Telstra NATSIAA is open to any Australian resident who identifies as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

Entry is free.

Artists are not required to have an agent, be represented by an art centre or gallery.

Please select a category according to the medium of your artwork.

• Telstra Bark Painting Award: any artwork created on bark

• Telstra General Painting Award: any painting

• Telstra Works on Paper Award: any artwork on paper, including photography, print making, drawing etc.

• Wandjuk Marika Memorial Three-Dimensional Award: any 3 dimensional artwork, including sculptures, installations, weavings etc.

• Telstra Multimedia Award: any multidisciplinary and or digital work

Please indicate whether or not you are an emerging artist. The Telstra Emerging Artist Award is awarded from any category to an artist working within their first five years of practice who has not exhibited in a major institution.

The Telstra Art Award of $50,000 is awarded to the work considered by judges to be the most outstanding work across all categories.

If you are having trouble deciding which category your work fits into, please contact our Exhibition Officer (details at the bottom of this page) and discuss your entry. They will be able to advise you.

Each artist can only submit one work.

A work is not able to be submitted into Telstra NATSIAA if it has been shown in an exhibition or made available for sale either in a gallery or online.

Only one high resolution digital image of the work is required. You can provide a detail of the work, or an alternate view if the work if a 3 dimensional object.

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​Please make sure that the image of the work is as clear and high quality as possible. It is the digital image of your work that the judges will be looking at when they select the finalists for exhibition, so a good image is essential.

Only once finalists have been selected and announced. If your entry has been successful, the artwork will need to arrive between 29 April - 24 May 2019.

Please call MAGNT should you require any assistance at all with the online form.

Because we have so many entries in the Telstra NATSIAA, only the works chosen as finalists are included in the exhibition. Between 60 and 75 finalists are selected.

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MAGNT’s Exhibition Officer will be in contact to let you know if you are a finalist or not.

Judges are selected annually by MAGNT and have included artists, curators, directors, art critics, journalists and arts advocates. Judges for 2019 will be announced at the end of April, 2019.

The winners will be announced at the opening awards celebration held at MAGNT in Darwin in August.

If you are a winner of either the Telstra Art Award or one of the category awards, MAGNT will notify you at least one week prior to the opening of the exhibition. You will be invited to travel to Darwin to accept your award and attend the opening events. Your travel costs will be paid for you by MAGNT.

Contact: Exhibitions Officer

natsiaa@magnt.net.au

08 8999 8287