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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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Co-winner of Overall Prize

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Paul Whitehead

“Healing (galahs at Mt Chambers Gorge) ”, photograph 1 x 1.5m. After years of stressing the land with unsuccessful, inappropriate grazing, nature in starting to heal.

Two galahs, which are pink parrots with grey head and wings, stand next to a rotting wooden fence post with fallen rusty barbed wire. The birds overlook a hillside dotted with low brown bushes.
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NATURAL TECHNOLOGY PRIZE

Wild nature. Beauty of the natural environment.

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Ross Hill – “The Gates”, oil pastel on Fabriano paper, 70 x 170cm As a species, we are surely at the gates…

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Section 1A Climate Change

Climate Change – results and causes

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Maureen Hart “Cloud seeding”, oil on canvas, 92 x 152cm Australia started cloud seeding with chemicals from the 1950s to make clouds rain. Many countries now use drones to deliver laser pulses to rain clouds.

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Section 1B Climate Change

Satire/caricatures expressing people’s irresponsibility

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Elizabeth Solich “Pyjama Squid Armagedon”, oil on canvas & recycled materials, 76.2 x 100.6cm Recently as a result of global warming, this Australian endemic species – Pyjama Squid – has moved to Belgium because it’s too hot in Australia

Buildings with red roofs take up the lower third of the frame, with the wall of a matching building on the right. Over the plain blue sky and the red-rooved buildings are black and white squids of different sizes all facing forward wearing black bowler hats.
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Section 2A People who help the environment

People in action who help the environment

Herbert Neetzel – “Rainy day, volunteers clean up Semaphore dunes”, mixed on paper, 30 x 42cm

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Twelve and a half cartoon figures in red coats carrying bags with handles walk over a grassy area divided with grey sandy trails in front of the ocean. They sky above them is pouring down rain.
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Section 3A Natural Environment

Endangered or threatened fauna or flora

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Annette Marner – “Sisters holding on by a Thread”, Giglee photographic print 7- x 83cm One of the rarest plants in the world – South Australis’s Spiny Daisy (Acanthocladium dockeri)

Against a light blue sky, 2 spiky thorns intertwine.
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Section 3B Natural Environment

Landscape or seascape or underwater world

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Judith Strikis – “Heritage Bunya Pine”, watercolour, 9- x 70cm. This stately bunya pine is the last standing tree from the original Bell Yett Property Garden in Wattle Park.

A pine tree with separated, lightly leaved branches in an oval shape stands on red ground with a bush behind it.
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Merit Award 1

14th Solar Art Prize Exhibition, 2023

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Bev Bills “ Maskeletal Remains” plastic recycled mask clips, 55 x 40cm Extremely rare find of a complete maskelatal of a maskapator found locally as road-kill, outside a local hospital. The discarded skeletal remains are a puzzle.

Three small polished wooden blocks support three shapes made out of white plastic. Most of plastic pieces are square, with a hole near one edge; two of the shapes end in plastic arches with a hole at each end. One shape is an inverted arch, another is a wavy arch, and the third twists and rotates back on itself like a tormented snake.
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Merit Award 2

14th Solar Art Prize Exhibition, 2023

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Anne Allen- “Evanesce”, mosaic, glass, 52 x 80cm This mosaic highlights the relationship between the red-tail black cockatoo and its habitat and its decline over time as a result of human activity and dominance.

A rectangular shape has a background filled with small uneven rectangles of green glass, which are bright green at the left but gradually darken so they are mostly black at the right. There are 5 upright black feathers lined up with a red centre which diminishes in size and angle in each feather, forming an arrow to the right.
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Merit Award 3

14th Solar Art Prize Exhibition, 2023

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Will Powrie – “Cobalt Lust ”, steel, copper, rock, 210 x 50cm An interpretation of cobalt mining in the Congo and the resulting environmental and human catastrophy spurred on by the green energy revolution.

A picture of a rusty metal stand with a pitchfork head on one side and a bird wing on the other. The bird wing is red and gold at the top and cobalt on the bottom.