Opportunities
Heidi Kenyon, From little things… (installation detail), 2018. Photograph Grant Hancock.
Guildhouse is all about connecting creatives with opportunities.
We share a variety of opportunities on offer through our partner organisations and the wider industry. In this section you can explore a variety of Art Prizes, Commissions, Proposals, Call Outs, Residencies, Mentorships, Career Development, Grants and Funding opportunities.
The opportunities listed here are independent from Guildhouse. Please follow the links or contact information provided for further information.
Grants & Funding
Creative Australia Investment and Development Opportunities
Creative Australia offers a range of funding opportunities including Arts Projects for individuals, Groups or Organisations. Visit the website for further details and funding round dates.
City of Charles Sturt Arts Fund
Applications are invited from artists and arts organisations to support the development and delivery of NEW creative initiatives within the City of Charles Sturt.
Ian Potter Cultural Trust Emerging Artist Grants
The Ian Potter Cultural Trust runs three Funding Rounds per year to support emerging Australian artists to undertake professional development opportunities to gain experience, develop networks and learn skills from leaders in their field.
Ripple Effect Mirco-grants
Ripple Grants fund transformational projects that build and shape communities at local scale. The process is competitive, with an emphasis on projects that are clear, achievable and have impact.
Micro-grants of $1500 are awarded to a different project every second month, as decided by our incredible group of donors based on the applications received over the previous 8 weeks.
Regional Arts Australia Fund
The Regional Arts Fund provides open, competitive grants through two streams: Project Grants and Quick Response Grants.
Quick Response Grants are delivered monthly from February to November. Each round opens on the first day of the month and closes on the last day of the month.
Country Arts SA Grants
Grants are available to support arts and cultural activities in regional South Australia that are sustainable, have long term cultural, economic and social benefits, develop partnerships and cultural networks and provide skills development opportunities.
City of Port Adelaide Enfield Placemaking Grant
The Placemaking Grant program aims to support the creation and delivery of projects in public spaces across the city. These include initiatives that improve how we feel and use our public spaces and how we can enhance the way they look, work and feel, and also how we celebrate our heritage. The program gives the community the opportunity to make their City a place where people love to be through placemaking projects of all sizes and shapes.
Grants of up to $7,500 will be available for community organisations and businesses with an ABN.
Grants of up to $1,000 will be available for individuals or informal groups without an ABN.
City of Adelaide Quick Response Grants
Quick Response Grants are for a maximum of $5,000. Applications must be submitted at least 6 weeks before the project start date.
Examples of Quick Response Grants projects include – Accessible and low-cost performances, exhibitions, cultural events, festivals, concerts, public artworks.
Nexus 40 for 40 quick response grant
This grant, of up to $1000, is available to support First Nations artists and those who identify as being culturally and racially marginalised or culturally and linguistically diverse, based in South Australia.
Open to all eligible artists, this grant can be used to access small project or professional arts development and training opportunities that arise at short notice, or that fall outside the scope of other funding opportunities from funding bodies such as Arts South Australia.
Gordon Darling Foundation Grants
The Gordon Darling Foundation is a perpetual public charitable trust, established in 1991 to “support Australia-wide, activities of importance in the Visual Arts.”
The Foundation can only provide funding to Public Institutions in Australia. Applicant organisations must have Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status.
Individuals wishing to apply for funding for projects must partner with a Public Institution which then takes on responsibility for the project.
The Independent Arts Foundation
The IAF is a registered charity managed entirely by volunteers. Its role is to support the development of the arts in South Australia by contributing grants to individuals or groups who are in the early stages of their artistic journey and wish to develop their work, locally, interstate and overseas, particularly emerging artists of any age who may be writers, actors, performers and musicians, or projects that benefit emerging artists.
Career Development
Including public art EOIs, exhibition call outs, residencies, mentorships, fellowships and more career development opportunities.
The Mill Visual Arts Studio Residency 2025
One Culturally Diverse artist will be given the opportunity to join The Mill community, receiving a 6-month studio space in 2025 and an exhibition outcome in The Mill’s Gallery II in 2026. The artists will be selected through an open call-out addressing criteria assessed by a panel of The Mill staff.
Closing 9 December 2024
SALA 2025 Projects EOI
SALA Festival are inviting expressions of interest for 2025 SALA projects. If you are a South Australian visual artist who is itching to take to the stage at Slide Night, lead an arts workshop, guide an art tour, or something equally exciting, we’d love you to express your interest and tell us your ideas!
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Artist Residency
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia is the only museum dedicated to Australian First Nations art in the United States. Its mission is “to expand knowledge and understanding of Indigenous Australian arts and cultures to cultivate greater appreciation of human diversity and creativity.”
In partnership with the University of Virginia, we offer this exciting professional development opportunity for established First Nations visual artists to undertake a residency of up to four weeks at Kluge-Ruhe and exhibit a collection of work.
Closing 12 November 2024
ANAT SPECTRA 2025 :: Reciprocity
ANAT welcomes Expressions of Interest from Australian artists who work in any genre or medium and whose artistic practice intersects and deeply engages with science and/or technology. Artwork, performances, conversation topics and experiences will be considered for inclusion in the ANAT SPECTRA 2025 program.
Closing 23 January 2025
Gallery M 2026 Exhibition Call Out
Exhibition proposals are invited from solo, group and community artists across all media.
Closing 29 November 2024
Call for artists: Wildlife exhibition SALA 2025
Pepper Street Arts Centre are accepting 2D and 3D artwork created around the theme of ‘wildlife’ for SALA 2025. Artists are encouraged to let their creativity soar. This theme may suggest non-domestic fauna and flora, the use of wild materials, the interpretation of personality or environment.
Closing 15 April 2025
Blue Studio Residency
Blue Studio Residency is open to local, Australian and International ceramic artists of all skill levels. Proposals are welcome throughout the year and each season has its own creative possibilities.
Iparrityi Portrait Commission | Opportunity
The City of Adelaide is seeking Expressions of Interest from First Nations artists to create a contemporary portrait of prominent Kaurna woman Iparrityi/Ivartji (c. 1849–1929) to be installed in the City of Adelaide Council Chamber in the Adelaide Town Hall
Closing 20 November 2024
Edenhope Artist Residency
The residency program is open to all types of artists, scientists, makers, designers, and educators looking for time and space to work on their own projects in an open-plan studio space. Activities held at EAR include workshops open to the local community, artist talks, and pop-up exhibitions and performances. EAR aims to engage international and local Australian artists interested in experiencing a new location with stays between 1 and 3 months.
Closing 1 January 2025
The Mill Kayangan Visual Arts Studio Residency 2025
In 2025 an Asian Australian artist will be given the opportunity to join The Mill community, receiving a 6-month studio space and an exhibition outcome in The Mill’s Gallery II, featured in OzAsia Festival. The artists will be selected through an open call-out addressing criteria assessed by a panel from The Mill and OzAsia Festival.
Closing 9 December 2024
THRF Video and Moving Image Program
Expressions of interest are welcomed throughout the year from artists wishing to participate in the THRF Group – Creative Health Video and Moving Image Program. Viewed via our website, this Program showcases artists working in the medium of Video and Moving Image Art.
firstdraft First Peoples Curators Program
The First Peoples Curators Program supports an emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander curator with new skills, professional presentation and development opportunities, and access to key industry networks.
Art Prizes
Ramsay Art Prize
A $100,000 art prize supporting contemporary Australian artists under 40.
Entries close 13 December 2024
Perry Prize for Drawing
The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, valued at $25,000.00, is an acquisitive prize. Finalists in the competition are also eligible to be considered for The People’s Choice Award, valued at $2,000.00 (non-acquisitive). To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the event, a second acquisitive prize, the PLC Sydney Prize for Arts Education, valued at a minimum of $5,000, will be awarded in 2025.
Entries close 15 January 2025
2025 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize
The sixth biennial Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize will be held in March-April 2025. First prize will again be $20,000. There will be at least seven category prizes of $2,500 each, making a total prize pool of at least $37,500.
Entries close 31 January 2024
Collie Art Prize
The highly anticipated Collie Art Prize is back for 2025, bringing together talented artists from across Australia. With over $60K in prize money up for grabs, next year’s competition promises to be the most exciting yet!
Entries close 12 December 2024
Halloran Contemporary Art Prize 2025
Entries are now open for the Halloran Contemporary Art Prize 2025, an acquisitive prize that engages with and responds to the Museum’s Halloran Collection: Science & the Sea. This year, the theme of ‘time’ as it relates to the collection must be explored.
Entries close 29 November 2024