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
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The HA > NESS Development Grants program is dedicated to fostering the creative and professional progression of emerging artists across various disciplines.
Recognising the challenges faced by emerging creatives, our initiative provides grants of up to $3,000 to eligible final year students and graduates.
Closing 3 November
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.
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.
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.
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.
EOI: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artwork opportunity at Flinders Medical Centre
The Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN) is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) from South Australian based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual artists, to provide unique and high quality illustrations and/or other artwork images (in digital format), to be installed on the internal corridor walls of the Margaret Tobin Centre (MTC) at Flinders Medical Centre (FMC), as part of the current facility expansion.
Closing Monday, 14 October at 2pm.
Helpmann Graduate Exhibition Project Curator 2025
Helpmann Academy is delighted to invite applications from emerging visual artists and curators to undertake a mentorship as Project Curator for the Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition 2025.
Elise Ross Regional Award 2025
Valued at up to $5,000, this award supports emerging visual and performing artists in regional South Australia. It’s designed to help you overcome challenges related to distance and population size by providing creative and professional development opportunities.
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.
EOI: Mural Artwork Croydon
The City of Charles Sturt is seeking a mural artwork from a South Australian based artist or collaboration of South Australian based artists to the outward facing sound wall of 449 Port Road, Croydon.
Closing 18 October 2024
2025 ANAT Synapse residency program
When art collides with science and technology, magic happens. ANAT is now calling for applications to the 2025 ANAT Synapse residency program and welcomes submissions from Australian artists who work in any genre with conceptual aims that intersect and deeply engage with science and/or technology.
Closing 6 November 2024
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
EOI: City of Marion 23rd Community Art Exhibition
As part of the City of Marion’s ongoing commitment to art and culture, all artists living or working in the Marion Council area are invited to participate in the 23rd Annual City of Marion Community Art Exhibition.
Closing 19 October 2024
2025 Brighton Jetty Sculptures
The Brighton Jetty Sculptures Exhibition will be held from WEDNESDAY 22 JANUARY to SUNDAY 2 FEBRUARY 2025.
The exhibition is located along the Esplanade and on Bindarra Reserve adjacent to the Brighton Surf Life Saving Club. The competition is open to local and interstate sculptors, working in any medium.
Closing 1 November 2024
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.
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.
North Adelaide Artist in Residence Expression of Interest
The City of Adelaide is seeking an early to mid-career artist or artist collective to undertake a community arts and cultural development residency in North Adelaide, with a focus on placemaking, community building, and engagement.
Gallery at St Peters Exhibition Call Out
The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters invites expressions of interest from artists to be part of our 2025 Exhibition Season.
There are four exhibition spaces available within the Gallery at St Peters, in additiion to exhibition space in the adjacent Eastern Health Authority, the EHA Gallery.
CALL FOR ARTISTS - Art of Storytelling Exhibition
Pepper Street Arts Centre are seeking mixed media artwork with a narrative or story experience or theme. Art can be a way of telling a story visually. Narrative art is art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time. All artwork mediums are being accepted and you can be creative with the theme.
Atrium Art Display Program 2024 - Applications open
Call for local art and community groups who are interested in exhibiting their work in the Burnside Civic Centre Atrium Space. We have limited spaces available for 2024.
Art Prizes
Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award
The South East Centre for Contemporary Art invites artists from across Australia to submit entries for the 2024 SHNPA. The $50,000 biennial award is non-acquisitive.
Entries close 30 September 2024
Burnie Print Prize
Calling all artists, established, emerging and cross-disciplinary – WE WANT YOU! Burnie Print Prize is making a comeback, better than ever. And with a total of $23,000 up for grabs, there’s no better time to give it a crack!
Entries close 29 September 2024
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 2024
Evelyn Chapman Art Award
The Evelyn Chapman Trust was established by Evelyn Chapman’s daughter Pamela Thalben-Ball and awards a scholarship of $50,000 every second year, to support a young Australian painter by furthering their art education both in knowledge and artistic practice.
Entries close 22 September 2024
Infuse Art Prize
We invite you to apply for ‘Infuse Art Prize’ held at the Ross Creek Gallery in December 2024. This exhibition offers you an exciting opportunity to step out of your artistic comfort-zone and work with a fellow artist creating an interesting collaborative artwork.
Entries close 25 October 2024
People First Bank Photographic Awards
With no cost to enter, this competition encourages photographers all over Australia to explore their surroundings and capture their own little piece of history. With a massive prize pool of over $50,000 across a range of categories and awards, the People First Bank Photographic Awards is one of the most lucrative in the country.
Entries close 27 September 2024
Collie Art Prize
The highly anticipated Collie Art Prize is back for 2025, bringing together talented artists from across Australia. With over $60K in prize money up for grabs, next year’s competition promises to be the most exciting yet!
Entries close 12 December 2024
Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award
The Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award is one of Australia’s most loved and richest prizes for realistic portraiture. The $50,000 biennial award is non-acquisitive and attracts hundreds of entries from many of Australia’s most respected artists.
Entries close 30 September 2024
Halloran Contemporary Art Prize 2025
Entries are now open for the Halloran Contemporary Art Prize 2025, an acquisitive prize that engages with and responds to the Museum’s Halloran Collection: Science & the Sea. This year, the theme of ‘time’ as it relates to the collection must be explored.
Entries close 29 November 2024