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Winners of 2026 Solar Art Prize announced

10 Merit prizes were awarded

Each winner received $100 Metro ticket and a book about climate change.

IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

Chloe Bower

A landscape with stylized small plants in the foreground and flowers and trees in the midground with more trees growing in the background.
Sensing the coming of Change, hand-painted felted yarn on blanket fragment, by Chloe Bower.

Ralph Faggotter

Amongst dense green eucalypt leaves and flowers, a family of possums with distinct white markings all cling to branches and look at the viewer.
Family of Leadbeater’s possums, oil painting by Ralph Faggotter.

Wendy Jennings

The top left hand image shows a series of small water colour paintings connected in a concertina fashion. The remaining three images are examples of the paintings: April 1400 showing aboriginal people beside campfires in front of hills with small controlled fires on them; January 1900 showing a sheep farmer with a large bushfire in the hills; and January 2010 showing a plantation with a catastrophic bushfire in the hills.
History of fire in the Adelaide Hills, water colour and cotton by Wendy Jennings.

Eileen Kontakos

A woman's bare feet and calves stand on sandy ground beside some weeds. The remainder of the woman and her background are pixellated out.
Regeneration, oil on wood panel by Eileen Kontakos.

Bob Landt

A sun haloed in burning clouds presides over a landscape of dead tree trunks and bushes. People sit comfortably watching the spectacle of a burning pit of flames. One of the tourists stands closer, looking into the pit.
The Tourist, a water colour by Bob Landt.

Eileen Lubiana

An old dartboard has had the centre painted over so the bullseye is now a sun rising over the ocean, resembling the sun in the Australian Aboriginal flag. Around the rim it reads The time for action is today, or watch the beauty fade away. We hold the future in our hand to save this ravaged, sacred land.
Targets, a painting on bristle board by Eileen Lubiana.

Penny MacLaren

Head and shoulders of a man with grey hair and a white beard and moustache frowning to the side.
Passionate environmentalist Tim Jarvis AM, oil painting by Penny MacLaren.

Guiseppe Matteo Pappalardo

Four images of a series of 30 square white ceramic tiles which have foliage painted on them in blue along with their scientific names. One of the tiles is red with a stylized white hourglass on it.
Flora Extinct: Botanical loss in Australia, ceramic tile set by Guiseppe Matteo Pappalardo.

Carol Scholich

People in a fishing boat look the other way as a dolphin rises out of the water, its mouth open in distress, with a car tire around its neck.
Tyred Dolphin, a painting in acrylic by Carol Scholich

Tim Shaw

An egg-shaped glass vase boldly colored yellow and red with foliage around a waterhole.
Watch and Act, blown and carved glass by Tim Shaw.