Artist Name: STEPHANIE NAOMI PETER

Artwork Title: IMPRINTED

Medium: Acrylic Paint

Size: 120 x 120cm

Price: $5000

About the Artist:

Stephanie is a Visual Arts Teacher and Independent Artist currently based in the historic regional town of Charters Towers, Queensland. She has lived, and worked in many countries including India, China, Mexico, and the Middle East. It is safe to say; she is a traveller by nature. Her life experiences continue to contribute to the ever changing inspiration of her work. She often explores themes relating to the balance between presence and absence, memory and loss, inviting viewers to also reflect on their experiences within the passage of time.

Artist Statement:

The colours and fragility of a beta fish are mesmerising and wondrous, their movements creating a harmonious dance in their surroundings. They remind me of moments in my life, when I am filled with awe, and curiosity. In this piece, I aim to capture their qualities and frame their unique composition. By doing so, exploring the poignant reality that nothing lasts forever. It is a testament of the transient beauty and impermanence of life. Yet, amidst this transience, there is an inherent power in memory. We never forget the moments that truly shape us. My artwork honours our collective memory, reminding us of our humanity where our echoes of the past, reside in the present.

Artist Name: ROSIE LLOYD-GIBLETT

Artwork Title: THE CREEKS RUNNING CLEAR - GOONDIWINDI BIGAMBUL COUNTRY

Medium: acrylic, charcoal on canvas

Size: 150 x 120cm

Price: $4800

About the Artist:

Currently I am based on the Sunshine Coast and part of my Land Art practice is to connect with landscapes both local and over the Great Dividing Range and to the West. I enjoy working outdoors drawing and painting in the field seeking to capture the energy of the canopy and the undergrowth. The imagery I create is seasonal, energetic and sensory. I like to cover surfaces with lots of varying lines and vibrational marks. The colour palette depends on the time of year and the place; my ambition is to connect the viewer to the natural world and create awareness of its beauty and fragility.

Artist Statement:

'The creeks running clear' is a water inspired landscape painting from the Western Downs, QLD. Regenerative farm practices can create changes that flow throughout the landscape. This particular creek is on my sisters farm near Goondiwindi, Bigambul Country. The water has changed colour and sediment content has decreased by incorporating sustainable farm practices.

Artist Name: ALEXANDRA MATTHEWS

Artwork Title: UNFURLED AT WALKING PACE

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 95 x 126cm

Price: $11000

About the Artist:

Inviting interaction, Alexandra’s meticulous themes tempt viewers to step closer and be transported on a journey through her images. Painted in a hybrid of illustrative and realism, the detail is achieved through revisiting a view on neighbourhood walks, at varying times, waiting, and watching for changes. Architectural features are depicted with integrity, depth and dimensionality. 40 years living in and renovating a Red Hill cottage, Alexandra’s intimacy with her local urban landscape are evident.

Artist Statement:

Unfurling at walking pace, corners turned and familiar suburban scenes transition by season and light. Empty streets recall solitary walks uncovering hidden splendour of quintessential Brisbane inner city suburban life and architecture

Artist Name: RUSSELL SHAKESPEARE

Artwork Title: KYRA MANKTELOW

Medium: Photography

Size: 170 x 80cm

Price: $5000

About the Artist:

Russell is a freelance photographer working in digital and analogue, based on the Gold Coast, Australia.
His work has been published in many national magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, Qantas Magazine, Gourmet Traveller, The Deal, Q Weekend, The Good Weekend, Time, Australian Traveller, Financial Review and The Weekend Australian magazine, the Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and in books by, among others, The Magnum Foundation, Australian Geographic, The Museum of Brisbane and The Tim Fairfax Family Foundation.
Awards include The Moran Contemporary Photographic prize (four times Finalist, 2007-2014), Black and White Photographer of the Year (Documentary, Finalist, 2015), National Photographic portrait prize (two times Finalist, 2020,2011), Olive Cotton Exhibition (six times Finalist, 2006- 2021) and Walkley Award for Journalism (best news photograph, 1995)
Works in Collections include The Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, Redcliffe Art Gallery, and The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
Russell is a Ambassador for Leica Camera Australia

Artist Statement:

Kyra Manktelow is a Quandamooka woman and Brisbane based artist with a bachelor’s degree in Contemporary Australian Indigenous art.
In 2021, she was named Telstra Emerging Artist at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA).
Kyra is a multidisciplinary artist, working with a variety of mediums including sculpture, digital, printmaking and painting. 
Her work addresses her cultural heritage, knowledge, stories and traditions and she aims to invite the audience to connect and reflect. In this portrait, she’s portrayed side-on, gazing directly at that audience.
I photographed Kyra in her studio space at The Qld College of Art, Griffith University, South Bank,
Brisbane.
Walking into the space I was struck by the raw beauty of her work, and in particular the Possum
skin coat she had created.
When Kyra put on the coat and stood for the portrait I could sense the strength and pride in her,
it was a powerful moment.

Judge’s Comment:

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Artist Name: ZAIDE HARKER

Artwork Title: DRIED OUT

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 71 x 71cm

Price: $1800

About the Artist:

Large swathes of oil paint and gestural application with a palette knife characterize Zaide’s visceral style of painting. As the viewer moves about each piece, the thickly worked, textural strokes weave together in a variety of ways to imbue the subject with life. These swirling compositions invite the viewer to dive into the solitary state in which the paintings were completed.

A Huntington’s Disease diagnosis and experience as a disability support worker informs themes of identity, imperfection and decay. The undulating peaks and troughs of oil paint on canvas show the tumultuous application by a hand affected by chorea. The expressive nature of Zaide’s work thus reflects on rejection of pre-established narratives in the artists’ life.

Zaide lives in West End, Queensland and is a resident at Merivale Studios, South Brisbane. They have been featured and included in numerous exhibitions, prizes, articles and projects in Australia. They run the Colour Collective, accessible & inclusive art sessions for LGBTIQA+ young adults living with disability and neurodivergence.

Artist Statement:

Sunlight filtered through the blinds, casting stripes across my messy room, the ceiling fan slowly swirling overhead, more ornamental than functional in the sweltering bedroom. I squeeze my eyes shut as I scratch around for ibuprofen and the lukewarm glass of water by my bed. The pressure behind my eyes is gaining steam as I slowly regain consciousness and the swelling in my throat threatens to shut off oxygen supply. I can hardly believe it’s possible to feel this horrid and almost want to laugh at myself for how comically unwell I am.


The dried out flowers on my drawers perfectly represent my state of being post a night of consumption and serve as an analogy for most Australians come Sunday morning.


Drinking in Australia is deeply ingrained and often seen as a central aspect of social life. Cultural changes and soaring alcohol prices have seen a shift towards other vices to fill the void, such as vaping and recreational drug use. Regardless of the shape or form, Australia has a predilection for consumption. The feeling of coming down, shrivelling up and drying out on days that end in ‘y’ is unfortunately relatable and the source of many stories told over a beverage or two.

Artist Name: KATE MAREK

Artwork Title: MINJERRIBAH- NORTH GORGE WALK

Medium: Oil on polycotton, framed in oak

Size: 125 x 104cm

Price: $4000

About the Artist:

Kate Marek is primarily a landscape oil painter, drawing inspiration from her travels around Australia. Kate is fascinated the evocative power and painterly application of colour. She has been a practicing artist for over 20 years, with a background in visual arts, animation and teaching. Her work is held in collections worldwide.

Artist Statement:

I paint Minjerribah because of its energy. Fascinated by its unique vibrant colours and the wildness that perseveres there, I return to paint Straddie en plein air often. I endeavour to capture that moment where time slows, and you experience the island’s endless energy, and feel connected to something amazing.

Artist Name: SABINE VON GRAZ

Artwork Title: ‘SWEAR JAR’

Medium: Acrylic and oil on canvas

Size: 122 x 91cm

Price: $3200

About the Artist:

My art explores the human experience through family dynamics and childhood nostalgia. My daughter Ginger, often my muse and subject, inspires playful and humorous compositions that capture her youthful spirit and endearing adventures. Through her, I delve into the complexities of growing up with warmth and a touch of whimsy.

Artist Statement:

‘Swear Jar’ is a playful yet thought-provoking painting that delves into themes of guilt and innocence. It features a young girl, Ginger, who dreams of studying law and often questions right and wrong. She holds a transparent jar meant for collecting fines for swearing, but instead of coins, it contains small bunny sculptures and oversized bunny ears. The backdrop reveals a hedge shaped like two bunnies, with one missing its ears, replaced by clouds. This whimsical imagery raises the question: Is Ginger guilty of tearing off the bunny's ears, or is the bunny at fault for swearing?

Judge’s Comment:

Whimsical imagery! There is power and humour in this painting.

Artist Name: PHILLIP ROLTON

Artwork Title: THE TASMANIAN HIGH COUNTRY

Medium: Watercolour, Pen & Ink

Size: 63 x 123cm

Price: $6000

About the Artist:

Previously, I studied fine art at the Sydney Art School and Melbourne Gallery School under the tuition of John Brack with many years working as an abstract artist. I have recently enjoyed the challenge of the PhotoRealism genre whilst developing my style with watercolours, pen, ink & pencil.

I am drawn to compositions of the natural environment, city built form and ‘on street’ moments and utilise high resolution photography with my initial sketches as a foundation for my art works. A former career as a colour retoucher within the printing trade, furnished me with intricate brush and pen skills with life drawing classes by Jon Molvig in Brisbane, offered me an appreciation for form and interpretation.

Artist Statement:

Travelling through to Cradle Mountain, I was in awe of the magnificent vastness of the Tasmanian high country. The contrasting layers of alpine wildflowers, rocky outcrops and the distant blue mountains inspired me to produce a panorama art piece. Complex pen work defined the individuality of the plant species amongst the overall wilderness.

Judge’s Comment:

Impressive piece!

Artist Name: ALANA HAMPTON

Artwork Title: ASCENDING: PROMETHEUS' DREAM

Medium: dye sublimation on recycled polyester fabric

Size: 130 x 200cm

Price: $2800

About the Artist:

Alana’s practice spans four decades and interweaves a career as art maker and educator, the latter now relinquished to focus solely on making. Her Coombabah Wetlands Project, begun in 2009, is founded on an ever-evolving relationship with place, currently focused on a fragile fringe of remnant, almost ‘wild’ wetland hidden in clear sight in suburbia five minutes from my home on the Gold Coast.

Artist Statement:

Ascending: Prometheus' Dream holds together photographic traces of a twenty-year conversation with the Coombabah Wetlands. As a gathering tool, the camera has long been my companion to an intuitive, responsive engagement with place before returning to the studio, drawing, composing and transforming raw materials. This reveals something of its felt, hidden, archetypal nature.

Artist Name: KATHY SULLIVAN

Artwork Title: MATERIAL WORLD

Medium: Pastel

Size: 62 x 82cm

Price: $2500

About the Artist:

Kathy uses her art to draw attention to environmental issues. Currently she is focused on the enormous amount of fast fashion finding it's way to landfill.

Kathy is Director of Gap Artworks and President of Art Space Toowong.

Artist Statement:

A symbol of resilience, this egret nests amidst the discarded remnants of a consumerist culture.

The bird, perched on a synthetic fabric nest, highlights the environmental crisis of fast fashion overwhelming our planet.

Judge’s Comment:

Visually very becautiful. I would love to see this piece in person.

Artist Name: JULES FARRELL

Artwork Title: RIPARIAN PLAZA FROM CHARLOTTE ST

Medium: Oil on gessoboard

Size: 92 x 60cm

Price: $1450

About the Artist:

Jules Farrell is a contemporary Australian painter born and raised in Brisbane. For Jules, painting is more than capturing the physical beauty of the world. It is a way to reflect on the transcendent joy of creating and capturing the essence of the subject. He primarily paints with oil paint and loves the tactile nature of the medium.

Artist Statement:

Riparian Plaza, designed by the renowned architect Harry Seidler, is one of my favourite buildings in the city. My daily walk home along Edward Street offers a stunning view, particularly at the corner of Charlotte and Edward Street. In the late afternoon, the warm sunlight illuminates the tower's elegant form, creating a beautiful and dynamic scene.

Artist Name: CASEY CHARLES

Artwork Title: SACRILEGE

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 120 x 150cm

Price: $4950

About the Artist:

Casey Charles is a Queensland based, contemporary realist artist working with oils on canvas.
He paints landscapes, portraits, still life paintings and street scenes all in vivid, loud, bright colors.
These paintings have a distinctive personal style that emanate joy and are inspired by the people, places and the colors from his travels. Behind each of these works there lies the feeling of an equally intriguing story.

Artist Statement:

On a school excursion to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, 4 girls make the time to check on their social media profiles, while being surrounded by some of the most magnificent masterpieces of the Western World.
Sacrilege!!!

Judge’s Comment:

Well painted and has a little bit of tongue and cheek.

Artist Name: CATHERINE ABEL

Artwork Title: HALCYON 1932

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 137 x 137cm

Price: $14000

About the Artist:

Rendering beauty through the clarity of detail and the study of light is paramount to my work. I’m passionate about art history and how aesthetics can enhance our lives and uplift our emotions. My influences come from a combination of the academic disciplines taught during the Renaissance and the stylised motifs and geometric shapes of the Art Deco era.

Artist Statement:

In this work I wanted to wholly embraced a Streamline Moderne aesthetic. While not strictly adhering to the historical movement - think, French Riviera meets Miami South Beach - the pastel colours soften the clean, bold lines thereby creating balance between structure and fluidity. Playing with architectural forms, fractured facades and geometric ornament, I wanted to create a dynamic experience that invites the viewers to ‘dive in’.

I pay homage to the dazzling light of long golden summer days - suntanned swimmers, diamonds glittering on azure water, warm fruit-scented breezes, picnics on the sand; day gently succumbing to enchanted evening, cocktails on the terrace in subdued romantic light, dinners & dancing on yachts, fireworks, and jazz music.

Even though the composition challenges traditional perspective, it offers a dynamic, abstract interpretation of the style that contributed to the Streamline Moderne movement, imitating the flair and extravagance of the era. Living was easy under the bright umbrella of postwar nonchalance that sought to remove the din of reality after the losses of the Great War.

I painted Halcyon 1932 to celebrate my return to my birth state of QLD last year, after almost 40 years living elsewhere. It feels amazing to be home again.

Artist Name: BEATRICE PROST

Artwork Title: FOREST OF REMINISCENCE

Medium: Hand etched unique print on brushed aluminium, aluminium framed, diptych

Size: 91 x 130cm

Price: $5000

About the Artist:

I am a French born Australian mixed media artist creating from my Noosa hinterland studio. I am a geophysicist engineer who started a self taught art journey a decade ago. This has allowed me to develop some unique processes to obtain my personal dreamlike aesthetics on canvas and aluminium.
My aluminium art pieces harness my sense of wonderment when surrounded by Australian nature. From under the water to within a forest, I transform my own pictures into densely hand carved unique story telling artworks.

Artist Statement:

Forest of Reminiscence is like being in a long lost dream. We are invited to enter in the future of what our rain forest could become. The sepia monochromatic tones enhance this eerie connection to a little creek once framed by a mature forest. The preciosity of the creek is intensified by the energetic hand carved marks in the aluminium support. Hope remains as a stream of light framed by the ghosted trees. Those works are a call out to preserve our Sunshine Coast forests.

Artist Name: KRIS CUSH

Artwork Title: EMERALD CEDAR CREEK

Medium: Acrylic and ink on canvas

Size: 122 x 122cm

Price: $3200

Judge’s Comment:

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Artist Name: JANE GREALY

Artwork Title: GREEN BRIDGE UQ

Medium: watercolour on Arches paper

Size: 140 x 98cm

Price: $9700

About the Artist:

Jane Grealy is an Australian artist based in Queensland.

Grealy has enjoyed a successful career as an architectural illustrator since 1979, whose work is based on observation of both existing and imagined buildings, landscapes and spaces. Although her transition to the art world came much later, Grealy’s architectural training has allowed her to hone technical skills in perspective and art media, while providing a liberating outlet for her creative pursuits.

Since 2015, Grealy has gone on to feature as a finalist and prize winner for many national and international prizes. In 2019, Grealy was the winner of the Roy Skinner Works on Paper Award at Gympie Regional gallery. She was also named the People’s Choice and Highly Commended awards for Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize 2018, and was the winner of the Andrew Fisher Portrait Prize in the same year. Other notable awards include the People’s Choice award for JADA in 2016, and she has been a finalist in the Adelaide Perry Prize for drawing for four years consecutively (2016-2019, 2023) and most recently winning the Dobell Drawing Prize #23 in 2023.


Her work is represented in the Museum of Brisbane Collection, Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Collection, the Kedumba Collection of Australian drawings, National Art School, and in a number of private collections in Australia.

Artist Statement:

“The Green Bridge” is commonly used to describe the Eleanor Schonell Bridge which spans the Brisbane River at the University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus. The bridge was designed as a sustainable transport initiative through reducing vehicular traffic and using solar power for lighting. It is a massive 390 metre long concrete, cable-stayed structure. Hidden below the river surface are equally impressive footings of cpncrete piles driven into the river bed.

I have used a red wire frame structure to highlight the rigid architectural bridge structure and to contrast it against natural forms of the landscape on the banks of the river. We see the structure as permanent, but perhaps it is not? It will likely deteriorate over time, whereas the natural environment which we tend to view as temporary, may in reality be more permanent as it regenerates.

Artist Name: MAI NAITO

Artwork Title: ONEIRATAXIA

Medium: Digital Photography, Archival Inkjet on Matte Paper

Size: 42 x 60cm

Price: $450

About the Artist:

Mai Naito is a photographer born in Osaka, Japan. In 2015 she moved to Brisbane, Australia to study and grow in a new environment while fueling her passion for capturing moments.

Mai grew up in an environment blessed with nature and perceiving natural spaces through the lens of her imagination. Based on her personal childhood experiences of seeking beauty in nature, she developed an interest in expressing the emotional effects of natural spaces.

Through this approach she aims to connect with the audience through this emotion, encouraging them to rediscover a deep connection between themselves, their natural environment, and the very moment itself.

Artist Statement:

Oneirataxia explores my memories and imagination of the natural world through photography. Inspired by my personal childhood, the work visually depicts my recollections of daydreams when passing through natural spaces, exploring the midst between reality and fantasy. Through sheer visual pleasure and appreciation, Oneirataxia encourages the audience to perceive the world subjectively and emotionally to propel the discovery of a deeper connection between themselves and their natural environment.  
 
Personally, a memory is defined as an impression that melds visual fragments over the course of a moment. To create the piece, photographs of intriguing moments were taken while walking through natural scenery. These photographs were then digitally layered and compressed to form a single image - depicting a passage of time within a single frame and creating an entire memory that can be held in our hands and become physical again.  
 
By digitally layering several photographs it is intended that the work initially be read as a painting before closer inspection where the characteristics of digital technology and the photographic become apparent. By considering the role of photography and historical paintings in representing the natural landscape, and in turn, our recollections, Oneirataxia aims to question the opinion that photography is a mere technological process and a tool for depicting realism devoid of human soul or emotion.

Artist Name: TONI WARE

Artwork Title: FIRE OF SPRING

Medium: Oil on stretched canvas

Size: 76 x 100cm

Price: $6000

About the Artist:

From, out of curiosity, enrolling in an introduction to painting class a little over two years ago, Toni Ware is now a full time artist who achieves a realism style from the combination of a loose, painterly technique with the application of intense detail to her work. Painting exclusively with oils, Toni captures ceramics and antiques from her personal array of treasured ornaments collected from artisans, family heirlooms, thrift shops and travels throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. She creates movement and life to these subjects by including cuttings and produce from her garden and that of family and friends. Each of Toni’s painting tells a story of relationships and connections through the personal significance of the subjects she portrays. The capture of light, the sheen on a ceramic, dramatic shadows and fun, pops of colour are often showcased with neutral tones. Toni left a corporate career in 2023 to focus on her art. During her recent career as an artist, Toni's work has been displayed in galleries and exhibitions in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and regional Queensland. She has achieved recognition as a finalist and was awarded a Highly Commended prize in the 2024 Lethbridge Small Scale Exhibition, a finalist in the 2024 Rotary Brisbane Art Prize, a finalist in the 2024 Doyles Art Award and finalist in the Top 20 People’s Choice Award for Bluethumb’s 2023 Art Prize. She lives with her husband and three young, adult children in Brisbane and can often be found exploring the beaches and headlands of Lennox Head, Northern NSW.

Artist Statement:

“Fire of Spring” is inspired by the precious book belonging to my late Grandmother, Lucy Mitchell (nee Wilsesmith) aka Lucie in the book’s inscription. Lucy left me her writing journal containing pieces of poetry, cards and this tiny book, "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám”, by the 11th century Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet. As I assembled the pieces to compose this still life, seeking the balance of light, colour, shapes and grevilleas to symbolise the “fire" of spring, it dawned on me that each item either reflected or belonged to Lucy - her hairbrush, her ceramic vase, her love of poetry, Australian flora and, of course, her book. Lucy was progressive politically and intellectually and The Rubáiyát is reflective of her philosophy on the transience of life, to “seize the day” and to seek beauty and enrichment though literature and the arts.

Artist Name: ANNETTE RAFF

Artwork Title: BOUNDLESS

Medium: Mixed media

Size: 77 x 77cm

Price: $5280

About the Artist:

Annette Raff's mixed media paintings invite you to experience the unexpected, a visual journey that transcends boundaries and invites you to revel in the beauty of both the tangible and the fantastical. The integration of diverse elements and media create a captivating experience, which she describes as an intuitive process, free from predetermined outcomes; "A bit like doodling with brushes". Annette has been a past award recipient in the Lethbridge Small Art Awards. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art and has tutored in Art for the past 27 years. In 2023, she was honoured with a Royal Queensland Art Society Fellowship in recognition of her contributions to the field of art.

Artist Statement:

This piece is a vivid exploration of imagined abundance, where an overflowing vase of flowers bursts forth in a chaotic yet harmonious display. Both abstracted and detailed, the composition is entirely invented, evolving spontaneously as layers of media build upon one another. I continue in a wild energetic way until the flowers spill from their containment giving a sense of untamed growth while intricate in complexity.

Artist Name: TARA SPICER

Artwork Title: WILD HEARTS' WILL

Medium: Oil Painting

Size: 122 x 122cm

About the Artist:

"I believe that art has the power to create a shift within a person, not unlike a song or a well-read story, that changes the person from that moment on. Viewing a painting should be like taking a vacation with one's own sense of self... to a place that they would rather be." - Tara Spicer.

Tara's works present a subdued colour palette to allow the central figure to hold the power within each piece, giving a strength of presence within the piece as well as space for the viewer to place themselves within the artwork.

Artist Statement:

This artwork was created as a celebration of that aspect of certain young women who a self-assured, self-contained, independent with a dash of attitude. The design of this image was based on the likes of Amelia Earhart and other female pioneers in the field of aviation as well as a book titled 'The Bridge Across Forever'. The denim was a pure delight to paint as were every element that makes up this beautiful young lady that posed for the artist. This young lady herself is currently readying to fly the coup and make a homebase and an adventure abroad, so the whole experience was quite fitting! This piece is a celebration in many ways. It is a celebration of the young woman featured, as well as of the artist herself as her own family grows and matures, as well as the changes that are still unfolding for females the world over, whether it be progress or the global, sad, recognition of the opposite, depending on where you might reside. Fly baby, fly!

Artist Name: MILOMIRKA RADOVIC

Artwork Title: CROCHETED CORAL REEF 2.0

Medium: Acrylic Yarn

Size: 82 x 21cm

Price: $1500

About the Artist:

Milomirka (Millie) Radovic is a long time Brisbane resident. Now retired, with a life-long knitting and crochet hobby. From December 2020 to February 2021 I had a solo exhibition at Artisan, Bowen Hills. Now I have an exhibit ( “Garland Harmony” 200cm x 200 cm) at The Museum of Brisbane, City Hall.

Artist Statement:

This artwork is inspired by The Great Barrier Reef. The great colour choice of Acrylic yarns in specialty local stores and the possibility to mix various yarn thicknesses allowed me to experiment, design and make this wall hanging. The included easy care instructions will ensure decades of original beauty .

Artist Name: LORI PENSINI

Artwork Title: LAMBING

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 55 x 55cm

Price: $3850

About the Artist:

My art practice is an exploration of myself, my identity and placement within my family’s multifaceted history. I draw deeply from my long generational mulit-cultural heritage and lived experiences in the Australian landscape. I am essentially a storyteller, illustrating my responses to and relationship with our landscape with signature botanical and figurative genres to create narratives around our cultural identity and role within our natural world.
I am a nationally recognised artist. I have held 29 solo exhibitions to date and been shortlisted for over 100 awards, including winning the Kilgour Prize, Toni Finni Lester Prize, Perth Royal Landscape Award & The Jury Prize.

Artist Statement:

This figurative landscape captures ‘a day in the life’ of rural living and is set in two timelines. The first timeline as the background depicts our landscape in summer, fatigued and parched from the baking heat. The second timeline inside the figure illustrates a scene of autumn/winter lambing offering new life and abundance.

Artist Name: NICK COULSON

Artwork Title: TABLETOP WITH COFFEE

Medium: Synthetic polymer paint and Acrylic on board

Size: 50 x 100cm

Price: $1800

About the Artist:

“I paint everyday objects, distilling and simplifying content that is familiar to me. I enjoy exploring the formalist qualities that each subject presents.”

Artist Statement:

This work continues my interest in the subject matter theme of utility, function and form. Hidden beauty.

Artist Name: RICK EVERINGHAM

Artwork Title: GRANITE ARCH - GIRRAWEEN

Medium: Oil on Italian linen

Size: 92 x 92cm

Price: $14000

About the Artist:

I have been a full time professional artist for 54 years. Essentially I travel through life recording in paint anything I find interesting. I have a philosophy that beauty can be found wherever you choose to look. For the last 33 years I have been concentrating on paintings of Italy, but always interspersed with anything in Australia that caught my attention. This is one of those.

Artist Statement:

I find the Girraween National Park a fascinating and mysterious place. I have done several paintings from there over the years, and this imposing natural arch of granite boulders is intriguing and very powerful.

Artist Name: LAURENT POUZET

Artwork Title: IN THE SHADOW OF A FORMER SELF

Medium: Charcoal on Cotton Paper

Size: 34 x 28cm

Price: $2000

About the Artist:

Laurent Pouzet is a Brisbane artist and senior Visual Art teacher in Brisbane. In January this year, Laurent held his first solo exhibition, TILL THE LIGHT SUDDENLY DAWNS, which explored the symbolic significance of objects. Since then, he also became a finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize for 2024. Laurent is passionate about art as a means to thoroughly question, observe and contemplate the world.

Artist Statement:

The ‘self’ is an ever-elusive idea. How much of who we are is contained by the body? We clothe, exercise and even tattoo our bodies in an attempt to assert a sense of ownership over them. Yet, there is so much about our identity that remains shrouded in mystery. This work expresses the frustration of grappling with the transient nature of physical presence and a yearning for a deeper connection to a more enduring, authentic self.

Artist Name: TODD WHISSON

Artwork Title: PRICE OF PARADISE:AFTER VAN GOGH'S SUNFLOWERS

Medium: Oil on Stretch (poly)

Size: 120 x 107cm

Price: $6000

About the Artist:

Inspired by Van Gogh's artistic expression, my reinterpretation of the sunflower series, using energetic brushwork and a limited colour palette, I hope to open a modern dialogue on the rapidly changing Queensland landscapes.

Artist Statement:

Price of Paradise draws inspiration from Van Gogh’s sunflowers, reflecting Queensland’s golden state as a symbol of resilience and hope amid rapid growth and chaos. The artwork contrasts dynamic brushstrokes and bright colours, evoking vitality and enduring spirit, with darker underpainting and wilting flowers, suggesting life’s transience and challenges. This interplay highlights the tension between the complexity of human experience and the natural world.

Artist Name: RICHARD MULDOON

Artwork Title: 03.10.1983

Medium: Oil on Linen

Size: 92 x 122cm

Price: $12000

Judge’s Comment:

Lifelike, intriguing painting. Very beautiful.

Artist Name: BRONWYN SEARLE

Artwork Title: RAINBOW'S END

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 60 x 90cm

Price: $4000

About the Artist:

Bronwyn likes to explore the detail found in leaf litter and studio still life works. She is drawn to the unique beauty found in ordinary settings, including street markings and children’s chalk drawing on local footpaths. This direction suits her technique and eye for detail.
Born in Brisbane, Australia, and trained at the Brisbane College of Art, Bronwyn has been working professionally in the art field all her working life, starting as a graphic artist and moving on to exhibition design and illustration. She spent 18 years at the Queensland Museum, designing displays and illustrating museum publications before establishing her current oil painting art practice.

Artist Statement:

RAINBOW'S END
Children draw what they see, feel, and imagine. Chalk drawings on pavements and driveways are often an accessible canvas for this. Simple generational games like Hopscotch are still seen where children play with friends or siblings outside but close to home.
As I walk in my neighbourhood and find these games and drawings, it inspires me to bring them to life again in oil paint on canvas and include leaf and floral fallout from gardens nearby.

Judge’s Comment:

Nostalgic! The hop scotch brought back so many memories from my childhood.

Artist Name: J VALENZUELA DIDI

Artwork Title: ALL THE QUIET GHOSTS

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 122 x 122cm

Price: $4950

About the Artist:

Brisbane artist J Valenzuela Didi draws on the emergence of patterns and geometric shapes to explore common scenes and signposts of modern life. In his paintings, familiar urban landscapes become haunting and alien reminders of the beauty and character of the present day.

Artist Statement:

This work explores moments of divinity when time and distance fade away. These moments of freedom are fleeting and forever accompanied by a detached sense of unease, impermanence, and isolation. We find ourselves as ghosts, in search of sanctuary; a somewhat unattainable existence.

Artist Name: ANDREA HIGGINS

Artwork Title: GRASS AND GLASS 1

Medium: Photography

Size: 100 x 100cm

Price: $2500

About the Artist:

Andrea Higgins has been an active participant in the contemporary art, craft and design industries for over 20 years. . She participated in the establishment the Queensland Centre of Photography (QCP) in 2004 and was a Foundation Board member for three years. Her current role as Exhibition Coordinator at M&G QLD involves managing the touring of a diverse range of exhibitions to venues across Australia. She completed her Master of Visual Arts through the Queensland College of Art in 2014, regularly exhibits her contemporary photography and is represented in public and private Australian collections.

Artist Statement:

Working on the 'Carbon_Dating' project for two years immersed me in the fascinating world of Australian native grasses and inspired the new series of photograms 'Grass and Glass Series'. Motivated by my new knowledge of Australian native grasses, I want people to look closely and see the uniqueness and beauty captured in the silhouetted image. I applied a darkroom-based, photogram technique by placing the pressed and freshly harvested native grass leaves and flower heads and glass vessels directly onto the photographic paper to create the original handprinted photogram. A collapsing of time occurs through the photogram process; the past and present are brought together to occupy the same paper surface - a 'fossilisation' process occurs. Via the inversion of the image, the object is refigured into a new state. Digitising the unique silver-based photogram allowed for the rescaling of the image.
Medium: The original photogram was made using Ilford fibre-based paper (20x24"). This was then digitised and has been printed as a pigment print onto Hahnemuhle cotton paper