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
Giving Day to the Arts Micro Grants
Creative Australia is introducing a new national Giving Day to the Arts, taking place on Thursday 23 October 2025. Apply for micro-grants for the creation of digital content for your Giving Day to the Arts fundraising campaign.
Closing 3 June 2025
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.
Carclew Fellowships
Carclew Fellowships offer financial support to young emerging cultural and creative artists and arts workers, for:
- Arts career building
- Skills development
- Exploring new art form practice, methods and techniques
- Research towards creative and/or cultural development
- Mentoring towards development of cultural and creative arts practices
Closing 20 July 2025
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
Adelaide Fringe Fund Grants
Arts Unlimited raises funds to support artists, venues, producers and marginalised communities to participate in Adelaide Fringe. A large portion of the funds are distributed as grants via the Adelaide Fringe Fund, which exists to support bold ideas, elevate diverse voices and encourage innovation.
Closing 1 August 2025
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.
Post Office Projects 2026 Exhibition Program EOI
Post Office Projects Gallery accepts exhibition proposals from early and mid-career artists curators based locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
Closing 30 June 2025
Australian World Heritage Residency
The Creative Australia Australian World Heritage Residency Program offers three (3) artist-in-residencies for individual Australian artists or collectives to work on-site with a confirmed Field Partner at a World Heritage Site within Australia. Each of the three (3) awarded recipients will receive a grant of $50,000.
Closing 3 June 2025
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.
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.
Judy Wheeler Commission 2026
Awarded annually, the Judy Wheeler Commission supports new artwork commissions by Australia-based artists that respond physically or conceptually to the architecture and history of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) building and site.
Closing 9 June 2025
GROUNDED YP Art Festival
Yorke Peninsula townships host traditional exhibitions of visual art, photography and sculpture whilst a range of YP venues come aglow with offerings of music, dance, performing arts, artisan foods, beverages, products and more. Held over 15-24 August, opportunities for artists include submitting works into the Open Category Fine Art, Photography and Sculpture Exhibitions and prizes, plus artist workshops.
Closing 31 July 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.
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.
Newmarch Gallery 2026 Exhibition EOI
Opened in October 2019, Newmarch Gallery is a high quality, contemporary exhibition space run by City of Prospect with a strong community focus. Applications will soon open for exhibitions in January, February, March, April, June, July, September, October, November and December 2026.
Closing 31 August 2026
Solar & Sun Sculpture Exhibition
Artists are invited to be part of the 2026 Solar & Sun Sculpture Exhibition, an opportunity to showcase your work in the stunning surrounds of the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden. Set against a breathtaking natural backdrop, the exhibition offers a powerful platform to explore environmental ideas through sculpture, connect with new audiences, and be part of a growing community of artists passionate about art and climate. $12,000 grand prize.
Closing 6 March 2026
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
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.
VACDF Major Commissioning Projects
These grants deliver investment to individuals and groups as part of the Visual Arts, Craft and Design Framework. Each year a designated number of grants are available to each state or territory reflecting the population spread of the country of which the Strategy is based. Grants of $100,000 are available. The new commission proposed must be presented to audiences by 30 June 2027.
Closing 3 June 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
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.
Art Prizes
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
13th Prospect Portrait Prize
The longest running portrait prize in South Australia, the Prospect Portrait Prize is a non-acquisitive juried exhibition of contemporary portraits in any medium.
Entries close 26 September 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
Mosman Art Prize
Call to entries for the 2025 Mosman Art Prize. The prize is Australia’s premier open painting prize, with an acquisitive prize of $70,000.
Entries close 18 July 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
Pymble Values Art Prize
Pymble Ladies’ College is proud to launch the inaugural Pymble Values Art Prize, $30,000 awarded to the winning submission.
Entries close 3 October 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
JUNCTURE Art Prize
JUNCTURE is a biennial prize, awarded to two mid-career artists by Linden New Art. It is a national open callout, with the artists selected by a panel of industry professionals. The two artists will each receive a cash prize of $20,000, to support exciting new directions in their practices, culminating in an exhibition at Linden New Art in 2026.
Entries close 29 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