The Australian Body Art Awards has become Australia's Face & Body Painting event of the year!!! It is the premier annual event of the Australian Face & Body Art community. The ABAA started in 2010 and is a national face & body painting competition that is affiliated with The World Body Painting Association. On the 6th of May 2016 a Body Painter of the Year award will be presented at the Show/Awards night in Melbourne.

The ABAA is not funded by any grants nor does it have an financial sponsorship. To honour the finest Body Painter in Australia we would like to send the winner to the World Body Painting Festival in Austria to compete in early July 2016.
 
Body Artist Jessica Watson Miller
Model Tara Gallop - Brennan

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The Australian Body Painter of the year will have flights paid from any capital city in Australia to Klagenfurt Austria in order to compete at The World Body Painting Festival in early July 2016. .  Any additional funds will be used to also assist or cover accommodation costs.

I see challenges as opportunities for growth.  Each time the The Australian Body Art Awards has been presented with challenges it has grown bigger.  i am aware however that the painters that compete at the ABAA put in enormous effort and expense to travel to Melbourne and a great deal of time to create their competition show pieces.  I feel that they deserve much better prizes than we have managed so far.  The aim is to provide one person with the opportunity to represent Australia at the World Body Painting Festival based on their skill rather than affordability.