Entries Open | Cossack Art Awards 2016
We hope you have sharpened your senses and pencils because the Cossack Art Awards call for entries has begun. One of the richest regional art prizes in the country, artists across Australia are encouraged to submit works for the 2016 awards.
Known for its strength and stature it involves a significant prize pool of more than $100,000 including $30,000 major prize and residency program.
As a result the list of awards and categories is broad. To find what suits you see here.
Entries close on 7 June 2016 at 5pm (WST).
Note that a maximum of 300 entries will be accepted, entries will close once this has been reached. Late submissions will not be accepted.
EXHIBITION
Cossack Art Awards 2016
24 July – 14 August
City of Karratha
Image: Katherine Brown, Wise Eyes, 2015, Peoples Choice
Courtesy the artist and Cossack Art Award
Although physically he is of modest stature, Zofrea has devoted much of his life to grand projects that have been conceived and executed on a...
Through a multidisciplinary collaboration between Rotterdam-based curators, architect Paul Cournet of CLOUD and artist-designer Sabine Marcelis of Studio Sabine Marcelis, the exhibition explores the interplay...
Artificial intelligence will be used by young artists who started using it as kids on their phones. They will see it as a natural extension...
This year’s Biennale arrives under more complex circumstances than most. It is shaped by the profound loss of its curator, Koyo Kouoh (1967–2025), whose exhibition...
No artist creates in isolation. Every painting carries traces of the conversations, places and histories that shaped it, preserving within its surface a particular moment...
The weekend markets at Fairfield Showground have been one of Western Sydney’s great institutions for more than fifty years. Fresh fruit and vegetables, children’s clothes,...
In recent times, Yorgos Lanthimos has shifted toward photography, noting in a Guardian interview, 2026, that he needs respite, saying, “it might be a couple...
In Australia, political cartoons were altered by several events during the 1960s: the arrival of Les Tanner’s (1927‒2001) instinctual wit at The Bulletin, Bruce Petty’s...
Recognition of the importance of early bark paintings and their link to the world’s oldest continuing culture, is what makes them both highly sought and...