Terms and Conditions

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MAKE Award TERMS AND CONDITIONS

PRIZE DETAILS

The winner of the MAKE Award will receive AU$35,000 cash.

The second prize winner will receive AU$10,000 cash.

The MAKE Award is a non-acquisitive award.

The finalists will be exhibited at Australian Design Centre, Sydney and then tour to two other venues.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS AND ELIGIBILITY

Entry is free and can be submitted through the makeaward.au website between the entry open and entry close dates, 12:01am AEST, 9 December 2024 and 5 May 2025 11:59pm AEST.

The term ‘Artist’ in these terms and conditions refers to an artist, designer, maker or craftsperson.

Only one entry will be accepted per Artist.

Submissions must include all artwork details and professional standard photography of the work.

To be eligible, an Artist must be an Australian resident of any kind, including temporary resident; must be over 18, and must not be an immediate family member of the prize judges or donors.

Artists who are employed by, either in a paid or volunteer capacity, or affiliated with sponsors of the Australian Design Centre are not excluded and are encouraged to enter.

The focus of the Award is innovation in design and contemporary craft. The entry can include ceramics, glass, woodwork, furniture, metalwork, textiles and fibre, lighting design and contemporary jewellery. It can also incorporate other materials, functional or non-functional, and be free-standing, wall-mounted or suspended (with a weight limit for any work requiring suspension of 8kg).

The entered work must have been made in the 18 months prior to entering it into the prize, it must have been in continuous ownership of the Artist. The entry must not have been exhibited elsewhere and, upon submission, the artist warrants that the design is their original and individual work. Where the entrant has entered in more than one competition, if selected as a finalist for the MAKE Award the entrant must make a decision whether to accept inclusion within 24 hours of notification of selection.

Finalists may be contacted for comment by authorised representatives of the Award or the general media.

Entrants acknowledge that the entry should not be promoted on websites, social media or in print publications prior to being advised whether they have been selected as a finalist and finalists should not publicise their entry prior to the exhibition launch.

The Judging Panel reserves the right to refuse an entry that does not comply with all applicable entry criteria.

It will be the responsibility of the Artist, if selected as a finalist, to transport the work to the Australian Design Centre, Sydney NSW by Friday 12 September 2025 for the exhibition.

FINALISTS/WINNER

Pre-selection of finalists will occur in July 2025.

From entries submitted online, finalists will be chosen by the Judging Panel. These finalists will become the exhibited and eligible finalists for the MAKE Award.

Judging for the Award will occur in October 2025 in Sydney, NSW.

The decision of the judges is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.

Finalists will be notified and invited to the Launch of the MAKE Award exhibition at the Australian Design Centre in Sydney on Friday 10 October 2025; where the winners will be publicly announced.

JUDGING CRITERIA

Each entry needs to be a representative example of the excellence of the Artist’s body of work, and further, it must demonstrate innovation and/or an extension of the artist’s practice in technique or material.

The winning work will be selected based on innovation, both in idea and use of material; how it displays excellence in design, making and/or craft, and its execution within contemporary practice.

The Judging Panel will assess all entries against the above stated criteria. Each judge has been selected for their knowledge and experience, and for their willingness to volunteer and commit time to a non-paid role as judge.

Judges for 2025 are:

Lisa Cahill, Australian Design Centre
Simone LeAmon, National Gallery of Victoria
Brian Parkes, JamFactory
Vipoo Srivilasa, 2023 MAKE Award Winner

Details of the judges are listed on the website makeaward.au

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

GENERAL

The Artist will be furnished with an Exhibition Loan Agreement if they are selected as a finalist in the Award.

THE EXHIBITION

All finalists and winners will have their work exhibited at Australian Design Centre, Sydney, JamFactory, Adelaide and one other venue to be confirmed. Information about the tour will be listed on makeaward.au.

Works will be available for sale to the public and if unsold will be returned to the Artist at the end of the tour.

All work displayed will be at the risk of and insured by Australian Design Centre after condition reporting and formal acknowledgment of receipt by Australian Design Centre.

If a work is lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed whilst it is under control of Australian Design Centre. Australian Design Centre will notify the Artist immediately and shall be liable to pay him/her/them the stated Artist’s insurance price. No repairs will be carried out without first consulting the Artist.

Australian Design Centre is responsible for all exhibition costs including:
- design and production of exhibition including display, labelling and signage

- freight and transit insurance in situ and between touring venues

- promotion of the exhibition and associated programming.

TRANSPORT

Finalists work will be delivered to Australian Design Centre at the expense of the Artist with insurance covered by the Artist.

Exhibited works not sold will be returned to the Artist at the expense of Australian Design Centre within six weeks of the exhibition closing with insurance covered by Australian Design Centre. For Artists based in Sydney, the work will, if unsold, be available for collection from the Australian Design Centre, Sydney.

Australian Design Centre will be responsible for arranging and paying for the cost of safe transport between the touring exhibition venues, as well as any transit insurance required. Australian Design Centre will ensure that installation, packing and handling of the work is carried out as per any instructions provided by the Artists. All works must be received in Sydney packaged suitably for freight between exhibition venues.

SALES, COMMISSION AND GST

The Artist must specify the wholesale price (including the GST component if the Artist is registered for GST).

Australian Design Centre calculates a retail price by including commission of 30% on all works offered for sale.

Australian Design Centre reserves the right to adjust prices slightly to allow for sensible rounding of retail price.

In accordance with Federal law, Australian Design Centre must also calculate and add 10% GST of the wholesale price plus 30% commission, to calculate the final retail price. When a work is sold, 10% GST is payable by Australian Design Centre to the Australian Tax Office whether or not The Artist is registered for GST.

Once an Artist’s work is sold the Artist will supply Australian Design Centre with an invoice (tax invoice where appropriate) with the Artist’s wholesale price including GST (where applicable). Australian Design Centre will pay the Artist the stated wholesale plus GST as per the invoice within 60 days after the end of the month by direct debit to the bank account specified on the invoice.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND MORAL RIGHTS

Australian Design Centre and Touring Venues will acknowledge the finalist in all promotional material produced for the Exhibition and whenever the Work is displayed or used.

Australian Design Centre will not make any changes to an artwork without first obtaining the Artist’s written permission and not alter, modify, or destroy an artwork nor do anything which might compromise the integrity of an artwork.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright in the work remains the property of the Artist and such rights will not be sold, licensed, or otherwise dealt with by Australian Design Centre and Touring Venues without written authorisation from the Artist.

Finalists shall grant Australian Design Centre a non-exclusive license to photograph for reproduction any finalists for publicity, website, archival and/or exhibition catalogue or reporting and advocacy purposes before, during and after the exhibition until 31 December 2026 or, in the case of website , annual reporting and advocacy, in perpetuity in relation to the MAKE Award.

The Artist warrants that they are the owner of any copyright comprised by their work and images of their work – or where the Artist is not the owner of any copyright, all necessary rights clearances have been granted and appropriate attributions made.

Neither the exhibition of the Artist’s work nor its promotion will infringe the rights, including copyright moral and trademark rights, of any person or organisation.

Neither the Artist’s work nor its promotion will be defamatory, or breach the provisions of any contract, comprise contempt of court or passing off, be misleading or deceptive, or amount to a breach of confidence or a breach of privacy.

All information given or to be given to Australian Design Centre in relation to the Artist and their work (including financial information) is and will be up to date and accurate.

INDIGENOUS CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Australian Design Centre acknowledges the entries may include works that embody Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property (ICIP) as it refers to all the rights that First Nations people have, and want to have, to protect their traditional arts and culture.

MAKE Award will not display or use any artwork in a context that might be considered by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community to be appropriate, derogatory, degrading or offensive.

When displaying or reproducing an artwork, MAKE Award will make an attribution in respect of Indigenous Culture or Intellectual Property in artworks in accordance with the entrant’s notification on the entry form.

MAKE Award acknowledges in the event of an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander artist’s death, the subsequent display of their likeness may be culturally inappropriate and that, upon notification of the artist’s death and receipt of a request to do so from a member of the artist’s family or representive, agrees to remove any likeness or images of the deceased artitst from any promotional material or publication under its control, to the extent that it is reasonably practical.

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