2025 WINNERS.

This year, we celebrated outstanding artistic achievements and creative brilliance. Discover the winners who shaped 2025 with their inspiring talent and dedication to the arts.

1ST PRIZE OVERALL
Artist: Marlies Oakley
Title: Australian Story
Medium: Handcut Collage

2ND PRIZE OVERALL
Artist: Dan Carlyon
Title: Afraid? Knot!
Medium: Recycled Rope & S/S

1ST PRIZE EASEL WORKS
Artist: Ping Carlyon
Title: Cheat Day #1
Medium: Oil on Wood Board

2ND PRIZE EASEL WORKS
Artist: Fiona Nicholls
Title: Afternoon Delight
Medium: Acrylic Paint on Canvas

1ST PRIZE 3 DIMENSIONAL & FIBRE WORKS
Artist: Christine Holden
Title: There’s Plastic in the Water
Medium: Marine Waste Recycled Wire

2ND PRIZE 3 DIMENSIONAL & FIBRE WORKS
Artist: Kym Cunningham
Title: Silly-Sausage Guards the House
Medium: Mixed Media - 90% recycled

1ST PRIZE WORKS ON PAPER
Artist: Jo Williams
Title: Normanton Landscape
Medium: Artist Book Collaged

2ND PRIZE WORKS ON PAPER
Artist: Leanne Cole
Title: Headland
Medium: Reduction Lino Print

1ST PRIZE DIGITAL WORKS
Artist: Kai Price
Title: The Sun
Medium: Digital Print

2ND PRIZE DIGITAL WORKS
Artist: Geraldine Smith
Title: Emu
Medium: Photography

EMERGING ARTIST AWARD
Artist: Alix O’Neil
Title: Surface Tension
Medium: Watercolour

LOCAL ARTIST AWARD
Artist: Katie McAuliffe
Title: The Dance
Medium: Acrylic Paint on Canvas

MARINE ENVIRONMENT AWARD
Artist: Jen Hollstein
Title: Neptune’s Delusion
Medium: Marine Debris

HANGERS’ AWARD
Artist: Kairen Kerr
Title: Waiting on the Show
Medium: Plaster, Wood, Wire

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
Artist: Jo Stacey
Title: The Kings Commission
Medium: Oils

1ST PRIZE HIGH SCHOOL AWARD
Artist: Teylah Rowlands
Title: Red Footed Boobie
Medium: Mixed Media

1ST PRIZE PRIMARY SCHOOL AWARD
Artist: Lincoln Bergamaschi
Title: Life with Monsters
Medium: Mixed Media