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
Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships
The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships offer the chance of a lifetime for multiple artists across various art forms through travelling either interstate and/or overseas.
These scholarships offer$50,000 for artists (aged 21–35) to explore, study and develop their artistic gifts. This round is open to architecture, ballet, prose, sculpture and singing.
Closing 4 February 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.
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
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.
City of Mitcham Public Art Grants
The City of Mitcham invites artists, groups, and organisations to express their interest in creating public art to enhance and enrich our community.
With a total funding pool of up to $38,000 + GST, this round will support multiple projects, with funding available from $1,000 to $10,000 + GST per project.
Closing 13 February 2025
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.
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.
SWELL Sculpture Festival 2025 Call for Entries
Calling for emerging, mid-career & professional sculptors to apply to exhibit in SWELL Sculpture Festival at Currumbin Beach, Queensland, 12-21 Sept 2025.
Closing 31 January 2025
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!
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
Floating Goose Exhibition Program Call Out 2025
Floating Goose Studios Inc. invites all artists, curators, and collectives to apply to exhibit in our gallery space! Applications will be assessed on the basis of artistic merit and innovative and effective use of the gallery space. Floating Goose Studios Inc. holds monthly exhibitions (4 consecutive weekends).
Closing 26 January 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
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.
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
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
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
16th Solar Art Prize
This South Australian competition aims to celebrate nature and the environment, and promote the reduction of carbon emissions, in the fight against global warming.
The Solar Art Prize-Caring for Our Planet is now in its sixteenth year with prizes to the value of $44,000 to be awarded in March 2025, in the form of vouchers for solar products.
Entries close 4 February 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
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
Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
Now in its ninth year, the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize is the highest value art prize for women in Australia with $58,000 in prize money available across Professional Artist, Emerging Artist and Indigenous Emerging Artist categories – plus a People’s Choice and Highly Commended Awards.
Entries close 5 March 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 2025
2025 Telstra NATSIAA Awards
Telstra NATSIAA is the longest running and most prestigious celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture. For over 40 years, the Telstra NATSIAA has provided a platform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to showcase their diverse practices and cultural expressions on the national stage. An important part of Australia’s cultural calendar, the Telstra NATSIAA honours established, mid-career artists and emerging artists.
Entries close 2 March 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
National Monoprint Prize 2025
National art prize for monoprint artworks.
Entries close 4 February 2025