PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS OF ENTRY CAREFULLY.
Entry to the 2025 East Gippsland Youth Art Prize is free. All entrants must live, work or study in the East Gippsland Shire Council and be aged between 12 and 25 years at the time of entry.
If this registration form is received after the due date, it will not be accepted, and the applicant will not be eligible to participate in the Youth Art Prize.
Only one entry per person in each category will be accepted. An individual may submit different works to multiple categories in their age group, however individuals will only be eligible to receive one first prize in their age group across the Youth Art Prize 2025 with the exception of Judges Choice and People's Choice award.
A registration form is required for each individual work submitted.
KEY DATES: SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED
Entries Open: Friday 4th July , 2025
Announcement of Winners: Thursday 16th October 2025
Youth Art Prize Opening: Thursday 16th October 2025, 5.30pm - 7:00pm at the Forge Theatre Gallery Space
Youth Art Prize ongoing until 26th October 2025.
Winning art pieces will go on to be exhibited until to end of March 2026. Unless the artist opts out.
Late entries will not be accepted
All artwork, with the exception of the winning pieces, should be collected no later than 5th December 2025. Any uncollected artwork after this date may be donated or responsibly disposed of.
ARTWORK
Artwork submitted must be the entrant’s original work and not a reproduction of already established work.
Entrants acknowledge that they are aware of and have abide by copyright laws.
File sizes must be no less than 200k, maximum size 2mb, no less than 640 pixels, maximum 2500 pixels.
EACH file MUST have the entrants name and title of work
Artwork will be displayed in the #BraveArtsEG and #Youth Voice of East Gippsland Facebook pages.
JUDGING
There are 3 age groups and 4 categories. Each age group and category winner will be awarded $250 first prize.
To be eligible to win in the following categories and age grouping
- Digital Media/Photography/Film
- Visual Arts - Painting/Drawing
- Physical 3D Works
- Indigenous artwork 12-25 years
Age groups
- 12-15 yrs
- 16-20 yrs
- 21-25 yrs
Assessment criteria: -
- Presentation: how well you present your artwork submission
- Description of work + creative process.
- Technical skill displayed by artist
All artworks shall be judged but the organisers reserve the right to withhold any work considered unsuitable for general public display.
The judge’s decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
Winning entrants from each section will be announced at the Exhibition Opening on: Thursday 16th October 5:30PM with 6pm speeches at the Forge Theatre Gallery Space.
EXHIBITION OF ARTWORKS
An Exhibition of Artworks will be held at the Forge Theatre Gallery Space, 80 McKean Street, Bairnsdale.
WHERE TO DROP OFF ARTWORKS
Artworks can be dropped off to any of the East Gippsland Shire Council business centres during business hours by the closing date of
Monday 1st October 2025, 5:00 PM.
Please nominate the Office where you are dropping your artwork off at in the application form.
Please print a copy of this entry form and attach it to the back of your artwork when you drop it off at the East Gippsland Shire Office you have nominated in the registration form.
LEGAL
Entry of artwork to the competition constitutes the artist’s permission for competition organisers to reproduce the work without fee for the purpose of promotion, in print and electronic media.
Sponsored by the East Gippsland Shire Council, BraveartsEG, #East Gippsland Youth Ambassadors
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