Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award

This prestigious award supports emerging professional artists through publishing an image of the winner's work on the back cover of Art & Australia magazine and inside, an article on the winner's practice. One of the 2012 winners will have a work acquired for the Art & Australia Collection. Also from this year, each of the award recipients will be offered a complimentary full-page advertisement in Art & Australia.

• Closing date: 1 March 2012
• Notification: Two months following the closing date

Applications must submitted online by the above due date. Printed applications will not be accepted.
Please read all of the information below before submitting your application.

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Eligibility

• You must be a visual artist who has been practising professionally for no more than five years, and who has had work publicly exhibited.
• You must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, or have permanent resident status in Australia or New Zealand.

How to apply

• To apply for this award you will need to submit an online application.
• To start your application please click the ‘Start online application’ button at the top of this page. 
• Please read through the application form in full before completing. 
• Click here to download the Guidelines and Terms & Conditions for this award.

Support Material

As part of your online application you will need to upload the following support material:

• your Artist CV, no more than 1 x A4 pages in length and saved as a .pdf file*;
• 10 images supporting your art practice. These should be uploaded in one PowerPoint file, one image per slide. Click here to download a template; 
• an Image List, listing the titles of your images in the order they appear in the PowerPoint file. This should be saved as a .pdf file*. Click here to view an example Image List;
• a moving image file (if applicable to your practice), saved as an MP4 file;
• 2 professional references, saved as .pdf files*.

*How to create a .pdf file from a Word document

• In the Word document go to File and click ‘Save As’
• Select the drop down menu next to ‘Format’ and click ‘PDF’
• Click the ‘Save’ button

Assessment

Four artists will be selected every 12 months using the following selection criteria:

• artistic merit and well-developed concepts.
• a well developed artistic practice and vision of a professional career.

Artistic merit will be judged on the basis of work completed to date and the applicant's commitment to furthering his/her career in the visual arts, which will be assessed from information provided in the online application.

Unsuccessful applicants are welcome to re-apply, but successful applicants are ineligible for further assistance through this scheme.

A shortlist of artists is selected by members of the Art & Australia advisory board. The final decision is made by staff of Art & Australia (in consultation with the advisory board).

Art & Australia is published quarterly, in March, June, September and December.

Support

If you would like to discuss your application please contact NAVA on (02) 9368 1900 or nava@visualarts.net.au

This is an Art & Australia scheme supported by Credit Suisse Private Banking.