Art Market Resources

Welcome to our Australian Aboriginal art investment online gallery in Sydney, Australia

We are an investment art gallery in Sydney offering Indigenous artworks and Aboriginal art rental. Our team of art investing and art rental advisers are experts in financial planning, art wealth management and wealth creation and can help you with art and financial advice.

The following websites offer a wealth of information on art market sales, trends and reports.

The Art Record - www.artrecord.com

The Australian Art Sales Digest - www.aasd.com.au

Artnet - www.artnet.com

Artprice - www.web.artprice.com

Art Gallery of New South Wales - www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au

Australian Art Market Report - www.aamr.com.au

Art World artworldmagazine.com.au - a bi-monthly magazine that deals with the modern art scene.

Beautiful Asset Advisors (includes the Mei Moses Art Index, which tracks the performance and financial return of art purchases.) www.artasanasset.com

Chrisite's - www.christies.com

Queensland Art Gallery - www.qad.qld.gov.au

Sotheby’s - www.sothebys.com

Menzies Art Brands (includes Deutscher-Menzies and Lawson-Menzies auction houses) - www.menziesartbrands.com

Museum of Contemporary Art - www.mca.com.au

National Gallery of Victoria - www.ngv.vic.gov.au

Art and Australia www.artaustralia.com - a quarterly report that mainly discusses the news and reviews of the art market as well as providing the artists’ profile.   

Australian Art Collector www.artcollector.net.au quarterly. Every year the first edition lists “50 most collectable Australian Artists”. You canm also subscribe to This Art Week, a free newsletter on artists, local art galleries and auctions. 

Art Gallery Guide Australia www.artguide.com.au- a monthly magazine that lists details of several art exhibitions scheduled across the country.

Art Insight www.artequity.com.au/insight - an online publication which can provide collectors exhibition updates, latest news of the art market and art profiles.

 

Art Prizes

Winning an award can improve the profile of an artist and helps him to reach the next level. There are a number of awards like the Archibald prize which is the most prestigious award in Australia among others which can have a short-term but positive effect on the artists.

Some of Australia’s most prestigious art prizes include:

Archibald Portrait Prize ($50,000) www.thearchibaldprize.com.au

This prize is given to the person who has made a mark in the fields of art, politics or science. 

Wynne Prize ($25,000) www.thearchibaldprize.com.au/competitions/wynne

This prize is given for landscape painting based on Australian scenery or sculpture of a figure. 

Sir Sulman Prize ($20,000) www.thearchibaldprize.com.au/prizes/sulman

This prize is dedicated to an Australian artist for genre or subject painting or fresco.

Doug Moran National Portrait Prize ($100,000) www.moranprizes.com.au

 It is the richest prize in Australia given for portrait painting. 

Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize ($50,000) www.moranprizes.com.au

Metro5 Art Award ($40,000) www.metro5gallery.com.au

This prize is given only to Australian artists under 35 for painting of any genre. 

The Blake Prize ($20,000) www.blakeprize.com.au

This prize is given to the artists who help explore religious awareness through his or her paintings. 

Fleurieu Art Prize ($50,000) www.artprize.com.au

It is a bi-annual prize given for the painting of a landscape based on Australia. 

Dobell Prize for Drawing ($20,000)  www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aboutus/art_prizes#dobell

It is an award given to the artist for their drawing. 

Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders Art Award ($40,000) www.nt.gov.au/nreta/museums/exhibitions/natsiaa

This prize is given annually to the adult aboriginal and Torres Strait islander artists. 

Basil Sellers Art Prize ($100,000) www.sellersartprize.com.au

This award is given to the artists who deal with the theme of sport in their art works. 

Glover Prize ($30,000) www.johnglover.com.au

This award is given annually for painting landscape on Australian scenery.  

 

 

 

 

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