23 September 2025
18 November 2025
AUD $60,000
VIC, Australia
This is an anonymous survey I will enter this prize
Undo 16
This prize is held biennially.
A.M.E. Bale was born in Melbourne in 1875 and studied art under Frederick McCubbin and L Bernard Hall at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne. She developed a reputation as a fine artist who distinguished herself particularly as one of Australia’s pre-eminent flower and still life painters of the early 20th Century. Today she is represented in a number of major state and regional art galleries. Miss Bale was the founding secretary of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society, a position that she held until her death in 1955. She established the A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize through her will to support Australian artists in perpetuity.
The A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize is awarded annually to Australian artists who have demonstrated talent and achievement in traditional styles. This includes realist, figurative and representational styles. The Art Prize is intended to encourage, support and advance classical training of emerging artists (in their early to mid-career) at any stage of life, who are pursuing the study and practice of traditional art and who desire to study the works of old masters.
Prizes
- Major award for a travelling scholarship - $50,000
- A.M.E Bale Art Prize in the medium of oils and/or acrylics - $5,000
- A.M.E. Bale Art Prize for works on paper - $5,000
Contact: For more information email alicebaleartaward@gleneira.vic.gov.au or call 03 9524 3402.
Venue: Glen Eira City Council Gallery (Glen Eira Town Hall), Corner Glen Eira & Hawthorn Roads, Caulfield Vic 3162
Summary
5 May 2025 - 23 September 2025
14 November 2025 - 17 December 2025
17 October 2025
National Entries
Biennial - Even Years
The judging panel is comprised through the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society who provide expert assistance to the trustee, Perpetual Trustee Company Ltd
Grants and Scholarships
Glen Eira City Council Gallery (Glen Eira Town Hall), Melbourne, VIC
VIC
Australia
AUD $60,000
There are no fees for entering.
10 May 2025
2022: Jo Reitze - Works on Paper Award ($5,000)
2022: Rick Crossland - Awarded Oil/Acrylic Prize ($5,000)
2022: Rick Crossland - Winner ($50,000)
2020: Joe Whyte - Winner ($50,000)
2016: Ben Winspear - Winner ($50,000)
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