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Overall Prize in the Solar Art Prize, 2022

Prize is $9,000 voucher for Natural Technology Systems, Prospect

or

$500 cash plus 1 year RSASA membership

Winner: Mirjana Dobson – A Whiter Shade, porcelain/slip/lustre 10x60x40

On a wooden table are 5 wooden rectangles with flat white tops. On each rectangle is a cleaned sea creature skeleton.

2nd Overall Prize

$5,000 voucher for Natural Technology Systems

David Braun – A Stream runs through it, pen drawing with watercolour 93 x 65cm

Intricate black and white ink drawing of a stream tumbling over rocks down a hillside beside thin tall gum trees.

NATURAL TECHNOLOGY PRIZE – $5,000 voucher

Wild nature. Beauty of the natural environment.

Winner: Suzie Fewell, Disappearing Landscape: Yellow Mountains, digital photo 56.5 x 56.5cm

Framed picture of dark cliffs showing between them distant craggy mountains partly obscured by fog.

Section 1 Prizes – Climate Change

Winners were awarded vouchers for $4,000 each with Natural Technology Systems, Prospect.

Section 1A Prize – Results and causes

Winner: Janet Makaev, Land clearing:-the death of trees, graphite on paper, 98 x 68cm

Inside a frame are mounted 6 black and white drawings each set underneath and to the right of the one above so the drawings step to the right. They show an earthmover approaching, then tearing down, trees.

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Section 1B Prize – People who harm the environment (Caricatures – satire highlighting social or community irresponsibility)

Winner: Dan Withey, Steering the environment, acrylic on canvas 90 x 120cm

A bright cartoon style image of a man in harlequin clothes and a beanie bending right over backwards as he pulls the steering column of a vehicle with wheels and flames coming out of a pipe and a firey red canopy topped iwth a sail which could be the earth half eaten and blowing away.

Section 2 Prizes – People who help the environment

Section 2A Prize – People in action

Winner: Peter Noble, How Dare You, oil, 76 x 61cm (Greta Thunberg)

Face of Greta Thunberg as a young girl with a snake coming out of her inner eye like a black tear trail, behind an image of an oil rig with smoke stacks and flames coming out of its chimney.

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Section 2B Prize – Life portraits of those who take responsible action for combatting climate change- taken from life, not accessed through the net unless we are again ‘shut down’.

Winner: Paul Whitehead, The Organic man – (Ian -An organic farmer), oil, 70 x 90cm

Large framed portrait of a heavily bearded man in a stockman's hat with rope around the brim.

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Section 3 Prize – Natural Environment – Endangered or threatened fauna or flora (ideally in their natural environment)

Winner: Kate Lewis, Introvert, acrylic on wooden artist panel, 66.5 x 66.5cm

Cockatoo with magnificent black feathers edged in red and gold beside a branch, with stylised greenery in the background.