Multicultural Art Festival 2025

About the Open Call

The Multicultural Art Festival 2025, running from October 26 to November 25, 2025, at the Creative Asia Art Centre, is a vibrant convergence of cultures, traditions, and contemporary visions. The festival aims to connect, inspire, and transcend differences, showcasing art as a living bridge across cultures, identities, and generations. Programs include the Multicultural Art Fair, Solo Exhibitions, Collaborative Showcases, and Australasian Artist Talks. The theme 'Layered Thinking' explores identity, complexity, and the coexistence of multiple perspectives, inviting artists and audiences to consider how identity is constructed through overlapping histories, cultural memories, and lived experiences. It embraces complexity as a creative force, encouraging works that reveal hidden layers, challenge surface assumptions, and reflect the diversity of voices within multicultural societies.

What is Offered

One-Year CAF Membership and associated benefits, Certificate of Participation, invitation to an Exclusive Opening Event with professional photography, Official publicity and promotion (social media exposure, press release), high-quality printed materials (labels, wall signage, individual page in brochure, artist statement), Custom Invitation, Access to gallery space with curatorial support (public guided tours, small artist talks), Full support for installation, deinstallation, labour, submission processing, coordination, and artist communication, Media Kit (digital assets), Online Listing on gallery’s official website and exhibition archive, and Sales Support (basic sales handling and payment processing).

Requirements

Open to artists of all disciplines and cultural backgrounds, including multicultural, migrant, or diverse cultural backgrounds. Local, interstate, or international artists of all ages. Artworks in any medium are welcome, including painting, photography, installation, sculpture, textile, digital media.

How to Apply

Applications must include: Your name, email, address, contact number, a short artist bio (max 150 words), an artist statement explaining how your work relates to the theme (max 300 words), 1–3 images of your work (high-res JPEGs), artwork details (title, medium, dimensions, year, sale status). All applications should be written in English. Submissions must be made on or before 19 October 2025 via the provided application link.