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
Development Grant 2025
Do you have a bold idea, a project ready to take flight, or a skill you’re itching to master? Our Development Grant (previously known as Creative Development Grant) offers up to $3,000 to help emerging creatives turn ambition into action—to kickstart new projects, research and develop ideas or new works, or build skills, markets and creative practices.
Closing 22 June 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.
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.
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 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.
Dawn Slade-Faull Award
The Dawn Slade-Faull Award – $5,000, aims to empower South Australian emerging artists with a disability by providing financial support and encouragement to help them realise their potential in their chosen medium. The Award aims to be flexible and respond to the changing needs of artists and the community.
Closing 4 July 2025.
Narra Bukulla Artist in Residence, Tanja NSW
The Narra Bukulla Artist Program is an Artist in local-Residence program (AIR). Develop your professional practice over two months nestled in Tanja’s spotted gum forest. Open to artists working across any art form. Within a secluded forest of spotted gums, the artist studio is a walk or short drive to pristine beaches.
Closing 6 June 2025.
Samstag Scholarship
The annual scholarships enable Australian artists to develop their artistic capacities and skills through a dedicated period of practice-based learning.
Each scholarship covers reasonable costs for twelve months overseas, including institutional fees for one academic year of study (where applicable), a generous tax-exempt stipend of $75,000, return airfares, and travel and medical insurance.
Closing 30 June 2025.
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.
Artselerate - Adelaide Hills
ARTSELERATE SA is a unique program specifically for creative practitioners and arts professionals that combines all the benefits of a business incubator, start-up accelerator, creative collaboration, and networking opportunity. Participants set practical goals, build connections, and gain ongoing support from experts and peers.
The in-person sessions are held in two blocks of two days. Participants need to attend all sessions, along with self-managed learning, and optional mentor meetings. Each session day runs from 9.00am to 5:00pm on the following dates
+ Friday 2nd & Saturday 3rd May 2025
+ Friday 30th & Saturday 31st May 2025
T Projects - Public Art Mentoring Program
The T Projects Public Art Mentoring Program brings together global leading sector professionals involved at every stage of the development and delivery of public art, to share their specialist knowledge and perspectives, and break down what is required to win, plan and deliver large scale public art commissions.
Closing 27 June 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.
Nebula - Country Arts SA
Nebula is an opportunity for regionally based visual artists to attend a three-day intensive program of workshops, forums, talks and networking opportunities centred upon strengthening professional arts practice.
Closing 19 May 2025
Sculpture in the Valley - Kangaroo Valley
Arts in the Valley is a community organisation, umbrella for three types of events conducted in the historic village of Kangaroo Valley – music, Visual Arts and Sculpture in the Valley. The latter is a biennial event that will be held again this spring. It is expected to attract up to 3,000 visitors to the valley over the first two weekends in September. Submissions now open.
Closing 1 June 2025
Creative Studio Residencies at Montsalvat
Montsalvat, in Eltham, Victoria is an arts village and artist community spanning ninety years of continuous creative practice.
Montsalvat is establishing 6 Project Spaces available for short-term residences to better support the diverse needs of our artistic community. We are looking for expressions of interest from emerging or established creative practitioners.
Closing 30 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.
Assemblage Artist in Residence
The program is designed to draw up-and-coming artists to Flinders University to conduct and share research activities that examines and extends creative practice. The program is an exceptional opportunity for creative arts practitioners to work collaboratively with creative arts staff and students at Flinders University. The program provides the time and facilities for arts practitioners to conceptualise and develop new work.
Closing 9 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
MAP mima Summer Commission | EOI open
We are seeking expressions of interest for immersive projection artworks that engage with the Cube and create unique experiences for audiences. Artists can apply with exhibition-ready projects or proposals to develop work. We are interested in artists who wish to extend their practice by gaining skills with projection, light and sound installation.
Closing 4 June 2025
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
The Waverly Art Prize
Entries close 11 May 2025
‘the churchie’ emerging art prize
Entries close 25 May 2025
Chapel Hill Horizons Art Prize
Entries close 14 July 2025
Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize
The Australian Photographic Society’s Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize is a national $30,000 acquisitive prize that seeks to find Australia’s best conceptual photographic works. Finalists of the prize are exhibited annually at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre with the prize-winning work joining the Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection.
Entries close 13 June 2025
Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize
There’s a $46,000 prize pool across 4 categories.
Entries close 19 May 2025
Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize
Entries close 12 May 2025
STILL: National Still Life Award
STILL: National Still Life Award is open to artists at all stages of their practice and working across all mediums, including but not limited to painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video and installation.
STILL 2025 has a prize pool of $36,000.
Entries close 6 July 2025
Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize
Now in its 9th year, the Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize is open to South Australian residents over the age of 18. More details on this year’s prizes and sponsorship will be coming soon.
Entries close 18 July 2025
Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Potraiture
The $20,000 biennial national award for excellence in photographic portraiture in memory of photographer Olive Cotton will celebrate its 20-year anniversary this year. The finalist exhibition will be selected from entrants across Australia and is a significant opportunity for established and emerging photographers. The winning work is acquired for the Gallery’s collection.
Entries close 13 May 2025
Best in Show – Australian Photographic Dog Prize
The inaugural Best in Show Australian Photographic Dog Prize invites amateur + professional photographers to enter a favourite dog photo for a chance to win a first prize of $5000.
Entries close 19 May 2025
Gallery One Smallacombe Portrait Prize
Subject is self portrait, a 2D work, created in painting techniques only, including oil, acrylic, watercolour, tempera, gouache, pastel and mixed media excluding digital or AI art.
Entries close 30 June 2025
Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award
Entries are open for the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2025, a $26,000 national award that celebrates works made with, on or about paper.
Entries close 30 June 2025
Fifty Squared Art Prize
Brunswick Street Gallery is excited to announce that entries are NOW OPEN for our 2025 Fifty Squared Art Prize, Australia’s largest open-call art prize for artworks measuring 50x50cm or less. Over $12,000 in prizes.
Entries close 18 May 2025
Emerging Artist Award at fortyfivedownstairs
Submissions are open to emerging Australian visual artists whose work exemplifies innovation and originality across a range of media, from cutting-edge artistic practices to new takes on traditional styles.
Entries close 19 May 2025
Bowness Photography Prize
Submissions are now open for the 2025 Bowness Photography Prize at the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh).
The artist awarded the acquisitive Bowness Photography Prize in 2025 will receive $50 000, plus two Honourable Mentions will receive $2500 each in cash. All finalists will be paid a loan fee.
Entries close 13 June 2025
MAC yapang Art Prize
MAC yapang Art Prize is a national, acquisitive art prize.
This new Art Prize has a total prize pool of $40,000 and is open to artists from all disciplines across Australia, with artworks in any medium.
Entries close 30 July 2025