June 1- 30, 2025: Issue 463

 

2025 Environment Art & Design Prize Finalists announced

Friday May 30 2025

Council is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2025 Environment Art & Design Prize. 

Finalists include a range of early career and established artists and designers, who together will create 3 contemporary exhibitions exploring critical environmental issues.

Mayor Sue Heins said the range of entries were broad and thought-provoking.

“We were thrilled to receive almost 700 entries this year and 191 of the best works of art and design have been selected as finalists for the exhibition opening on 1 August 2025. 

“This year’s Environmental Art & Design Prize attracted entries from across the nation, many sharing a common theme of how the issues of climate change and sustainability affect local communities across the globe,” Mayor Heins said.

You can view the finalists’ works at Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Curl Curl Creative Space and Mona Vale Creative Space Gallery from 1 August to 14 September.

“Don’t forget to vote for your favourite entry through the People’s Choice Award, which is open till 10 September, with the winner announced on 12 September,” added Mayor Heins.

This Year’s prize money, is an impressive $20,000 for each of the Art and Design categories, making the design category one of Australia’s richest design awards. The Young Artists and Designers winners will receive a total of $3,000, and the three People’s Choice winners will receive $1,000 per venue.

Young 7-12 years

  • Camilo Budet Trescott, Ancestral Sunrise 
  • Audrey Chen, Shy Forest 
  • Beatrix Dennison, I Love North Head
  • Constance Fan, Golden Treasure
  • Abbey Fu, The Stranded Penguin
  • Iris Ha, The Ocean's Secret Message
  • Zoe Jiang, Witch House
  • Yichen (Jasmine) Jiang, Imagination
  • Alice Juwono, The Green Fennec Fox in Bushland
  • Phoenix Libotte, Broken Seasons
  • Saffron Libotte, Turtle Island
  • Felicia Lin-Xie, Living Fossil - Bulloak Jewel Butterfly
  • Anahid Mezoghlian, The Busy Penguin
  • Louie (Lucinda) Ornelas, Squawks the Grubinator
  • Sophie Poulier, Frogzilla
  • Sophie Poulier, Captain Cassowary
  • Vivian Qin, Don't Cut Our Home
  • Theodore Saldan, The Ugly Face of Pollution
  • Lia Shachar, Fruit Break
  • Ellory Tan, Beneath and Beyond the Circle of Life
  • Aria Tan, A Cute Seahorse
  • Eva Wheeler, The Worker Bee
  • Màira Widholzer with Florence, Rachel, Aarna, Ava and Clara, The Sisters Tree
  • Evangeline Wrightson, Great Barrier Grief
  • Felix Xu, Log-head Shark
  • Angie Xu, Nature's Room
  • Brandon Xu, Hell in Paradise
  • Blair Xu, Guardians of the Ocean
  • Emmie Yao, The Final 50
  • Kloe Zhou, Reality Check

Young 13-18 years

  • Luca Bianchinotti, My Perfect Summer 
  • Jennifer Charlton, 2050
  • Ivy Chen, Filet-O-Fish
  • Claire Childs, Once Loved
  • Arabella Czerwenka, Coral Seascape
  • Banjo Evans, Discarded World, Fading Creatures 01
  • Oscar Gilliland, Long Reef Headland in Clay
  • Miley Hiraizumi, Ocean of Digestion 
  • Madeline Hollier, The Emu
  • Laura Hou, Australia's Sounds
  • Isla Jessup, Ingalalla 
  • Sierra Knights, Tide Riders
  • Abigail Lee, The Tree and Waratah 
  • Suzie Leys, Mandy's Gourmet Delicacies
  • Ching Ka Janelle Lin, The Last Branch
  • Zoe Maryska, River Songs of Life
  • Chelsea Moss, Ignorant Bliss
  • Meera Nirmalendran, Nature's Bounty
  • Serena Plane, The Places We Have Been
  • Clare Powell, Irrawong
  • Willamina Powell, Natural Renaissance
  • Claire Power, Beneath Our Actions
  • Angie Procter, Seahorse  
  • Emma Sproule, Slipping Glimpse
  • Yudie Sun, Mother Nature's Wrath
  • Ali Talebian, The Price of Thirst
  • Eden Xu, Numbat

Art

  • Luke Abdallah & Izumi Nago, Rhythm in Nature (Bilpin)
  • Gus Armstrong & Peter Swain, Creek Dreaming W/Peter Swain
  • Tara Axford, Held in Balance
  • Rina Bernabei, Groundings
  • Camille Blyth, The Secret Keepers
  • Lisa Cahill, Effervesce
  • Gordon R Carmichael, Anthroposcream
  • The Arthitects – Gary Carsley & Renjie Teoh, Wambuul (Proclamation Park Bathurst) 
  • Caroline Christie-Coxon, The Unburdening
  • Jan Cleveringa, What Rubbish
  • Sadhbha Cockburn, Earth Bound
  • Samuel Condon, Six Days in Dordogne 
  • Penny Coss, Cross Currents 2024
  • Danielle Creenaune, Resounding Vale
  • Laura Curcio, Best Before
  • Julia Davis, In Relation: To the Heart
  • Chris De Rosa, Bloom/Doom
  • Tamara Dean, Blowin’ in the Wind
  • Shoufay Derz, The Maws - Emptiness (Part 3)
  • Joel Dickens, Rhizome
  • Susie Dureau, Powerful Owl
  • Helen Earl, Landscape Embodied
  • Julie Edgar, Veiled
  • Matt Elliott & David Collins, Changing of Tides (Crosslands Exchange)
  • Claire Ellis, Hot Air
  • Bernadette Facer, Low Water
  • Dongwang Fan, Nine Gum Trees 
  • Nic Fern, Frayed Ideals
  • Louise Fowler-Smith, Extinction Solastalgia
  • Guy Fredericks, Lasso 1 & 2
  • Kath Fries, Beguiling (Lean on Me)
  • Phillip George, Swimming to Hades 
  • Maddison Gibbs Wing, Kin
  • Allan Giddy, Abandoned Home
  • Genevieve Ginty, The Future
  • Marisabel Gonzalez, Field Notes from the Body of the Earth 2
  • Maharlina Gorospe-Lockie, Discomfort Food: Sinangag (Garlic Fried Rice)
  • Petra Gotthardt, Agony & Apathy
  • Tim Gregory, Farmland Landscape C.1990/2025
  • Chris Hagen, Apistolaries (Exchange)
  • Lee Harrop, Foundation Stone
  • Dan Hewitt, Queensie from Dad's Place
  • Mahala Hill, Apocalypse Unfolding VII
  • Rachel Honnery, Green Between the Trees
  • Linda Hume, Kate's Garden
  • Jude Hungerford, Arbores Vitae
  • Jude Hungerford, Burn 2
  • Les Irwig, Ocypode Art
  • Derek Jungarrayi Thompson, Maku (Witchetty Grub) Derek’s Story
  • Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger, Footprint Convergence - Penguin Highway
  • Freddy Ken, Kulata Tjuta - Kungkarangkalpa Freddy's Story
  • Bella La Spina, Margin
  • James Lai, Paddocks and Vineyards
  • Birte Larsen, End Grain
  • Ryan Andrew Lee, Anthropocentrism
  • Pamela Leung, Yuenyeung 43
  • Chrystie Longworth, Jetsam Sentinels
  • Daniel Lopez Lomeli, Kodama Variation #3
  • Orlando Luminere, Brooklyn #0088
  • Amelia Lynch, Flora Strata
  • Rachel Mackay, Crabs Nipping at My Flesh Beneath the Surface
  • Kathy Mackey, Coastal Drawings (Inverted) 
  • Negin Maddock, Standing Still
  • David Manley, Post-Traumatic Urbanist #14
  • Donna Marcus, End of Empire
  • Katherine Marmaras, Waste Not, Want Not (Memories)
  • Sally Mayman, Liminal Zone, Wontanella
  • Georgia McFarland, Poolside #63 (Suburban Dreams)
  • Catherine McGuiness & Diane Pirotta, My Parents Always Called Me A Possum
  • Milan Milojevic, The Great White Hunter After a Hard Day's Work 1
  • Luanne Mitchelmore, Honouring Soil
  • Jodie Munday, Gunlindulin - Eel Wiradjuri
  • Kendal Murray, Keen Eyed Applied, Hillside Confide
  • Ainslie Murray, Not A Problem
  • Phillip Muzzall, And If It All Falls Apart, What Then?
  • Anne Nginyangnka Thompson, Strong Family Connection
  • Julie Nicholson, Water Forms
  • Lucy O'Doherty, Car in Blue Storm 
  • Julie Paterson, The Menindee Memorial Loop
  • Meagan Pelham, Bird Land Washy Whale Party
  • Lori Pensini, Empty
  • Emma Pinsent, Return to Form
  • Julien Playoust, Standing by the Gate Set, Old Stringy Bark & Gravel Pit Near the Woolshed
  • Shirley Ploog, Salt Lake Wanderings
  • Anthony Polkinghorne, Katabasis
  • Kim Power, Dyad
  • Sandra Pumani, Maku Tjukurpa
  • Simon Reece, Resting Sponge
  • Margaret Richards, Tjukula Tjuta
  • Adam Sébire, Anthroposcene XII: Iceberg Care
  • Douglas Schofield, Suburban Tree Tensions
  • Gary Shinfield, Remnants
  • Patrick Shirvington, Observation of Beauty
  • Kris Smith, Tree Litmus
  • Emma Sutherland, Totems
  • Jane Theau & Ramji Ambrosiussen, Saint Bob and the Swifts
  • Carlene Thompson, Tjulpu Kulunypa - Baby Birds
  • Thomas Thorby-Lister, Can't See the Forest for the Fields
  • Angela Tiatia, Render
  • Shonah Trescott, Red Gold 
  • Jennifer Turpin, CR.E
  • Gabriela Villalba, Queenscliff
  • Hilary Warren, Banksia Cones
  • Ben Waters, A Patchwork of Sunlight
  • Rachael Wellisch, Recuperated Material Monuments #23
  • Cat Wilson, Just Hanging
  • Jason Wing, Save Our Souls
  • Mei Zhao, Garden C

Design

  • Craig Ashton, Connections
  • Jane Bamford, Ceramic Little Penguin Nesting Module 
  • Luke Batten, Dyad lamp
  • Julian Clarkson, Bedridden
  • Kate Dorrough, River Costume
  • Caren Elliss, Grandiflora Chandelier
  • Björn Eriksson, Co-Habitat Coat: Fashion for Nonhuman Kinship
  • Diego Faivre, Altare di Casa made in 3669 minutes
  • Chloe Ferres, All That Remains (Burial Quilt) 
  • Maddison Gibbs Wing, Fallen Kin
  • Georgia Graham, Like a Virgin
  • Anne Greenway, SEGway
  • Shawnna Hodgson, Waves
  • Locki Humphrey, Vault Stool
  • Trent Jansen & Tanya Singer, Manta Pilti | Dry Sand Low Chair
  • Marlo Lyda, Turning (Camphor) - Bed & Lamp
  • Joanne Odisho, Pathways
  • Joanne Odisho, Lume
  • Susie Roberts, Star
  • Lucile Sciallano, Loose Threads 
  • Christine Simpson, Hooked
  • Jasmine Stein, Phyla
  • Ben Styles & Jordan Goren, Caustara
  • Lilli Taranto, Transparent Paths: Reframing waste as a precious resource.
  • Emma Varga, Hug Me
  • Xinze Yu, Emberbloom