Multi-finalists
First - here is the visualisation for artists selected in 6 or more finalists' exhibitions, followed by a visualisation of those finalists exhibited in 5 or more art prize exhibitions with the names of the exhibitions.
Please note - the list of prizes we used for this data is at the bottom of this window.
There are going to be art prizes which we can't find a list of finalists, so our data is unfortunately not exhaustive. We update the entire list of finalists rather than just individual artists.
A common question is how do we produce the visualisations - we use an application called Neo4j which is a graphDB.
Prizes which have the most multi-finalists
Which prizes have the most multi-finalists who have been in 5 or more other finalist exhibitions this year? The Lethbridge 20k Prize had 19 finalists who have been in 4 or more other prize exhibitions this year. In other words, 19 finalists in the Lethbridge 20k were finalists in at least 4 other prizes in 2022. And 14 finalists in the Gosford Art Prize were finalists in 4 or more other prizes this year, and so on.
This means there are some prizes which happened to select artists that were also selected by a number of other prizes in the same year. It might also indicate that artists cluster around certain prizes like the Lethbridge and the Gosford/Portia Geach etc.
Here's the list as of 1 December 2022:
Prize Name |
Number of multi-finalists |
Lethbridge 20,000 Small Scale Art Award |
19 |
Gosford Art Prize |
14 |
Portia Geach Memorial Award |
12 |
Mosman Art Prize |
11 |
Hornsby Art Prize |
11 |
Lethbridge Landscape Prize |
11 |
Percival Portrait Award |
11 |
Calleen Art Award |
10 |
Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize |
9 |
Sunshine Coast Art Prize |
8 |
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing |
8 |
Muswellbrook Art Prize |
8 |
Waverley Art Prize |
6 |
Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize |
6 |
Dobell Prize for Drawing |
5 |
The Lester Prize |
5 |
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA) |
5 |
John Villiers Outback Art Prize |
5 |
Archibald Prize |
5 |
Clayton Utz Art Award |
5 |
GreenWay Art Prize |
5 |
Alice Prize |
4 |
Gallipoli Art Prize |
4 |
North Sydney Art Prize |
4 |
Darling Portrait Prize |
4 |
Kennedy Prize |
4 |
Paddington Art Prize |
4 |
Wyndham Art Prize |
4 |
Paul Guest Prize |
3 |
Sir John Sulman Prize |
3 |
Blake Prize |
3 |
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize |
3 |
John Leslie Art Prize |
3 |
National Emerging Art Prize |
3 |
Kedumba Drawing Award |
2 |
Wynne Prize |
2 |
Incinerator Art Prize |
2 |
Mandorla Art Prize |
2 |
9x5 Landscape Prize |
2 |
North Queensland Ceramic Awards |
2 |
Prizes analysed for this data
Title |
Number of finalists recorded |
9x5 Landscape Prize |
89 |
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing |
46 |
Alice Prize |
62 |
Archibald Prize |
53 |
Basil Sellers Art Prize |
28 |
Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize |
41 |
Beechworth Contemporary Art Award |
10 |
Blacktown City Art Prize |
72 |
Blake Prize |
65 |
Bluethumb Art Prize |
7 |
Calleen Art Award |
50 |
City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award |
31 |
Clayton Utz Art Award |
42 |
CLIP Award |
1 |
Darling Portrait Prize |
39 |
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award |
41 |
Dobell Prize for Drawing |
64 |
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize |
31 |
Fisher's Ghost Art Award |
2 |
Gallipoli Art Prize |
30 |
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize |
28 |
Glover Prize |
42 |
Gosford Art Prize |
133 |
GreenWay Art Prize |
148 |
Hadley's Art Prize |
35 |
Heysen Sculpture Biennial |
22 |
Heysen Prize for Landscape | |
Hornsby Art Prize |
97 |
Incinerator Art Prize |
33 |
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA) |
57 |
John Leslie Art Prize |
47 |
John Villiers Outback Art Prize |
40 |
Kedumba Drawing Award |
21 |
Kennedy Prize |
48 |
Koorie Art Show |
1 |
Lethbridge 20,000 Small Scale Art Award |
231 |
Lethbridge Landscape Prize |
80 |
Mandorla Art Prize |
43 |
Maritime Art Prize & Exhibition |
58 |
Meroogal Women's Art Prize |
36 |
Montalto Sculpture Prize |
24 |
Mosman Art Prize |
90 |
Muswellbrook Art Prize |
49 |
National Emerging Art Prize |
77 |
National Photographic Portrait Prize |
50 |
North Queensland Ceramic Awards |
77 |
North Sydney Art Prize |
118 |
Paddington Art Prize |
52 |
Paul Guest Prize |
40 |
Percival Photographic Portrait Prize |
53 |
Percival Portrait Award |
110 |
Perth Royal Art Prize for Landscape |
60 |
Portia Geach Memorial Award |
58 |
Pro Hart Outback Art Prize |
31 |
Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize |
108 |
Redland Art Awards |
48 |
Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize |
34 |
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize |
1 |
Sculpture in the Vineyards Wollombi Valley Sculpture Festival |
114 |
Sculptures in the Garden |
1 |
Sir John Sulman Prize |
31 |
Sunshine Coast Art Prize |
40 |
Swell Sculpture Festival |
90 |
Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award |
104 |
The Lester Prize |
39 |
Tom Bass Prize for Figurative Sculpture |
37 |
Tom Malone Prize |
15 |
Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition |
1 |
Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize |
72 |
Waverley Art Prize |
60 |
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize |
52 |
Wyndham Art Prize |
80 |
Wynne Prize |
38 |