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Wynne Prize 2026
Art Gallery of New South Wales · Sydney, Australia
Annual Art Gallery of New South Wales prize for the best landscape painting of Australian scenery or figure sculpture, open to artists resident in Australia for the past year. AUD 50,000 winner.
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Who can enter
- Location
- Australia (by country of residence)
- Age
- No age limit
- Career stage
- Any
- Mediums
- Painting, Sculpture
- Size limits
- Paintings max 90,000 sq cm, max height 300 cm; sculptures max 250 cm high, 2 sq m, 600 kg.
- Submission
- Online, then physical if shortlisted
- Also
- Resident in Australia for the 12 months to the closing date; Australian landscape painting or figure sculpture.
About
The Wynne Prize, awarded annually by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, goes to the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours, or the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists.
Entrants must have been resident in Australia for the 12 months before the closing date. Online entry forms were open 2 February to 27 March 2026, with physical delivery in March.
Finalists are exhibited alongside the Archibald and Sulman from 9 May to 16 August 2026. The winner receives AUD 50,000; the Trustees Watercolour Prize is AUD 5,000 and the John and Elizabeth Newnham Pring Memorial Prize AUD 1,000.