A prize for art history students from across Australia, supported by the Power Institute through its "Powered by Power" initiative.
Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the reef, 2015-2016, UN conference, Paris and 2019, MCA, Sydney.
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.