Are you an artist looking for a competition to enter your work in?
Here is a list of the top art prizes around Australia.

Winner Archibald Prize 2020: Vincent Namatjira with “Stand strong for who you are” (Artist Ben Quilty on left)
- Archibald Portrait Prize | Portraiture | $105,000
- Art Lovers Australia Art Prize | General | $25,000
- Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing | Drawing | $27,000
- Albury City National Photography Prize | Photography | $35,000
- Anzang Nature Photography Competition | Photography | $20,000
- Brisbane Portrait Prize | Portraiture | $30,000
- Calleen Art Award | General | $20,500
- Clayton Utz Art Award | General | $20,000
- d’Arcy Doyle Art Awards | Landscape | $20,000+
- Doug Moran National Portrait Prize | Portraiture | $180,000
- EMSLA – Eutick Memorial Still Life Award | Still Life | $20,000
- Gab Tatui Indigenous Art Award | Indigenous | $37,000
- Glover Prize | Landscape | $53,500
- Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize | Portraiture | $10,000
- Indigenous Ceramic Art Award | Ceramics | $37,600
- Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA) | Drawing | $45,500
- Josephine Ulrich and Win Schubert Photography Award | Photography | $50,000
- Kilgour Prize | Portraiture | $50,000

Winner Kilgour Prize 2020: Michael Bell “Starting The after party (Two self-portraits)”
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- Kennedy Prize | | $25,000
- Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture | Sculpture | $120,000
- Muswellbrook Art Prize | $70,000 worth of prizes
- National Works on Paper Prize | All mediums | $50,000
- Olive Cotton Photographic Award for Photographic Portraiture | Photography | $24,250
- Paddington Art Prize | Landscape | $35,000
- Portia Geach Memorial Award | Portraiture | $72,000
- Sculpture in the Vineyards | Sculpture | $34,000
- Sculptures in the Garden & Mid-Western Regional Council’s Acquisition Prize | Sculpture | $43,000

Winner Wynne Prize 2020: Hubert Pareroultja “Tjoritja (West MacDonnell Ranges, NT)”
- Sir John Sulman Prize | Subject painting, genre painting or mural project | $40,000
- Singleton Art Prize | Painting & Drawing | Approx. $20,000 in prizes
- STILL – National Still Life Awards | Still Life | $30,000
- Swell Sculpture Festival Sculpture Award | Sculpture | $15,000
- Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award | Indigenous | $80,000
- The Lester Prize | Portraiture | $95,000+
- William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize | Photography | $30,000
- Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize | Sculpture | $29,000
- Wynne Prize | Landscape | $50,000
- York Botanic Art Prize | Flora & Fauna | $7,500
*Please note: All prize details were correct when published (24th October 2020)
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