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Scope of the Database
Yarp provides detailed information about arts prizes, residencies, scholarships, grants and fellowships from around Australia. From the smallest regional arts prizes right through to the largest, high profile prizes, prize monies vary from $50 to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth.
There are currently 1018 records in the database. Each record includes prize opening date, prize closing date, exhibition date, prize pool total, entry fee costs, whether prize is acquisitive or not, prize website, entry restrictions, details of the prize including breakdown of individual prize categories and dollar values for each, medium/s of prize, genre of prize, organisation contact details, venue contact details, individual contact details where available.You will have access to all of this information as a Premium subscriber.
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Basic Search
Yarp searches by keyword in basic search mode. Just type in what you are looking for. Basic Search does not use boolean searching (and/or/not). Use Advanced Search for boolean searching.
Some search examples:
- Searching for the term indigenous will bring up all prizes with the word indigenous in the title or description of the prize. Try also searching for aboriginal or aboriginal and torres strait islander to find other relevant indigenous prizes.
- Search by prize name or title e.g. Helen Lempriere
- Search for prizes by medium e.g printmaking will find all prizes with all instances of the word printmaking in the title or description.
Problems? The most common search problem is misspelling. Make sure you have spelled what you are looking for correctly.
See our tutorial section for further help with searching.
Advanced Search
If you have not subscribed for Premium Access, you can do limited advanced searching. This includes the following:
- At least one of the words e.g. aboriginal
- All the words e.g. aboriginal and torres strait islander
- As a phrase e.g. Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award
- Without the words e.g. torres strait islander
- Exclude $0 prize values - this will exclude all prizes that don't have a dollar value attached to the award. These are mostly residencies.
Please note, common 2 and 3 letter words are filtered out of all search criteria except for the field "as a phrase" when using advanced search. Results are ordered by relevance. The scope of relevance increases as you employ more than one search field in Advanced Search.
See our tutorial section for further help with searching.
Differences Between Premium vs Public Searches
All public searches are limited to 30 results. This limit is lifted for Subscribers. If you have subscribed for Premium Access you can also limit your searches using the following:
- Exclude records with closing date already passed
- Only show records with a valid webpage
- By medium
- By genre
- By entry closing month
- By State e.g. NSW
You will need to be logged in to take advantage of the Premium search service.
See our tutorial section for further help with searching.
