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small works art prize 2025
Entries are now open for the 2025 Small Works Art Prize, Australia's largest open-call art prize for artworks measuring 35x35x35cm or less! All entries exhibited.
Each year the Small Works Art Prize showcases artists at all stages of their career, from emerging to established, practicing throughout Australia and beyond, with an exhibition of hundreds of artworks encompassing painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, weaving and more!
Attracting hundreds of artists and thousands of gallery visitors to its showcase exhibition, this is an opportunity not to be missed.
We look forward to seeing your entry!
All artworks entered will be on display to the public in our showcase exhibition from 5–18 January 2025.
PRIZES
Over $12,000 in prizes to be awarded, including:
Small works art prize exhibition
5–18 january 2025
CELEBRATION EVENT
FRIDAY 10 January, 6–9PM
meet our guest judge
EMILY SEXTON
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING, ACMI
Emily Sexton is Director of Programming for ACMI, Australia’s museum of screen culture. Her ongoing interest in the radical and relevant aligns strongly with her current role, leading the curatorial, film, industry and public programs in a future-focused, vibrant museum whose audience is majority under 35.
An experienced curator, Artistic Director and executive producer, Emily has developed a leading practice for storytelling in new forms - across the performing arts, digital, broadcast, visual arts, literature and ideas. From 2018-2023 Emily was Artistic Director for Arts House, Melbourne’s home for contemporary performance and experimental practice. In this role Emily oversaw structural and systemic change to Arts House at a programming, leadership, staffing and infrastructure level to address racial and disability justice in the arts. Highlights of her time include commissioning new major works by Marrugeku, Nat Randall and Anna Breckon, Australian Dance Theatre, The Rabble, Dan Daw and Latai Tamaepoeu in addition to major festival and partnerships such as Dance Massive, and The Warehouse Residency, a ground-breaking disability-led commissioning approach. In 2019, Emily co-founded BLEED: a biennial commissioning festival for new art that looks at the relationship between live and digital, in Australia and Taiwan.
Emily’s previously leadership roles include Head of Programming for The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas (2015-17), Artistic Director of Next Wave (2010-14) and Creative Producer of Melbourne Fringe (2008-10). She is a Sidney Myer Creative Fellow, alumni of multiple Creative Australia Leadership programs and serves as a trustee of the Malcolm Robertson Foundation.
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