VISUAL ARTS

Artspace, Sydney Grant
This aims to expand opportunities for New Zealand artists to work in a new, critical context and present their work to an international audience. Open to all New Zealand visual artists currently working or exhibiting in New Zealand. Value: $9,000 plus travel and material costs. http://www.creativenz.govt.nz

Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award
The Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award is one of New Zealand's most prestigious drawing competitions. Established in 1993 to recognise excellence in drawing and to raise its status within visual arts education and practice, this biennial award is made possible through the legacy of Canterbury watercolourist Cranleigh Barton (1890-1975), and is jointly presented by the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, the Canterbury Museum and the executors of Cranleigh Barton's estate, Guardian Trust Financial Services Ltd. www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz/Awards/CranleighBarton/

Frances Hodgkins Fellowship
The purpose of the Fellowship is to aid and encourage painters and sculptors in the practice and advancement of their art, to associate them with the life of the University, and at the same time to foster an interest in the arts within the University of Otago. The Fellowship is open to any man or woman normally resident in New Zealand who has executed sufficient work to show that he or she possesses some talent as a painter or sculptor, and as a serious artist will benefit from the tenure of the Fellowship. www.mch.govt.nz/awards/cultural-sector/arts-residencies

Goldwater Award
The Goldwater Art Award, created in 2001, has become a highly successful addition to the New Zealand Arts calendar. The Award is a partnership between Waiheke winemakers Goldwater Estate and the Waiheke Community Art Gallery. It is open to two-dimensional art in any medium. All work must have been executed in the past 12 months and must not have been previously exhibited. www.mch.govt.nz/awards/cultural-sector/arts-awards

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Artist-in-Residence
A residency established through the partnership between the Govett Brewster Art Gallery and the Taranaki Polytechnic and upported by Creative New Zealand. It is available for one New Zealand artist and one international artist per year for 3 months. www.mch.govt.nz/awards/cultural-sector/arts-residencies

Graphic & New Media Design Ambassador Award
The Design Ambassador programme creates an opportunity for young designers to compete with their peers and demonstrate their talent to potential employers. www.designambassador.org.nz/main/graphic or www.dinz.org.nz

International Studio, New York
The International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York is a four-month residency offered biennially. It provides excellent networking opportunities, along with open studio shows and critiques of the artist's work www.creativenz.govt.nz/our-work/international/residencies.

Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
The Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists' Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien is offered biennially and alternates with the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency.
www.creativenz.govt.nz/our-work/international/residencies.

Mainland Art Award
Sponsored by Mainland Products and administered by the Otago Arts Society. Contact: Otago Arts Society, PO Box 6296, Dunedin. www.mch.govt.nz/awards/cultural-sector/arts-awards

Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation Award
To provide the opportunity for an emerging artist showing talent to work for one year pursuing their own direction as a painter or sculptor, freed from the necessity to seek outside employment. www.oliviaspencerbower.org.nz

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Awards
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation's mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as artists over a significant period of time. The foundation's dual criteria for grants are recognisable artistic merit, and financial need, whether professional, personal or both. http://www.pkf.org/

Rathcoola Residency, Cork, Ireland Residency
The residency provides writers and visual artists with an opportunity to further develop and concentrate their talents for an uninterrupted period of time in relaxing surroundings for twenty five weeks Applicants must be New Zealand or Australian citizens, who are resident there and have a record of excellent achievement in their art form. www.rathcoola.info

Red Gate Gallery, Beijing Residency
Supported by Creative NZ and Asia 2000 this three month residencty aims to encourage artists to develop projects inspired by the environment and culture of Beijing. Open to writers, visual arts, craft/object artists. www.mch.govt.nz/awards/cultural-sector/non-specific .

Rita Angus Cottage Residency
The residency is worked in tandem with Massey University and the Thorndon Trust—caretakers of the Rita Angus cottage. Significant visual arts practitioners, from both here and overseas, have an opportunity to develop a particular body of work in situ in Wellington. The residency does not have a teaching component attached to it. It is research focused with the aim of enabling artists to concentrate on developing a particular strand of their practice with an expectation of achieving an exhibition output. www.massey.ac.nz or
www.mch.govt.nz/awards/cultural-sector/arts-residencies

Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi Residency
This is a 12-week residency offered at the Kendra Campus of the Sanskriti Foundation on the outskirts of New Delhi, to be undertaken between September and April. It is offered by Creative New Zealand in partnership with the Asia New Zealand Foundation www.creativenz.govt.nz/our-work/international/residencies.html

The North Shore City Art Awards
Two dimensional work relating to the coastline, coastal settlement, flora, fauna, the sea, marine life, or maritime activity. www.mairangiarts.co.nz

Trust Waikato Contemporary Art Award
This annual award is open to contemporary artists working in any media. First initiated in 2000 by Trust Waikato and the Waikato Society of Arts. Waikato Museum were the host institution, and since 2006 have taken on the role of managing the awards. www.waikatomuseum.co.nz

Tylee Cottage Residency
The purpose of the residency is to provide a unique opportunity for an artist to undertake some relevant aspect of their work under less pressured circumstances. The obvious benefits procured by the artist extend to the Wanganui community through acquisitions by the Sarjeant Gallery, public lecture programmes and a planned exhibition where relevant. www.sarjeant.org.nz or www.mch.govt.nz/awards/cultural-sector/arts-residencies

Unitec Artist-in-Residence
This annual residency supports two craft/visual artists for 6 weeks (one may be a non-New Zealand artist). http://www.unitec.ac.nz

Waikato National Painting and Printmaking Art Award
One of the country’s most prestigious art awards, The New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Awards is open to artists working in painting and printmaking. The $15,000 prize is donated to the Waikato Society of Arts by the Philip Vela Family Trust, who in addition, purchase the winning work. The Vela family are building an important collection, which they intend to exhibit in the future. www.wsa.org.nz

Wallace Art Awards
These annual awards for contemporary New Zealand painting, sculputre and unique photography aim to encourage the visual arts in New Zealand and in particular to reward financially those producing outstanding work. This is an acquisitive award open to all New Zealand citizens and permanent New Zealand residents. http://www.wallaceartstrust.org.nz.

Walters Prize Award
This prestigious Biennial award aims to recognise the most outstanding contribution made to contemporary visual art in New Zealand in the two years prior to the award. It is opening to all Contemporary visual artists. Not restricted to New Zealand artists as work made in response to a New Zealand experience also qualifies. www.mch.govt.nz/awards/cultural-sector/arts-awards or http://www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz

William Hodges Fellowship (Southland Art Foundation) Artist-in-residence
This annual residency is supported by Creative New Zealand and aims to provide the opportunity for significant New Zealand visual artists to work with and within the community of Southland. In 2000, Southland Art Foundation renamed the residency programme William Hodges Fellowship, in recognition of the first recorded 'European Artist in residence in Southland' who was part of Cook's second voyage in 1773. Also in 2000 Burwell House was opened as the residence for the William Hodges Fellow. www.southlandmuseum.com