Art Awards
The Art Awards provide a special opportunity for our community to connect and engage with the Arts, and celebrate the City of Belmont as a place of creativity and culture.
Each year the City invites artists across the state to submit their artwork, welcoming a variety of artistic mediums and styles, featuring a diverse mix of youth, emerging talent and established art professionals.
The Art Awards showcase the talent in our local community and broader arts sector, while supporting artists to create new works that ignite the imagination, tell our unique stories, and foster connections.
2025 Art Awards
Entries to the Art Awards have now closed.
All entries are reviewed by a Selection Panel, where up to 300 works will be selected to participate in the Awards. Entrants will be advised of the outcome in late July.
View the 2025 Art Awards Terms and Conditions here.
For more information or support with your submission, please contact the City's Arts and Place team on 9477 7248 or via email at artsandplace@belmont.wa.gov.au.
Key dates:
- Professional Development Workshop Series - Friday 2 May to Friday 30 May.
- Entries Open - 9am Thursday 1 May to 4pm Wednesday 4 June 2025. Entry form will be available online via this page, or in hard copy from the Civic Centre.
- Exhibition Period - 12 September to 27 September 2025
- Exhibition Open - Tuesday to Friday - 10am to 4pm, Saturday and Sunday - 10am to 3pm
Thank you to the 2025 Art Awards sponsors:
Bronze sponsors:
PerthNow and
Rotary Club of Belmont
Professional development workshop series
Delivered with support from Artsource, the Art Awards workshop series ran throughout May to help artists develop their skills and submit strong applications for the Art Awards.
The series included five sessions exploring the creative process and technical skills, from developing a compelling artist statement to preparing a strong exhibition proposal, and how to promote and document artwork.
All workshops are free for students, $5 for City of Belmont residents, and $10 for non-City of Belmont residents. The series is held between Friday 2 May and Friday 30 May in the Events Room, Ruth Faulkner Library.
Art Award Categories
All entries are reviewed by a Selection Panel, where up to 300 works are selected to participate in the Awards. This includes a selection of artworks by youth and emerging artists, local Belmont artists as well as experienced and professional artists.
The Awards include six categories, plus Highly Commended Awards and the self-nominated Mentorship Prize. The participating artworks are then carefully considered by independant judges to determine the winners
City of Belmont Overall Acquisitive Award
Prize: Artwork welcomed into the City of Belmont Civic Art Collection with a $10,000 prize
City of Belmont Overall Residents Award
Prize: $1,000 cash prize
Emerging Artist Award (18 - 25 years old)
Prize: $500 cash prize
​Resident Youth Award (11 - 17 years old)
Prize: $500 cash prize
Youth Award (11 - 17 years old)
Prize: $500 cash prize
Highly Commended Awards
Prize: 1 x $250 Gift Voucher and 1 X Prize pack valued at $250 courtesy of Jacksons
Mentorship Award
Prize: The winner of this award will receive mentorship from a professional Western Australian artist. Read more about the Mentorship Award.
Popular Choice Award
Prize: $500 cash prize
Public Programs
The Art Award Public Programs deliver a range of educational, informative and fun sessions leading up to and during the exhibition.
Workshops and Accessibility Tours are run during the exhibition period to provide professional development opportunities for emerging artists, and to encourage greater appreciation of the works on display.
The Exhibition
Held in The Glasshouse between Friday 12 September to Saturday 27 September, the free two-week exhibition provides an opportunity for the community to explore the artworks, engage with the community, and purchase a work of art of their own.
The Art Awards attract the interest of a broad cross section of the community including WA Artists, local residents, youth and arts patrons.
Mentorship Award
The Mentorship Award sees an established, WA based professional artist provide mentorship to the Mentorship Award winner.
The Mentorship Award is designed to aid the creative, educational, and professional development of the award winner through feedback, advice and assistance from the Mentor.
Via the Art Awards application form, applicants can nominate themselves for consideration for the Mentorship Award.
The 2025 Mentor is Joanna Lamb.
Joanna Lamb was born in Perth, Western Australia. She graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from Edith Cowan University and a Bachelor of Arts (Design) from Curtin University in 1997. Since her first solo show in 1997, she has maintained a regular exhibiting schedule traversing the practices of painting, printmaking, collage and sculpture.
Joanna’s hard-edged and highly refined compositions depict spaces of (sub)urbanity as an ongoing exploration of place. Stylistically, the works waver between realism and abstraction. Joanna’s work draws on her family connection with printing and a preoccupation with the processes involved in the reproduction of imagery. Her work has a mechanical feel which often negates its handmade processes.
Joanna Lamb’s works are included in prominent collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Parliament House, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Macquarie University, La Trobe University, Edith Cowan University, The University of Western Australia and Murdoch University.
Learn more about the Mentorship Award
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. All artworks must have been created in the last year and not previously exhibited.
2D artworks are a maximum size of 100cm x 100cm and 3D artworks are max 50x50x 50cm
All artworks are for sale and the City of Belmont charges a 25% commission on the sale of all artworks. It is optional for artists aged 11 to 17 to have their work for sale.
No. The City is limiting the number of entries into the award and all entries will be reviewed by a Selection Panel with artists being advised if they have been accepted into the award.
The City of Belmont Art Award aims to provide artists of all abilities and experience the opportunity to participate in a community exhibition that celebrates the creative talents of local and WA artists.
The City does not charge an entry fee to participate in the Award, and in order to manage the logistics of exhibiting the Award it implements a selection process to refine applications to a maximum of 300 artists to be accepted into the award.
Whilst there is no curatorial theme, the selection process aims to include a selection of artworks by youth and emerging artists, local Belmont artists as well as experienced and professional artists.
The award is judged by two independent arts professionals who are experts in the field.
The first prize is a $10,000 acquisitive award, with the winning work coming into the City of Belmont Civic Art Collection. The remaining prizes are non-acquisitive and will be available for sale throughout the exhibition.