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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.

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.

$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.

$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.

Wild nature. Beauty of the natural environment.

$5,000 voucher for solar products from NTS Prospect

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

Climate Change – results and causes

$4,000 voucher for solar products from NTS Prospect

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.

Satire/caricatures expressing people’s irresponsibility

$4,000 voucher for solar products from NTS Prospect

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

People in action who help the environment

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

$4,000 voucher for solar products from NTS Prospect

Endangered or threatened fauna or flora

$4,000 voucher for solar products from NTS Prospect

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)

Landscape or seascape or underwater world

$4,000 voucher for solar products from NTS Prospect

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.