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 Boost Grants 2025
Creative Boost Grants provide emerging creatives with a quick boost of cash up to $500 to support you when you’re just starting out.
Eligible emerging artists can use the funds to purchase essential services and materials or pay for immediate costs. You may be developing small projects, building digital skills or developing your audience. It may be to support you to continue your creative practice.
Closing 13 April 2025
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.
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.
Carclew Grants & Funding
Carclew is Australia’s largest multi-artform cultural institution dedicated to children and young people.
Carclew offers:
- Project and Development Grants for Individuals
- Project and Development Grants for Organisations
- Capacity Building Grants for Organisations
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.
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.
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.
SALA Registrations are now open
The South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival is an open-access visual arts festival held each August, celebrating the work of living South Australian visual artists, regardless of age or experience right across the state.
UNTAPPED
UNTAPPED is a program for emerging Australian writers and/or directors who have not yet received significant recognition and opportunity in their artistic career.
The eight-month program, which runs online from March to December 2025, will provide practical creative pathways and foster exciting collaborations for a new and undiscovered generation of Australian filmmakers.
Closing 26 March 2025
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
Space for hire: Arts Centre Port Noarlunga
The Arts Centre is located in the beautiful seaside village of Port Noarlunga.
The centre offers flexible arts spaces to hire for up to 270 people, including:
- two dedicated gallery spaces
- a performance space
- rehearsal studios
- visual art studio
Uplift: Digital Skills Program
Uplift provides grants of up to $50,000 to support professional development, training and mentoring to build digital capability for First Nations artists and creative workers.
This opportunity is open to First Nations led organisations and businesses to deliver activities within local communities. Funding can support a range of digital development opportunities identified as priority areas for building capacity.
Closing 1 April 2025
ACE Annual Studio Program
ACE is home to fully-supported, rent-free CBD-based studios for South Australian artists.
The ACE Annual Studio Program provides year-long professional development opportunities, including 24/7 access to studios above the ACE gallery, studio visits with Australian and international curators, participation in live programs, curatorial mentorship from ACE, and prominent profiling and promotional opportunities.
Closing 7 April 2025
HABITAT: An open printmaking exhibition
Printmakers from throughout Australia are being invited to respond to the theme of what HABITAT means to them for exhibition at West Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre ACT.
Closing 7 April 2025
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.
Australian Good Design Awards
The Australian Good Design Awards set the benchmark for excellence in design and innovation, celebrating the most groundbreaking projects from around the world. Spanning design, architecture, engineering, research, fashion, and social impact, the Awards recognise visionary work that shapes how we live, work, and interact.
Closing 2 May 2025
EOI: Palmer Sculpture Biennial 2026
The Palmer Sculpture Biennial is a biennial exhibition was established in 2004 which includes emerging, mid career and established artists, with diverse styles of practice represented. A distinguished artist is also invited to participate. The exhibitions are organised on the basis of artist goodwill and involvement. Artists visit the site and respond to that experience, enabling a range of contemporary sculptural expression with works somehow complementing rather than competing with the enigmatic landscape.
Closing 1 June 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.
City Library SALA Emerging Curator Project
The South Australian Living Artists Festival (SALA) Emerging Curator opportunity, is an annual art exhibition celebrating Adelaide’s distinctive heritage, multicultural richness, and creative culture. This year marks the eight edition of the SALA Emerging Curator Exhibition Project. We are seeking an emerging Curator to develop, coordinate, and realise an exhibition spanning across the City Library.
ACE x firstdraft Short-term Residency
A unique opportunity for South Australian artists to develop new work at ACE before presenting a solo exhibition at firstdraft in Sydney.
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
Chapel Hill Horizons Art Prize
Entries close 14 July 2025
Boynes Artist Award
The Boynes Artist Award celebrates artists of all 2D & 3D mediums and stages, providing career-changing prizes, cash awards, features, and the spotlight your work deserves.
Entries close 31 March 2025
All Connections to Unley Art Prize
Major prize of $5,000 for artists exploring their connection with Unley. Share your Unley experience for a chance to be part of this exciting and unique finalist exhibition.
Entries close 11 April 2025
RSASA Biennial Abstract Prize 2025
The Royal South Australian Society of Arts is proud to be launching the 2nd Biennial Abstract Art Prize. In 2025, we are taking this unique opportunity to showcase, nonrepresentational abstract art.
This award is open to local and interstate artists. It has a total prize pool of $10,000 that includes an acquisitive first prize of $6,000 from the Kennedy Arts Foundation as well as the M & M Carbins Trust youth awards ($2,000).
Entries close 17 April 2025