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Winners of 2024 Solar Art Prize announced

5 Merit prizes were awarded

Each winner received $100 for Metro tickets and a book about climate change.

Helen Bakhoff  for Treasures grow in rocks

A framed picture of red, green, blue and gold beads forming a shape like seaweed on a rock.

Margaret Walsh for Weighing ability to sustain

An image of three small birds beside an overflowing money jar looking up at a set of scales with one side holding animals and birds and the other, heavier side, holding mechanical toys and clocks. Behind is a globe of the earth showing travel across the United States and a plane flying overhead. In front is the skeleton of a dinosaur. On the other side of the picture is a set of unused weights and cigarette butts and a toy ambulance on its side.

Sarah Vandepeer for Before During & After

4 framed pictures of the same scene showing trees beside a road and cultivated land with hills in the background. The first picture is green and healthy, the second red and overcast, the third grey and red with most trees gone except for one dead tree, and the fourth picture is green again, with the dead tree still there but new trees growing behind.

Brenton Mitchell for DNA of an extinction event

A parchment with lines looking like text, actually made up of more rolled up parchment material.

Libby Tozer for Sea ghost and We are all connected

A gallery of 12 square sea-themed images: three women's bodies holding hands under water; three women sitting on the sand holding hands and lifting their faces to the sky; many dead fish on the sand; three women holding hands under water; one woman blowing bubbles under water; one woman in a fishing net; one woman swimming underwater; a large net going into the sea; a woman in a net; four women walking into the sea, arms upraised; a sea wave; two women swimming in the waves.
Three images: a fish shape made of small metallic objects; a tree shape made of the same small objects; a bold sunset with rays of clouds shaped like the tree.
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One week extension!

Artists now have until 14 February 2024 to submit their entries for the 15th annual Solar Art Prize in South Australia, with $68,000 worth of prizes to be won.

Prizes include a Natural Technology Systems Prospect voucher for $13,000 worth of fully installed Solar Q Cell Panels / solar hot water / battery / low power refrigerator / composting toilet / solar pool pumps.

This will be the 15th year in a row that the privately funded Solar Art Prize has been held, representing a total of $558,140 of solar product vouchers, cash and metro tickets awarded to South Australian artists.

Art of any style in any medium is accepted for judging by a different team of independent judges every year.

The urgency of reducing carbon emissions can no longer wait on government, foreign powers or anyone else to take responsibility. We must do what we can – NOW.

This is your chance to express your feelings about climate change, laud those who are helping, and satirise those who are not helping.

Terms and conditions and the entry form may be found on the 15th Solar Art Prize page.

This painting is the co-winner of the Overall Prize: Healing by Paul Whitehead.

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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15th Solar Art Prize launched

One image cut into three, of dead grey tree branches reaching over blue water with brown trees in the background.
Wendy Jennings: They will just disappear…
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.
Paul Whitehead: Healing

Co-overall winners of the 14th Solar Art Prize in 2023

We are delighted to be welcoming entries for the 15th annual Solar Art Prize in South Australia, with $68,000 worth of prizes to be won.

Prizes include a Natural Technology Systems Prospect voucher for $13,000 worth of fully installed Solar Q Cell Panels / solar hot water / battery / low power refrigerator / composting toilet / solar pool pumps.

This will be the 15th year in a row that the privately funded Solar Art Prize has been held, representing a total of $558,140 of solar product vouchers, cash and metro tickets awarded to South Australian artists.

Art of any style in any medium is accepted for judging by a different team of independent judges every year.

The urgency of reducing carbon emissions can no longer wait on government, foreign powers or anyone else to take responsibility. We must do what we can – NOW.

This is your chance to express your feelings about climate change, laud those who are helping, and satirise those who are not helping.

Terms and conditions and the entry form may be found on our 15th Solar Art Prize page.

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Winners of 2023 Solar Art Prize announced

THEME: Climate change, nature and the environment; expressed through landscapes, seascapes, wild fauna or flora or environmentally aware people or thought-provoking images.

Prizes to the value of $61,000 were awarded.

Winners receive Natural Technology Systems Prospect vouchers towards the purchase of Solar Q Cell Panels/solar hot water/battery/refrigerator (low power)/composting toilet/or solar pool pump –  Winners choice – All fully installed.

Prizes are transferrable to family or friends in South Australia.

A warm thank you to our judges:

Tony Bishop

Olive Bishop

Larissa Rogacheva

Also thank you to Natural Technology Systems, Prospect, who have not only honoured our vouchers since 2010 but have sponsored a major prize in the competition since 2016.

Logo featuring a windmill over green grass under a red sun beside waves, and the words Natural Technology Systems Energy Consultants.
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Co-winner of Overall Prize and Hanger’s Choice Award

$7,500 voucher for solar products from NTS Prospect (or $500 cash)

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$3,000 voucher for solar products from NTS Prospect  (or $50 cash)

Wendy Jennings

“They will just disappear”, acrylic triptych 42 x 286cm – For endangered species we are their greatest enemy and their only hope. They will not argue their case nor say goodbye. They will just disappear.

One image cut into three, of dead grey tree branches reaching over blue water with brown trees in the background.
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Co-winner of Overall Prize

$7,500 voucher for solar products from NTS Prospect (or $500 cash)

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.