Submissions for the 2010 Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards are now open!

Designers aged 30 and under across seven creative fields are invited to submit their work for a chance to receive $5000 of financial support, $5000 in Qantas flights as well as a rare 12 month mentorship opportunity with creative leaders including Marc Newson, Zimmermann, Deanne Cheuk, Jan Chapman and Liz Ann Macgregor.

Categories include:

• fashion
• film and animation
• industrial and object design
• music
• photography
• visual arts
• visual communication

Submissions are due on the 9th August, for further information please go to www.soya.com.au .

Call for Artist Submissions for Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2011

Tim Macfarlane Reid. seeking silence. Sculpture by the Sea, cottesloe 2010. Photo Clyde Yee

Applications are now open for the 7th annual Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, which is being held from 4 October - 23 march 2011. Last year over 140,000 people attended the exhibition during the 3 week period.

The curatorial panel for the exhibition is Jenepher Duncan, Curator Contemporary Australian Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, and Tony Jones, Sculptor, Principle Lecturer Sculpture, Central Institute of Technology Perth.  

Only 10 more days: the deadline of the Faces of Design TALENT Awards 2010 is drawing closer!

Faces of Design has started the final countdown for the first round of their ultimate portfolio competition for design students and recent graduates. Only until July 15th, young designers can get signed up for this competition, in which candidates can submit up to three existing projects to be judged by a panel of leading international creatives and design thinkers. The winning designers' profiles will be distributed to over 1.000 key decision makers at more than 300 companies, including firms such as vitra, IKEA, the Richemont Group (including prestigious brands such as Montblanc, Cartier and Chloé), designers’ studios such as the Campanas’ and Bouroullecs’, and the design press.

Indesign Launch Pad: Entries Close May 10

LaunchPad is an important and unique Australian initiative focusing on the support and development of Australian product design.

Through the Launch Pad program and exhibition, the local and international design community nurtures and celebrates original, authentic and innovative emerging Australian design, by supporting and cultivating the careers of those product designers involved.

The depth and breadth of Launch Pad goes far beyond its annual exhibition of prototypes. The expertly curated Launch Pad program of events also promotes real relationships between people, ideas and products in design.=

Free Range Inc. welcomes proposals from practicing artists and curators working in any medium for solo or group shows, performances, and projects. They aim to support emerging and established artists working across a broad range of critical practices. Their program aims to include a diversity of art practices, and work that is experimental and innovative.

Applications are assessed by the free range committee monthly. When assessing applications free range looks for proposals that are well-considered, critically engaged, and ambitious.

Applicants will be informed of outcome via email as soon as possible (usually within 4 weeks of submission).

Download an application form here.

Entries for the Ranamok Prize for Contemporary Glass (Australia and New Zealand) are now open.

The Ranamok Glass Prize is an annual A$15,000 acquisitive award for glass artists who are resident in Australia and New Zealand.

2010 marks the sixteenth year of The Ranamok Glass Prize and in celebration of this the prize money has been raised to A$15,000.

Image by Nicole Yardley

FORM, with the support of BHP Billiton Iron Ore, is facilitating a series of visual arts development workshops in the fields of painting and drawing, with nationally renowned artists. 

The visual arts development program is part of FORM’s creative professional development programming package, aimed at fostering enhanced technical and artistic skills for Pilbara community members, and through this, increasing opportunities for alternative creative industries to emerge.

We encourage all aspiring and established artists, designers and painters to apply to participate in these workshops. The weekend workshops will run in April, May, June and July; more information on the full workshop program is in the attached application form.

In cooperation with Vitra Design Museum and the Centre Georges Pompidou, CIRECA has been putting on an international summer academy at Domaine de Boisbuchet since 1996. The international summer workshops are offered from July through mid-September.  The courses are led by renowned designers, architects and artists who live and work together with the participants for a length of six to ten days. 

The goal of the workshops is not to design a “perfect” product but rather to provide insights into the design process and the associated challenges of rational thinking, creativity and manual skills. 

Propel has $33,000 to give to young Perth artists who need funds for their arts idea!  You can apply for up to $3000 to pay for many things such as  venue hire, professional fees, material costs, admin costs and much more.  YCulture has no funding rounds which means you can apply at any time!  It is a super easy application form, which we will guide you through every step of the way!