Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2010

• $15,000 acquisitive
• People's Choice award of $2,000 non-acquisitive

Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney presents the fifth annual Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing. Previous winners: Rachel Ellis, Joe Frost, John Fitzgibbon, Julie Harris, Ken Searle. Entries close Friday 15 January, 2010.

$1,000

TAP Gallery, one of Sydney's most innovative galleries and Amnesty International Australia, the worlds largest human rights organisation have teamed up for the 14th year running to present the FREEDOM exhibition.
The exhibition will be on display from 18-31 in January 2010. The event will aim to increase awareness about Amnesty International's work in human rights protection and encourage support and donations. It will also provide a platform for emerging artists to exhibit their work.

2010 City of Hobart Art Prize

Two acquisitive prizes of $15,000 and one non acquisitive prize of $7,500

The City of Hobart Art Prize is open to artists, designers and craftspeople nation-wide. It brings together contemporary visual arts, craft and design practice in a single exhibition.

2010 Fletcher Jones Art Prize

$30,000

The 2010 Fletcher Jones art prize is an acquisitive painting prize of $30,000 conducted by the Geelong Gallery. A panel of one guest selector and two Gallery representatives will assess all entries.

Australia's richest youngest Art Award open to anyone under the age of 35.

• Over $1200 in Cash and Prizes (US Dollars)
  
• Grand prize winner: $5000
  
• Best acrylic: $1000
  
• Best oil: $1000
  
• Highly commended x 3: $300(rrp) worth of product each
  
• Finalist x 30: $50(rrp) worth of product each
  
• Popular choice winner round 1: $1000
  
• Popular choice winner round 2: $1000
  
• Popular choice winner round 3: $1000

The contest is open to two-dimensional, unique, original works of art that have incorporated A>2, Atelier Interactive or Archival Oils in its creation. Sorry, we are not able to accept works of art that include three-dimensional, computer-generated, or photographic images.
Entrants must be 17 or over at the time of entry and enrolled in a minimum one year art program
Contestants must be a student at the time of entry, but not necessarily for the duration of the competition.
Artists may submit an unlimited number of artworks.

$10,000

The Lethbridge 10 000 is an exciting new art prize open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. The judging criteria will be based on three equally evaluated criteria of creativity, originality and skill.

First prize $8000 acquisitive, runner up $1000, viewers choice $500

rex-livingston art dealer, in association with Mount Eyre Vineyards have initiated the Mount Eyre Vineyards Art Prize. This unique partnership gives entrants the chance to win the first prize of $8000 and also the opportunity to have the winning artwork featured on a wine label for a limited edition wine blend made exclusively by Mount Eyre Vineyards.

Xstrata Percival Portrait Award is delivered to you by International Art Services. It is north Queensland's premier portrait prize, with a main prize of $20,000 acquisitive. Andrew Sayers, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, has agreed to judge the award.

Sam Leach's self-portrait Self as Zip has been acquired by the University of Queensland. The portrait was included in the 2009 University of Queensland National Artists Self-Portrait Prize.

Annette Bezor has been awarded an Arts SA Fellowship.

Painter Simone Maynard has won the People's Choice award at Prospect Gallery for his work Food and Desire.

McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park have announced the finalists for the McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award for 2010. Click here to view the list of finalists.

Finalists have been announced for the 36th Alice Prize. Among those included in the exhibition will be Ben Ali Ong, Mostyn Bramley-Moore, Nici Cumpston, Marian Hosking, Dinni Kunoth Kemarre, Alex Kershaw, Makinti Napanangka, Josie Kunoth Petyarre, Tobias Richardson and Claudia Terstappen.

Michael Staniak has won the $10,000 BSG Art Prize for Dark Matter. Kara Baird was awarded second prize.

Chaco Kato was recipient of the Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition & Awards 2009, People's Choice Award for an installation work White Nest 09.

Curtin University graduate Richard Healy has been awarded Emerge Art Space's annual Cream Award for outstanding tertiary arts graduates. As part of the prize, Healy has been awarded a solo exhibition at Emerge.

Jacqui Stockdale has won the inaugural Belle Arti - Chapman and Bailey Art Award 2009. Jacqui's work was selected for the $5000 prize by a judging panel including artist Angela Brennan, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces director Alexie Glass-Kantor, and Heide Museum of Modern Art director Jason Smith.

Julie Donnelly has won the Clinton's Motor's Group Work on Paper Award in the Fisher's Ghost Art Award for work Complacations.

Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2010 Exhibition of Finalists

Corner Hennessy & College Streets, Croydon NSW

Official opening 7pm Friday 26 February 2010

John Ford Paterson: A family tradition

390 McClelland Drive, Langwarrin 3910

This exhibition will showcase John Ford Paterson’s twilight landscapes and coastal scenes including major paintings of Sorrento, Half Moon Bay, Berwick and Fernshaw. Paterson was much admired by his contemporaries in Melbourne, during the 1880s and early 1900s, for his commitment to translating the beauty of nature into his landscapes.

A Camera on the Somme – A Bendigo Art Gallery touring exhibition

390 McClelland Drive, Langwarrin 3910

A Camera on the Somme presents the extraordinary recent discovery of negatives and photographs of the First World War taken by Jack and Bert Grinton, two young brothers from Central Victoria. McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park will showcase this Bendigo Art Gallery touring exhibition of hugely personal and important photographic records from 25 April to 27 June 2010.

McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park

390 McClelland Drive, Langwarrin 3910

Using photography as a lense to isolate and focus on strange yet recognisable fragments of the landscape, Andrew Browne draws together imagery of dark and mysterious settings that evoke a sense of wonderment and speculation. This project exhibition includes paintings and photographs inspired by McClelland's surrounding landscape and will be exhibited from 25 April to 27 June 2010.

The 36th Alice Prize

Cnr Larapinta Dve and Memorial Ave, Alice Springs

Presented by the Alice Springs Art Foundation, the Alice Prize is one of Australia's best known and longest running art awards. It is a national invitation award for contemporary art in any medium showcasing a broad overview of what's happening in both aboriginal and non-aboriginal art practices across Australia.