A huge thank you to our sponsors, guest judges, applicants, our Kudos Coordinator Carmen, and our Kudos Committee for making this year’s awards possible ❤️️

The Kudos Emerging Awards seek to recognise and support innovation and talent across all disciplines at UNSW AD in three categories: Emerging Artist and Designer, Emerging Curator and Emerging Writer.

The annual Kudos Awards has always featured the most noteworthy local upcoming arts practitioners, and is often the first big step in propelling emerging artists careers to the next level. For audiences, the Kudos Awards has always been the way to see and support the most exciting, upcoming, emerging talents in town! 

Finalists will present their artworks alongside artwork descriptions and artist bios, not solely displaying an individual artwork in a gallery with no description. We wanted to see how artworks fit in relation to an artists' body of work and artistic practice that they're on the path to building!

The Kudos Award is open to all UNSW Arts, Design, & Architecture students across any stage or kind of degree. All applications have been assessed by the 2023 Kudos Committee, and our final online exhibition will be judged by external industry guest judges who will award the major prizes.


EMERGING ARTIST + DESIGNER AWARD
$1500 from Arc Creative and the opportunity to exhibit with Kudos as part of the 2023 Creative Program
GUEST JUDGE: Jayanto Tan

EMERGING CURATOR AWARD
$1500 from Arc Creative and the opportunity to be supported and exhibit with Kudos as part of the 2023 Creative Program
GUEST JUDGE: Daniel Mudie Cunningham

EMERGING WRITER AWARD
$1500 from Arc Creative and the opportunity to be mentored to develop new piece to be published in Runway Journal
GUEST JUDGE: Georgia Hayward

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
$500 from Arc Creative