2025 Spencil Calenders
This year's Spencil Art Prize was another extraordinary showcase of Australia's youngest artists. What better way to enjoy the winning artworks and a gorgeous selection of favourites than in this glorious calendar, each month in 2025 dedicated to celebrating young artists' creative wonder!
The Spencil 2025 Calendar is a large spiral bound fine art wall calendar, printed on premium paper. All months are single sided so each of the images are perfect for both framing and paper crafts, making them beautiful lasting gifts.
Not only does this calendar turn your daily planning into a visually enriching and inspiring experience for your whole family, these artworks are truly frame-worthy so we've made it easy to you - each artwork perforated for you to keep and appreciate year after year.
Drumroll, please! The time has come to announce the champions of the 2024 Spencil Writers Prize! Your entries were pure magic, leaving us in awe and making it a real challenge to pick just two! Our Spencil Judges and team were enchanted by the way you wielded words. Watch out, world—there’s a new generation of writing wizards, and they're casting some serious literary spells!
Thank you to everyone who entered! You're a creative dynamo, and we can't wait to see where your boundless brilliance will take us next! Keep dazzling, keep innovating, and keep shining like the bright star you are!
Chelsea Zhang - age 6
Dad, Together Forever
Chelsea says "My dad is a nurse, and this year he started working in the operating room at a hospital in Townsville. Meanwhile, my mom, my sister, and I live in Brisbane. We all miss Dad terribly, and I often dream about him. I wish he could come back home every day to be with us, take me out to play, go shopping, read books together, and so on. Whenever we video call, Dad always tells us how much he misses us."
Katie Park - age 12
Gratefulness
Katie says, "Everyone is trying to live life to the fullest. While days may seem peaceful and ordinary, we never know what's going to happen next. That's why it's important to be grateful for your family every day."
$2000+ worth of prizes!
Our Picassos have won awesome prizes in their age category: 8 Years & Under and 9 to 13 Years.
There are two major prizes up for grabs, valued at over $400 each. Plus runner-up prizes for another 10 kids!
In addition to that, Spencil selected "Staff pick of the week" offering every entrant even more of a chance to secure some Spencil Goodies!
TWO MAJOR PRIZE PACKS!
There are two major prize packs up for grabs for the age categories 8 Years & Under and 9 to 13 Years.
Each major prize pack is bursting with:
$100 cash prize provided as a debit gift card, able to be used wherever major credit cards are accepted
School supplies in their favourite design!
A collaboration with Spencil’s in-house designers to produce one or more Spencil products in their design. Winning artists will work with Spencil designers in choosing appropriate products and further developing the designs to be best applied to those products.
Colouring book and activities for year-round inspiration!
Plus 10x $50 Spencil Dollar Vouchers per category for our shortlists winners!
How to enter
This year, children up to 13 years can enter any form of art they like! From paintings, drawings and sketches to costume masks, play-doh creations or sewing skills - we want to see it all! ...Just hold off on any written artwork, you can save those for the Spencil Writers Prize later in the year!
Let your mini Picasso's imagination run free and get them to create their masterpiece!
Click here to fill out your entry form and upload a picture of your child's art. It's as simple as that!
Let the magic begin
Carrie McCarthy is a writer, curator and Collections Registrar at Griffith University Art Museum, overseeing the second largest public art collection in Queensland. Independently, Carrie has curated contemporary art exhibitions for World Science Festival, Queensland Museum, the Queensland College of Art, TRACE Festival, and Mercy Heritage Centre. Her writing has been published in Mamamia, Vault Magazine, Huffington Post Australia, The Big Smoke, Art Almanac, Art Monthly, and QAGOMA’s ArtLines, and she regularly blogs under the pen name Cultural Flanerie. An experienced public speaker, Carrie was the Arts presenter on ABC Radio Brisbane’s Drive program from 2014-17.
Sarah is the Gallery Officer at Redcliffe Art Gallery, where she supports gallery operations, visitor experience and public programs. She has worked in the visuals arts sector for over 15 years, primarily in project coordination and public engagement roles. In her independent work she is co-designing and delivering arts and accessibility initiatives, particularly for audiences who are blind or have low vision. She is also a committee member of the Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA), Queensland branch, which is a peak advocacy body representing museums and galleries.
