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Overall prize 2025

Overall winner of the Solar Art Prize-Caring For Our Planet exhibition South Australia 2025, winning voucher for solar products to the value of $8,000 plus one year RSASA membership.

David Braun

The Return

Pen drawing

After the fire and months of regrowth the trees are coming to life and return begins.

A black and white ink drawing of trees with leaves sprouting directly from their trunks, with a flock of small birds beside them. In the foreground one large tree looks completely dead but is surrounded by grass and bushes.
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Second Overall Prize 2025

Winner of the Second Overall Prize in the Solar Art Prize-Caring For Our Planet exhibition South Australia 2025, winning voucher for $6,000 of solar products

Tim Shaw

Climate Change

Blown and carved glass

All life comes from the sun and glass collects its rays, radiating hope and raising our
environmental awareness to protect our beautiful planet Earth.

Pieces of broken glass grade from purples and blues to yellows and reds.
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Wild Nature Prize 2025

Winner of the Wild Nature Prize for Beauty of the Natural Environment in the Solar Art Prize-Caring For Our Planet exhibition South Australia 2025, winning vouchers for solar products to the value of $5,000

Rob Morrison

Earth, Water, Air–Extinction Cycle

Brooches in sterling silver, Casuarina seed ’cones’ garnet

Forty Australian mammal species are extinct, dozens of fish species are
threatened & three insect species vanish every week

Three sterling silver brooches have been coloured in golds and deep browns. One is a beetle, another a fish, and the third is an echidna.
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Section 1 Prize 2025

Winner of the Section 1 Prize for results or causes or satire or caricatures about climate change in the Solar Art Prize-Caring For Our Planet exhibition South Australia 2025, winner of voucher for $4,000 worth of solar products

Carolyn Corletto

Just A Memory

One inch ceramic vessels hand-painted on balsa & board with gold foil

These miniature pots depicting endangered SA plants are arranged into the sentence
“You will never know the true value of something until it is just a memory”

Tiny pots glazed with images of endangered SA plants are arranged on shelves so that their initials (if you knew them) would spell "You will never know the true value of something until it is just a memory."
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Section 2 Prize 2025

Winner of the Section 2 Prize for People Who Help The Environment in the Solar Art Prize-Caring For Our Planet exhibition South Australia 2025, winning vouchers to the value of $4,000 solar products.

Elena Budden

Katherine

Oil on canvas

Plants inspire her to study & communicate herbal skin care free from chemicals (ed.)
Environmentally conscious hair stylist she opts for natural alternatives, biodegradable,
non-toxic ingredients, recyclable packaging

Merging with a background of flowers, plants, and people by water, a woman wearing a scarf over grey hair looks to her right.
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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.