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

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

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

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

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

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

The Aussie Animal Sanctuary Prize in the 2022 Solar Art Prize was won by Margaret Thomas for her two works.

(1) There’s plenty more plastic in the sea mixed media 160 x 67

(2) Steve Wright – 1000 Trees mixed media gum leaf, watercolour, 60 x 47cm

There were 3 Merit Awards in the 2022 Solar Art Prize and winners received $3,000 vouchers each for Natural Technology Systems Products

Carol Bann: Dry River Bed, coloured pencil, 69 x 86cm

Tricia Ross: Vanitas for a changing world, wet plate collodian photography, 41 x 35.5cm

Hadley Johnson: Housing Crisis, clay & found rubbish (on net)

Honorary Mention in the 2022 Solar Art Prize: Janet Makaev: Down at the dam: pobble book spawn, giglee print 70 x 50cm

Honorary Mention in the 2022 Solar Art Prize: Paul Whitehead: Climate refugees, photography, 40 x 120cm

Solar art prize entries due 18 February 2022

Pip Fletcher has once again funded the non-acquisitive annual South Australian Solar Art Prize, with prizes being vouchers for solar products.

Artists in any medium are welcome to submit art relevant to climate change, nature and the environment.

Entries close 18 February 2022 and winners will be announced 9 April 2022 at the Royal South Australian Society for the Arts.

Prize details and entry forms are at https://solarartprize.com/2021-solar-art-prize-entry-form-and-conditions/.

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