Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship

• Key dates

  Entries open 3–31 July 2023

  Applicants must be born between 1 August 1992 and 31 July 2003, an Australian citizen since at least 31 July 2021, and living in Australia between 31 July and 25 October 2023

  Works must be created between 31 July 2022 and 31 July 2023

  Winners announced 25 October 2023

  Exhibition at the Brett Whiteley Studio 19 October – 26 November 2023

  Shark Island Kangaroo Valley residency 7–20 November 2023 

  Cité internationale des arts, Paris residency July–September 2024

Instructions and conditions

• Eligibility

  The applicant must, on the closing date for applications, be aged between 20 and 30 and have been an Australian citizen for at least two years. They must also be living in Australia during the scholarship application/announcement period.

• The work

  • The applicant must submit images of TEN works.

  • AT LEAST FIVE of the works must be PAINTINGS. The other works may be in other media.

  • The applicant must nominate ONE of the paintings as the work they would prefer the judges to consider in competition for the scholarship.

  • All works must have been created during the specified period: see Key Dates above.

  • All works must NOT exceed the size limit of 100 × 150 cm (either landscape or portrait orientation).

• Images of the work

  When filling out the form, the applicant must:

  • upload one jpeg image of each of the ten artworks, with the FIRST work as your nominated work

  • complete the information in the accompanying fields: title, year, medium and size (height x width in centimetres)

  Each jpeg image file should be:

  • less than 5MB

  • between 1024px and 4096px on the longest side

  • not include special characters such as !@#$%^&*()’? in the file name

• Awarding the scholarship

  The scholarship is judged by an artist selected by Studio and Art Gallery staff.

  The judge may, at their discretion, nominate any other paintings from the submitted images as the work for consideration instead of the work nominated by the applicant.

  The judge will select a shortlist of applicants. All applicants will be notified of the outcome.

  Shortlisted applicants must deliver the requested work or works to the Brett Whiteley Studio, 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010 for a second round of judging at a date to be specified. 

  The applicant is responsible, both financially and logistically, for their application and for the delivery and return of their artwork. All associated costs, including postage, freight, and insurance, are to be borne by the applicant.

  The Studio and Art Gallery recommends each shortlisted applicant maintains their own insurance for packing and transit to and from the Studio. Works will be covered whilst in the care, custody or control of the Studio and Art Gallery with cover commencing upon receipt of delivery at the Studio until such time as the work is collected from the Studio.

  The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

  One scholarship recipient will receive a payment of $50,000 and a three-month residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris.

  Five scholarship recipients will each receive payment of $10,000 and a two-week studio residency for all five recipients at the same time in the Kangaroo Valley, Southern Highlands, NSW.

  Recipients must take the scholarship residencies during the stipulated dates. See Key Dates above.

  Entries will be eligible for consideration for both residencies. Applicants are not able to specify a residency.

  Except for payment of the scholarship funds, the Studio and the Art Gallery are not liable for any other costs or losses scholarship recipients may incur during their residency.  

  The Studio and the Art Gallery recommends that scholarship recipients take out appropriate travel and medical cover for the duration of their residency and associated travel.

  Scholarship recipients must comply with all residency conditions stipulated by the Cité international des arts, Paris and the Shark Island Kangaroo Valley residencies, as applicable.

• Exhibiting the work(s)

  The scholarship recipients grant the Studio and Art Gallery permission to display the work(s) in an exhibition for the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship at the Studio or such other venue as the Studio and Art Gallery may in their absolute discretion determine (see Key Dates above).

  It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that the original work(s) is available for these purposes, whether or not they are the owner of the work(s).

  The scholarship recipients agree to make themselves available for the purposes of scholarship-related events, promotion and publicity at times and dates and in places reasonably requested by the Studio and Art Gallery.

• Original and non-infringing work(s)

  The applicant warrants that the works are their original work and do not infringe the copyright, moral rights or other rights of any third party.

• Licensing the work(s)

  If selected as a scholarship recipient, the applicant grants to the Art Gallery a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual licence to reproduce (including photograph) the work(s) in material form, publish and communicate the work(s) to the public for the following purposes, and anything incidental to such purposes: marketing, publicity, educational, publication (for sale or otherwise) and archival uses of the Studio and Art Gallery in relation to the scholarship and its exhibition in all media, including electronic/digital, broadcasting and print media.

  The licence above includes the right to sublicense to the Studio and Art Gallery’s scholarship partners and sponsors in accordance with its agreements with those persons.

  Any merchandising rights (other than publications) are not included in the licence and would be agreed separately.

  It is the applicant’s responsibility, not the Studio’s or Art Gallery’s, to advise any purchaser of the work(s), or rights in the work(s), of these licensed rights.

• Moral rights

  The Studio and Art Gallery will attribute the artist when exhibiting, reproducing or publishing the work(s) or communicating the work(s) to the public, unless it is reasonable in all the circumstances not to do so, or the artist has consented in writing, and the Studio and Art Gallery will use its reasonable endeavours to ensure that scholarship partners and sponsors do the same. The artist consents to the display of the work(s), including in relation to any other work in relation to the exhibition and the scholarship.

  The Studio and Art Gallery will generally reproduce the work(s) in full. However, details of the work(s) may be used under the licence above at the Studio and Art Gallery’s discretion, and the artist consents to any such use. The Studio and Art Gallery will not make other material changes to the work(s) without the prior written consent of the artist, unless it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so, and will use its reasonable endeavours to ensure that scholarship partners and sponsors do the same.

• Force majeure

  Where, for any reason beyond the reasonable control of the Studio and Art Gallery (including, for example, earthquake; flood; fire; act of God; terrorism; pandemic; government directions, orders or regulations; labour strikes or other emergency event), the Studio and Art Gallery are prevented or materially hindered from holding the scholarship or an exhibition of works then it may vary, postpone or cancel the scholarship by notice in writing to that effect to the applicants and by a notice on its website.

• Personal information

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