Mandorla Art Award

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Applications close
13 March 2024
Announced
30 April 2024
Prize money
AUD $52,000
Location
WA, Australia
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Mandorla Art Award

$30,000 Acquisitive prize Over $50,000 total prize pool New Artist Residency Prize Open to artists across Australia working in any medium. Mandorla is a contemporary fine art award and Australia’s most significant thematic Christian art prize. 2024 Theme: Refocus: Let all that you do be done in love (1 Cor. 16:14)

The New Norcia Artist Residency Prize is a major new award category: this is a unique opportunity for an artist to live and create artwork in Australia’s only monastic town. In partnership with the New Norcia Benedictine Monastery, this one-month residency provides a studio, accommodation, meals and a $10,000 artist fee. Finalist exhibited at Holmes à Court Gallery in West Perth.

Venue: Holmes à Court Gallery, Gooyaman West Perth

Contact:  For more details e: curator@mandorlaart.com

Summary
Application dates
6 September 2023 - 13 March 2024
Exhibition dates
25 May 2024 - 15 June 2024
Finalists notified
15 April 2024
Eligibility
National Entries
Prize frequency
Biennial - Even Years
Judges
Hannah Mathews - Director of Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA Richard Lewer - Artist, Vic Dr Raewynne Whiteley - Theologian, WA
Prize genre
Religious
Location
Holmes à Court Gallery, Gooyaman West Perth
WA
Australia
Prizes
AUD $52,000
Fees
Entry fee AUD $50
Last updated
8 September 2023
Prior Winners
2022: Claire Beauseine - Winner ($25,000)
2020: Britt Mikkelsen - Winner ($25,000)
2020: Desire Ferreira - People's Choice ($2,000)
2018: Mikaela Mikaela Castledine - Winner ($25,000)
2016: Megan Robert - Winner ($25,000)
2014: Julian Poon - Emerging Artist Prize ($5,000)
2014: Paul Kaptein - Winner ($25,000)