Eloquence Art Prize 2025
The Eloquence Art Prize ® is an annual national public speaking challenge open to students from participating universities across Australia. It rewards the best art talk on French and Australian cultural ties. The theme is specific and different each year.
The 2025 theme is "Art and Environment, France and Australia: Our oceans in danger". Students are invited to compare two artists from any Art discipline (visual art, literature, philosophy, architecture, music …) one Australian, one French, and analyse how their sensibility to nature has impacted their artworks (see here for a non-exhaustive list of artists).
The Prize winner will be selected via a three-stage process:
- In Stage 1, applicants will submit to their University a "Summary Paper", outlining a proposed 10-minute talk addressing the Prize theme. At each University, a panel will review these and select three short-listed applicants.
- In Stage 2, the short-listed applicants will be invited to submit a recording of their complete 10-minute talk, and from these the panels will each select a single representative for their University.
- In Stage 3, the representatives from all participating Universities will compete for the final prize, delivering their talks live (or, if not possible, via their recordings).
STAGE 1 APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN (DUE 15 MAY)
Applicants wishing to be considered for selection as a University of Sydney representative must submit a “Summary Paper”: the written summary of a 10-minute talk addressing the Prize theme.
Summary Papers must contain:
- Student's contact details and photo;
- Student's self-introduction and level of study (50 words max); and
- Summary of the talk (400 words max).
Summary Papers will be evaluated according to these criteria:
- Respect of the words limit;
- Relevance and interest of the talk in relation to the Prize theme; and
- Well written and structured argument.
Due date: 11:59PM, 15 May 2025.
ELIGIBILITY
Students must meet the following criteria to be eligible to participate in the challenge:
a) Students must be undertaking study within the Arts or Humanities disciplines.
b) Students must be in their final year of a Bachelor degree, or must be Honours, Graduate Certificate, Masters, or PhD students.
c) Students must be enrolled for the first semester of the calendar year in one of the participating Institutions (cf. Appendix 1: universities participating in the 2025 Prize and their coordinators).
d) Students must be over the age of 18 and able to legally enter a contract under these T&C.
See full terms and conditions here.
MORE INFORMATION
For information about the Prize, including full eligibility criteria and Terms and Conditions, please visit cultureplus.com.au/eloquence-art-prize