Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award
Entries open: 14 June - 15 September

The Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award 2024 is a new art prize for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, first launched at Lismore Regional Gallery in 2021. Established, mid-career, and emerging Indigenous artists working in any medium are encouraged to enter the prize.
 
This is a non-acquisitive award that is free to enter. Shortlisted artworks will be included in the exhibition at Lismore Regional Gallery from 30 November 2024 to 2 February 2025.

KEY DATES
Entries now closed
Finalist artists informed of selection by: 14 October

GUEST JUDGE
Rebecca Ray (Meriam)
Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

PRIZES
Major non-acquisitive Koori Mail Art Award $10,000
Friends of the Gallery Youth Award $500

Terms and Conditions HERE

Please contact the Lismore Regional Gallery if you need assistance regarding submission of the entry form
(02) 6627 4608 | art.gallery@lismore.nsw.gov.au

Proudly sponsored by The Koori Mail. 

ABOUT THE GUEST JUDGE
Rebecca Ray is a Meriam woman descended from the Torres Strait Islands and an experienced First Nations curator, writer, and cultural heritage researcher. She has extensive curatorial experience working across grassroots communities, remote art centres, universities, and galleries at regional and national levels. Rebecca is currently Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. 

Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Arts (History and Sociology) from Griffith University, Queensland and has a research background in decolonisation, identity politics and intersectionality. She is passionate about re-Indigenisation and the reclamation of autonomous and sovereign spaces, with an interest in global First Nations relationality and solidarity that inform curatorial and research methodologies.?



Image courtesy of Rebecca Ray