Invitation Art Prize

Shortlisted artists: Tom Blake, Sam Bloor, Bruno Booth, Erin Coates, Sarah Elson, Tim Meakins, Sherry Quiambao, Andy Quilty, Anna Louise Richardson, and Tyrown Waigana. 

The Invitation Art Prize is a $25,000 acquisitive award for West Australian professional artists. Across its long-standing history, it has showcased high-calibre contemporary artists working across different practices, career stages and lived experiences. The winning artwork is acquired into the City of Joondalup’s Art Collection and is a significant addition to the collection’s character and identity.  

There have been 25 winning artworks since the prize was launched in 1998. In a new era of the program from 2025, ten selected artists will be shortlisted and paid a fee to develop a new body of work. Historically, the prize has been exhibited in one of the City’s major shopping centres. This year, in an exciting change, the exhibition will be featured in the City’s new gallery space, Joondalup Contemporary Art Gallery.  

The new program attracted a competitive pool of 142 entries, which were reviewed by an independent selection panel including: Abdul Abdullah, Australian multi-disciplinary artist; Carly Lane, Curator Indigenous Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia; and Katherine Wilkinson, Program Director, Fremantle Biennale. 

 Collectively, the shortlisted artists span a broad cross section of practices from drawing, painting, and print, sculpture and installation, metalsmithing and jewellery, illustration and animation, and photography, video and film.

 Artists are in the running to win the $25,000 Acquisitive Prize and be acquired into the City’s prestigious art collection. The winner will be announced at the Award Ceremony on Saturday 11 October, 6pm. 

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For further queries please contact the City’s Visual Arts Officer on visualarts@joondalup.wa.gov.au or 9400 4000

Image: William Leggett, Module Exo 3 (A Knowledge of Gravity), 2022. City of Joondalup Art Collection, purchased from the 2022 Invitation Art Prize. Image courtesy of the artist.