Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize

The Macquarie Group Collection has been supporting emerging Australian artists for more than thirty-five years. The Collection’s annual Emerging Artist Prize is forthcoming and offers support to a new generation of Australian visual artists.

Artists are invited to enter one original work that reflects the Macquarie Group Collection theme, The Land and Its Psyche.

Note:

• There is no entry fee.
• First prize $20,000

The associated exhibition will be held in The Art Space a new public gallery in Macquarie’s new global headquarters in Sydney later this year. The exhibition will also be available for viewing online.

Full details of the Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize are set out in the entry portal on their website and key dates are below

•  Prize opens for entries                     Tuesday 8 April 2025

•  Entries close                                       Friday 13 June 2025

•  Semi-finalists announced              June – July

•  Finalists announced                         June – July

•  Exhibition opens                                Thursday 18 September 2025

•  Exhibition closes                               Friday 30 January 2026