Call for Nominations: Dawn Slade-Faull Award (Australia)

The Award aims to be flexible and respond to the changing needs of artists and the community.

Focus Areas

• Professional Development
• Tuition fees, mentoring, etc
• Modification to equipment
• Purchase of equipment or materials or access to specialised machinery
• Exhibition expenses

Funding Information

• Maximum amount: $5,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Dawn Slade-Faull Award empowers artists with disability who are early career and/or wish to use the Award as an opportunity to move their practice into new and challenging directions.
• Entries may be made by any person with an intellectual, physical, psychiatric, cognitive or sensory disability. Entries may be prepared and submitted on behalf of a person with disability – but only with their agreement and consent.
• Artists must be resident in South Australia.
• The Award supports practitioners of a diverse range of visual arts, crafts and design are eligible, including but not limited to: painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, ceramics, jewellery, textiles, video art and/or sound, and performance art. More experienced artists seeking professional development as a result of a newly acquired disability may also be eligible.
• The proposed use of the Award should further the artist’s development in their chosen medium.

Application Requirements

• Artists must submit 6-8 high quality examples of their work, or 3-5 for media arts (video and/or sound), completed within the last two years together with a CV for consideration of artistic merit and potential for development.
• For paintings, sculpture, jewellery, etc: images of 6-8 recent works
• For media arts (time-related artworks – video, sound, etc with a maximum duration of 3 minutes each): links to 3-5 recent works
• One-page Artist’s Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• One completed Reference

For more information, visit DSFA.