Open Name: Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2026

HOTA, Home of Arts is proud to announce the return of the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award in 2026. As Queensland’s richest acquisitive photographic prize, the $25,000 award and exhibition platforms artists from throughout the nation working inside the broad discipline of latest images. 

Previous winners embrace Polly Borland, Merilyn Fairskye, Shaun Gladwell, Polixeni Papapetrou, Darren Sylvester and Justine Varga. 

We invite submissions reflecting the normal and expanded medium, together with photocollage, sculpture, projection, set up and cameraless images. 

This 12 months’s finalists shall be chosen by a panel of esteemed judges together with 2018 Award winner Tamara Dean, Director of UNSW Galleries José Da Silva and unbiased author and curator Mikala Tai. 

Entries are open to all Australian residents and everlasting residents aged 18 years or over on the time of entry. 

How to Enter 

Access the digital entry kind right here: Entry Form 

Once began, it can save you your progress by hitting “Save” and return to finish later. All entries are to be submitted by Mon 17 Aug, midnight. 

For enquiries or entry help, please contact hotagallery@experiencegoldcoast.com 

Entry Fee 

To help participation, the entry charge has been lowered to $15 AUD. 

Mob Tix can be found for $10 AUD. Mob Tix are a particular allocation of tickets that enables First Nations peoples from each inside and outdoors Australia entry to a reduced charge to sure applications. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander folks from Australia are eligible, in addition to Māori, Pasifika and First Nations folks from different nations.