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 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.
Ripple Effect Micro-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.
Helpmann Academy Grants & Funding
Helpmann Academy offers a range of grants, fellowships, commissions, residencies and more to support and empower eligible emerging creatives when you graduate.
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.
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.
Carclew Grants & Funding
Carclew is Australia’s largest multi-artform cultural institution dedicated to children and young people.
Carclew offers:
- Fellowships
- Project and Development Grants for Individuals
- Project and Development Grants for Organisations
- Capacity Building Grants for Organisations
CreateSA Funding and Grants
The Government of South Australia is committed to supporting the state’s arts, culture and creative industries.
Investment and support is available through a range of grants, funding and initiatives provided through CreateSA.
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.
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.
Round 2 2026: Opening 1 August, closing 1 October
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.
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.
City of Port Adelaide Enfield Grants
Whether you’re kickstarting a cultural project, an environmental initiative or a local event, these grants empower your group to make a lasting impact and foster stronger community bonds.
Career Development
Including public art EOIs, exhibition call outs, residencies, mentorships, fellowships and more career development opportunities.
Kate Derum and Irene Davies Awards
The biennial Kate Derum and Irene Davies Awards celebrate creativity and excellence in contemporary tapestry. Hosted by the Australian Tapestry Workshop in Naarm/Melbourne, artists from around the world are invited to submit small-scale hand-woven tapestries that reflect an expressive use of materials, concept, colour and design.
Closing 7 September 2026
Public Art Opportunities
The Tram Grade Separation Projects (TGSP) Alliance has removed three level crossings where the Glenelg tram line crosses Marion Road and Cross Road at Plympton and Morphett Road at Morphettville, as well as rebuilt the South Road overpass at Glandore. We are now building new community spaces under the overpasses for locals to enjoy.
- Digital Mural Artist Opportunity
Create a vinyl wrap mural artwork - Stobie Pole Artist Opportunity
Create stobie pole artwork
Closing 24 July 2026
Papper Street Arts Centre: Exhibition Call Outs
Little Treasures for Christmas exhibition 2026.
Little Treasures is Pepper Street Arts Centre’s much-loved annual exhibition celebrating the festive season, and we are seeking artists to take part.
Closing 16 September 2026
The Shape of Memory exhibition – Adelaide Fringe 2027.
Artists are invited to submit artwork inspired by the theme of ‘memory’, for the Adelaide Fringe 2027.
Closing 6 October 2026
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.
JamFactory Associate Program
JamFactory’s highly acclaimed Associate Program provides outstanding career development opportunities for emerging artists and designers working in the fields of glass, furniture, ceramics or jewellery/metal.
The program is designed to accelerate development of the professional and entrepreneurial skills required to establish and maintain a successful and sustainable creative career.
Closing 30 September 2026
Sauerbier House Artist in Residence
Sauerbier House is currently accepting applications from practicing contemporary artists to undertake a site-responsive, open studio residency within the City of Onkaparinga.
Closing 2 September 2026
Newmarch Gallery Exhibition Call Out 2027
Newmarch Gallery is seeking exhibition proposals:
– Of innovative artwork in 2D or 3D media, moving image or sound art, in which the audience experience is considered
– Of new work that has not been exhibited in the Adelaide metropolitan area, in both solo and group exhibitions.
Closing 30 August 2026
Deane Miller Fellowship
The Friends of the State Library of South Australia Deane Miller Fellowship is a new initiative supporting the research and development of an original and new work inspired by the State Library of South Australia’s collections.
The Fellowship is open to artists, writers, researchers and creatives working across disciplines.
Closing 31 July 2026
Pocosin Arts Residencies
Located in North Carolina, USA, Pocosin Arts offers opportunities for discovery, creativity, and lifelong learning in the arts. We provide year-round craft workshops, weekly adult and youth classes, and residencies in metals and jewelry, ceramics, woodworking, drawing, painting, textiles, digital fabrication, and more.
Multiple residency opportunities available throughout 2025-26.
CASE Incubator National Residency Program
Closing 28 August 2026
Sauerbier House Festivals Exhibition Program
Sauerbier House is currently accepting applications for the upcoming 2027-28 festivals exhibition program. Local or visiting contemporary artists, artist groups or curators can apply to exhibit at Sauerbier House in one or more of three very distinct gallery spaces.
Closing 12 September 2026
Noarlunga Aquatic Centre Serpent – Public Art Project
The Noarlunga Aquatic Centre is currently being refurbished and the much- loved serpent that was part of the children’s pool, is being repurposed and installed in an alternative location outside the new facility. Artists are encouraged to apply for this unique community focussed public art project.
Closing 10 August 2026
Hughes Gallery Call Out
Hughes Gallery is located within the Fullarton Park Community Centre (FPCC) and is operated by FPCC staff for the City of Unley.
Closing 28 August 2026
TRACE Collaborative Regional Arts Project
TRACE is an ongoing major project bringing together creative practitioners, artists, creators, crafters, and living communities along Murundi (the River Murray).
Gallery M Retail Space EOI
Gallery M is currently seeking expressions of interest from South Australian Artists to sell in the Gallery Shop.
The gallery retail space is adjacent to the large Gallery M exhibition area. The shop displays high level crafting, objects, and artworks by South Australian Artists.
Closing 30 September 2026
2027 ANAT Synapse residency program
ANAT is calling for applications to the 2027 ANAT Synapse residency program. We welcome submissions from Australian artists who work in any genre with a focus on concepts that intersect and deeply engage with science and/or technology.
The program supports artists-in-residence hosted by Australian research organisations to work together to undertake a period of creative research and practice. The program brings art and science together in partnerships that generate new knowledge, ideas and processes beneficial beyond both fields.
Closing 14 October 2026
Ballara Arts & Lifestyle Retreat 10th Anniversary Artist Residency
We are excited to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ballara Arts & Lifestyle Retreat by offering a complimentary, 10-day Artist Residency.
This opportunity in the small township of Warooka (3 hour drive from Adelaide) on the Southern Yorke Peninsula, SA is designed to empower an astute artist to explore the boundaries of their practice, while engaging with our community.
The residency is open to solo artists or up to a maximum of four artists working on a collaborative project.
Closing 31 August 2026
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
Burnie Print Prize 2027
Entries are open now for the prestigious Burnie Print Prize 2027. Artists from across the country are invited to submit work for this nationally significant acquisitive prize, which continues to champion excellence, innovation and technical skill in contemporary print practice.
Total Prize money $24,000.
Closing 30 October 2026
23rd Annual National Acquisitive $30,000 Paddo Painting Prize
23rd Annual National Acquisitive $30,000 Paddo Painting Prize for a painting inspired by the Australian landscape.
Closing 2 August 2026
Inaugural National Non-Acquisitive $10,000 Paddo Sculpture Prize
Inaugural Annual National Non-Acquisitive $10,000 Paddo Sculpture Prize for a 3D free-standing sculpture inspired by the Australian landscape.
Closing 2 August 2026
9x5 Landscape Art Prize
Celebrate the spirit of Australian Impressionism with Waverley Woollahra Art School’s 9×5 Landscape Art Prize, now in its 11th year. This esteemed competition invites artists to explore the beauty of the Australian landscape, echoing the spontaneity of early outdoor painters who famously used 9×5 inch cigar box lids as their canvases. First prize $2,000.
Closing 9 July 2026
Heysen Prize for Lanscape
The Heysen Prize for Landscape 2026 invites artists to express their deep connection with – or concern for – protecting the Australian environment and to pay homage to Hans Heysen as an artist and environmentalist. Acquisitive Prize $15,000
Closing 21 August 2026