Fifty Squared art prize 2025
21 june–4 july
We are excited to welcome you to the 2025 Fifty Squared Art Prize, Australia’s largest open-call art prize for artworks measuring 50x50cm or less!
This year, our Fifty Squared Art Prize showcases the work of over 600 artists practicing throughout Australia and beyond. As a result, the exhibition collection is as diverse as it is expansive, featuring hundreds of artworks encompassing all artistic disciplines including painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, weaving and more!
Whether you are an artist, an art collector or just an art lover, this is an event not to be missed!
PRIZES
Over $12,000 in prizes to be awarded, including:
meet our guest judge
DR. VINCENT ALESSI
CEO & DIRECTOR, LINDEN NEW ART
Dr Vincent Alessi was appointed as the CEO + Director of Linden New Art in October 2022. Vincent has held numerous positions within public cultural institutions including as a Director and Senior Curator. He has curated exhibitions both nationally and internationally on artists as diverse as Mike Brown, Philip Hunter, Brook Andrew, Julie Rrap, Polkong Anading and the Ryan Sisters, and on topics varying from abstraction in Australian landscape painting to notions of place and identity in contemporary practice. In 2019 Vincent with colleagues Ry Haskings and Narelle Desmond founded the non-for-profit contemporary art space Conners Conners in Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Vincent is also an active art historian. His research interests include the life and work of Vincent van Gogh, mid-late 19th-Century European art, 19th-Century popular graphic illustration and Australian contemporary visual art and curatorial practice.
Fifty Squared Art Prize 2025, exhibition view
Fifty Squared art prize exhibition
21 june–4 july 2025
CELEBRATION EVENT
FRIDAY 27 june, 6–9PM
Fifty Squared Art prize 2025 proudly supported by
