Kate won a $5,000 voucher for solar products (transferable to a friend or relative) for her handwoven artwork The Drought.
Winner of Prize for People & People’s Responsibility for the environment and climate change in the 10th Solar Art Prize – Will Powrie
Will won a $5,000 voucher for solar products (transferable to a friend or relative) for his sculpture Regrowth.
Winner of Oil & Acrylic section of 10th Solar Art Prize – Helen Stacey
Helen won a $4,000 voucher for solar products (transferable to a friend or relative) for her acrylic painting Autumn Showers Coming – Nalpa Lagoon.
Winner of the Works on Paper section of the 10th Solar Art Prize – Iroda Adil
Iroda won a $4,000 voucher for solar products (transferable to a friend or relative) for her charcoal artwork Clinton Carty – owner of ‘Organically Grown’ (shop in Magill)
Winner of the 3D and Sculpture section of the 10th Solar Art Prize – Vanessa Lee
Vanessa won a $4,000 voucher for solar products (transferable to a friend or relative) for her sculpture Best Supporting Role Goes To…
Winner of the Photography and Digital section of the 10th Solar Art Prize – Adam Dutkiewicz
Adam won a $4,000 voucher for solar products (transferable to a friend or relative) for his photograph The Path to Salt.
Winner of the Everything Else section of the 10th Solar Art Prize – Maria Hoist Salamonsen
Maria won a $4,000 voucher for solar products (transferable to a friend or relative) for her handmade felt power and stitching work Drought.
Opening of 10th Solar Art Prize 2pm Sunday 19 May 2019
Come along to the opening of the 10th Solar Art Prize, to find out the winners of $36,000 worth of solar products! The opening is at 2pm Sunday 19 May.
Free including catalogue
Door prize for first drawn correctly answered questionnaire about the environment
The venue is the Royal South Australian Art Society Gallery which is on the first floor of the Institute Building on the corner of North Terrace and Kintore Avenue. Go up the set of stairs further AWAY from North Terrace, or use the lift, to see 70 wonderful works of art celebrating our environment.
The exhibition will be opened by Clare Peddie, Science Journalist with the Adelaide Advertiser.
This privately funded, merit-based prize is judged by a panel of three different independent judges each year. The art work features the environment and people, seascapes, landscapes, wild fauna and flora in every medium.
Tenth annual Solar Art Prize open for entries
The tenth annual Solar Art Prize – Caring For Our Planet 2019 offers prizes to South Australians totalling $36,300 if taken in solar products.
This will add to the $265,700 total value of prizes awarded over the previous nine competitions.
This privately funded merit-based prize is judged by three different independent judges each year. All mediums are welcome.
In 2019, the exhibition of finalists will be held from 19 May to 9 June. Entries close on 29 March 2019. The entry form is available on this website.
Solar Art Prize booth at Prospect Spring Fair
A fine day was had by all at the Prospect Spring Fair.
Natural Technology Systems, long term sponsors of the Solar Art Prize, sponsored the booth. Two artists gave demonstrations.