portrait Prize 2009. A selection of entries, including the prize-winning work, will be displayed at the Natonal Portait Gallery from 23 July until 13 September 2009.