Blake Prize

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Applications close
18 December 2023
Announced
18 May 2024
Prize money
AUD $41,000
Location
NSW, Australia
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Blake Prize

The Blake Prize for Religious Art awards $35,000 to the work that the judges consider the best contemporary religious work submitted. There is also an award of $5000 to the winner of the John Coburn Emerging Artist and the MUA Blake Prize for Human Justice, also to the value of $5,000.

The prize was founded in 1949 by a Blake Society committee in Sydney consisting of clergy, artists and laymen drawn from a variety of religious groups who desired to bring about a closer cooperation between church and artist in the modern world. The name Blake was chosen because William Blake as an artist of undoubted genius seemed to belong to no school and succeeded in integrating the religious and artistic content in his work. The Blake Society hoped to encourage artists of disparate styles and religious allegiances to create significant works of art with religious content. Today its members hope to stimulate the interaction of ideas and spiritual thought in contemporary Australian art.

 

Prizes

  • Winner (non-acquisitive) - $35,000
  • Emerging Artist (acquisitive) - $6,000
  • Established Artists Residency

Venue: Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, 1 Powerhouse Road, Casula NSW 2170

Contact Information: for more information email theblakeprize@liverpool.nsw.gov.au or call 02 9824 1121

Summary
Application dates
1 August 2023 - 18 December 2023
Exhibition dates
11 May 2024 - 7 July 2024
Finalists notified
18 May 2024
Eligibility
National and International Entries Allowed
Prize frequency
Biennial - Even Years
Judges
TBA
Prize genre
Religious
Location
Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Casula, NSW
NSW
Australia
Prizes
AUD $41,000
Fees
$50 for one work, 2 for $90 and 30% commission on sales
Last updated
21 August 2023
Prior Winners
2018: Tina Havelock Stevens - Winner ($35,000)
2016: Yardena Kurulkar - Winner ($35,000)
2014: Richard Lewer - Winner ($25,000)