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10 April 202223 October 2026

Section 2 Prizes – People who help the environment

10 April 202223 October 2026

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.

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Material Prizes

The Solar Art Prize Material Prizes were $3,000 vouchers each for Natural Technology Systems products and services.

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Material Prize – a) oil/acrylic

Winner: Terry MacDermot, Blah Blah Blah, mixed media, 54 x 103cm

1 Under dim grey skies and a pale white sun is a black layer of buildings overhung with electricity wires. Under them is a red layer and below that, a grey layer marred with grey dribbles origininating from the damaged red layer.

2 A continuation of the bleak landscape to its left.

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Material Prize – b) encaustic/mixed media

Winner: Bev Bills, The sky is the limit, encaustic, 40 x 50cm

Framed and mounted image made with different materials showing a tree and hill and a secret layer in the ground beneath them.

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Material Prize – c) works on paper: water colour, pastel, print and drawing

Winner: Diana Bradshaw, Life Within, watercolour & pastel, 105 x 84cm

Mounted acrylic image showing a stylized forest of thin tall trees on a slope leading down to a river's edge.

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Material Prize – d) photography, videos & installations.

Winner: Mark Standerwick, Progress, photography 30 x 80cm

Thin wide photograph of a patch of cleared land on a sunny day, with a modified earthmover pointing towards a pile of trees is has just felled.

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Material Prize – e) textiles/3D/ recycled/books & others

Winner: Zara Zannettino, Absurd Birds, textile, 53 x 153cm

Sewn picture shows two birds with floppy crests, sharp beaks, bald blue faces with spots on their cheeks, floppy red growths over their noses covering the front of their cheeks, feathers like drooping collars, and dots on their fat round feathered bodies. One bird faces the front but its eyes are focused to the side; the other bird faces the side. The background is lines of sewn blue and yellow to signify sky and clouds.

Sewn picture shows same sort of absurd looking birds as the first picture, but this time there are 3 of them, one bent looking enquiringly to the side and the other two with their heads up looking the other way.

Final image of the strange looking birds. There are two birds, one looking forwards as if surprised, the other looking the the right as if a bit annoyed.