2024 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: Jo S. Stacey
Title: Behind These Eyes
Medium: Oil and Acrylic on Canvas

2ND PRIZE OVERALL
Artist: Roy Hansen
Title: Steel Cuts
Medium: Metal works

1ST PRIZE EASEL WORKS
Artist: Shontelle Lewis
Title: Birdsville Fishing Charter
Medium: Acrylic

2ND PRIZE EASEL WORKS
Artist: Michelle Gray & Raelene Bock
Title: Inflorescence: Delta
Medium: Handblown glass, metal, timber

1ST PRIZE WORKS ON PAPER
Artist: Freda Surgenor
Title: Welding Worker
Medium: Watercolour

2ND PRIZE WORKS ON PAPER
Artist: Susan Van den Brandt
Title: Tidal Gift
Medium: Monoprint – 4 plate print

1ST PRIZE 3 DIMENSIONAL & FIBRE WORKS
Artist: Jody Keyworth
Title: Hunting & Hiding
Medium: Pyrography on timber

2ND PRIZE 3 DIMENSIONAL & FIBRE WORKS
Artist: Christine Holden
Title: Sea Pod
Medium: Marine debris rope and tackle

1ST PRIZE DIGITAL WORKS
Artist: Shirley Hitschmann
Title: The Reflections of a Medusa
Medium: Framed fine art matted print

2ND PRIZE DIGITAL WORKS
Artist: Len Hurley
Title: Morphing Chandelire
Medium: MP4 file

EMERGING ARTIST AWARD
Artist: Tessa Cheetham
Title: The Collection
Medium: Black fine-liner pen on paper

HANGERS’ AWARD
Artist: Shana Gelin
Title: The Ranches’ Lost Tree Spirits
Medium: Wet felted fibres (mixed)

LOCAL ARTIST AWARD
Artist: Kim Cooke
Title: White Bait
Medium: Modelling paste on canvas

MARINE ENVIRONMENT AWARD
Artist: David Kerr
Title: Sun Set Turtle
Medium: Scrap metal, marine debris

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
Artist: Jody Keyworth
Title: Breaking Boundaries
Medium: Charcoal on paper

QUILTERS AWARD
Artist: Lynne Tye
Title: Go to Woe to Wow
Medium: Quilting

1ST PRIZE HIGH SCHOOL AWARD
Artist: Isla Meaarns
Title: Kookaburra
Medium: Watercolour

1ST PRIZE PRIMARY SCHOOL AWARD
Artist: Charlie Worthington
Title: Tonal Study of ‘Sleeping Fox’
Medium: Pencil