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Kathy maintains the Solar Art Prize website for her aunt Pip Fletcher who is passionate about changing everyone's behaviour to save the planet.
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Section 3 prize 2025

Winner of the Section 3 Prize for Natural Environment in the Solar Art Prize-Caring For Our Planet exhibition South Australia 2025, winning a voucher to the value of $4,000 worth of solar products

Christine Fenech

Last Light

Oil on linen

Under a white moon in a blue sky framed in blue leaves, a road winds through grass and trees.
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Hangers’ Choice joint prize 2 2025

Joint winner of the Hangers’ Choice Prize in the Solar Art Prize-Caring For Our Planet exhibition South Australia 2025, winning $3,000 in solar product vouchers.

Chris Reid

Skates with mermaids’ purses

Australian Cedar woodcarving

Skates mingling & floating on the surface.
The hollows are resting places for their eggs called mermaids’ purses.

A wood carving shows skates (which look like small stingrays) swimming together, with hollows ready for their eggs which are called mermaid's purses.
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Aussie Animal Sanctuary Joint Prize 1 2025

Joint winner of the Aussie Animal Sanctuary Prize in the Solar Art Prize-Caring For Our Planet exhibition South Australia 2025, winning $3,000 in solar product vouchers.

Penny MacLaren

Cicely Bungey AO

Mixed media including oil and ink

Cicely started the SA Landcare branch in 1989 & was a member of the Waite  Arbore
turn for 24 years and supported other environmental causes.

In front of a background of leaves with scientific names, a grey-haired woman wearing glasses smiles.
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Aussie Animal Sanctuary Joint Prize 2 2025

Joint winner of the Aussie Animal Sanctuary Prize in the Solar Art Prize-Caring For Our Planet exhibition South Australia 2025, winning $3,000 in solar product vouchers.

Di Robertson

Tread Softly

Water colour and pastel

We are challenged to open our eyes wide & understand the unseen to tread softly upon this earth.

A large boot is treading on a pile composed of wood, fungi, trees and leaves. Hidden amongst the flora are animals such as a lizard, frog, bird, mouse and butterfly.
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People’s Choice Prize 2025

Winner of the People’s Choice Prize in the Solar Art Prize-Caring For Our Planet exhibition South Australia 2025, winning a voucher to the value of $4,000 worth of solar products

Neva Jones

Eastern Quoll Endangered

Machine thread painting on fabric and canvas

Eastern Quoll are carnivorous marsupials. Extinct on the mainland for sixty years with numbers declining in Tasmania, they’re being reintroduced from breeding programs where predators are managed.

A quoll, which is an Australian native cat-like animal which is generally dark grey with white spots and jumps on its back legs, faces the audience. It is made up of patches of flowery fabric.
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Merit prizes, 2025

Ten merit prizes comprising $100 Adelaide Metro tickets and a book about climate change were awarded.