Hunter Emerging Art Prize
WINNERS AND FINALISTS
We congratulate all our winners and finalists for the Hunter Emerging Art Prize
Finalist
2025
Abby McCarthy
Wash Over Me
Painting
Winner
2023
Aidan Gageler
Dusk til Dawn
Experimental
Finalist
2023
Aidan Gageler
Ocean View
Photomedia
Finalist
2023
Aksara Harriram
Floating Suburb
Sculpture
Finalist
2023
Alanya van de Wiel
Spirit House 1
Sculpture
Winner - Photomedia
2024
Alex Golden
Soap Scum
Photomedia
Finalist
2025
Alex Hansen
Sunrise, Bandon Grove
Painting
Finalist
2024
Amara Zenteno
Waters that eat
Ceramics
Winner
2025
Angelea Van Dam
Miners Denim
Painting
Finalist
2025
Ann Stevenson
Bramble Cove
Painting
Finalist
2024
Anna Christie
The Salon
Works on Paper
Finalist
2023
Anna Eggenhuizen
In the past is my future
Works on Paper
Finalist
2025
Anne Michael
Gymea Lily
Painting
Finalist
2024
Annette Tubnor
Playing in the Shadows - Camp Nasturtium
Works on Paper
Finalist
2025
Annette Tubnor
Cabbage Dreamings
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Finalist
2024
Ash Campbell
Untitled #82
Painting
Finalist
2023
Ash McIntyre
Waratah Woods
Works on Paper
Finalist
2025
Belinda Dorey
In Waves of Light
Painting
Finalist
2024
Bernadette Trainor
Chrysanthemum
Painting
Finalist
2025
Bernadette Trainor
Sicilians
Painting
Finalist
2024
Byron James Moffat Smith
Modern Man
Photomedia
Finalist
2025
Caitlin Pluta
After the Rain
Painting
Finalist
2025
Caitlin Pluta
Loner
Painting
Finalist
2025
Chloe Hooper
Landscapes Of The Soul
Experimental
Finalist
2023
Chris Byrnes
Lumen Painting IX
Works on Paper
Finalist
2023
Christiana Monored
Yoni 1
Experimental
Finalist
2025
Christiana Monored
The Oracle
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Winner - Major Prize
2024
Claire Heise
Green Polka Dots
Painting
Winner
2025
Claire Paul
Entangled
Experimental
Finalist
2025
Claire Ruby Lyddiard
The Beautiful Chaos
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Winner
2023
Constance Mcinerney
Fatigued (Hunter street post office)
Painting
Finalist
2023
Constance Mcinerney
The Modulor (Self-portrait)
Painting
Finalist
2025
Corenne Earl
Stole a Menu
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Finalist
Dan Riley
Night Lorikeet
painting
Finalist
2025
Dan Riley
Night Lorikeet
Painting
Finalist
2025
Deanah Allen
Mama
Sculpture
Finalist
2025
Dianna Kellerman
A New Day Is Dawning
Painting
Finalist
2023
Dominic Warland
Colca Canyon
Works on Paper
Finalist
2025
Dominic Warland
Lyrebird
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Finalist
2024
Dominic Warland
Barrington Tops
Works on Paper
Finalist
2023
DonnaJorna
Plunge Pool
Painting
Winner
2023
Eddy Lou
Elixir of Life
Works on Paper
Finalist
2024
Eddy Lou
Broflakes
Sculpture
Finalist
2025
Eira Chidgey
Blood Moon
Painting
Finalist
2025
Eira Chidgey
Wish For Peace Instead
Painting
Finalist
2025
Elise Honeyman
Scribbly Gum
Painting
Finalist
2025
Eliza Blackwell
Beyond the Board
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Finalist
2024
Elizabeth McDonald
Something so Unearthly
Experimental
Finalist
2025
Elizabeth Shoebridge
The Jacaranda was not ready for me
Painting
Finalist
2025
Ella Grace Paterson
The Homestead
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Finalist
2024
Ella Grace Paterson
Highlanders Triptych
Photomedia
Finalist
2024
Emma Wilks
Good Night, Sleep Tight
Works on Paper
Finalist
2025
Erin Byfield-Huish
The Death Shroud
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Finalist
2025
Erin Byfield-Huish
Mother
Sculpture
Finalist
2025
Evie Homewood
Into the lull 6
Experimental
Finalist
2024
Fiona Byczkov
Of All That Is Wasted And Unsaid
Ceramics
Finalist
2023
Fiona Clark
"Ocean Girl"
Painting
Finalist
2025
Fiona Heard
Impermanent
Experimental
Finalist
2023
Fiona Johnson
Open For Inspection
Experimental
Winner
2025
Fran Loudon
Here I am again home
Ceramics
Highly Commended
2024
Frances Dibley Loudon
Fading Facts 2
Ceramics
Finalist
2024
Frances Johnston
Do I burn the mountain or does the mountain burn me
Painting
Finalist
2025
Francois Van Der Walt
Imports
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Finalist
2025
Geoffrey Howitt
solider's rock
Painting
Finalist
2025
Gillian Karpiel
Textures of Life
Ceramics
Finalist
2025
Hannah Devine
Momento
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Winner
2023
Haylee Renee Knight
Wile
Photomedia
Finalist
2023
Henry Knights
Garden Owl
Painting
Highly Commended
2024
Hideaki Kobayashi
Green peaches
Works on Paper
Winner
2025
Holly Leonardson
Ocean Object
Sculpture
Finalist
2025
Howard James
I Made it - This Far
Painting
Winner
2023
Indeah Rose Clark
Prettier if you smiled.
Sculpture
Finalist
2025
Indiana Marsden
Held Tension
Painting
Finalist
2024
Indiana Marsden
Me, Myself & I #5
Works on Paper
Finalist
2025
Indiana Marsden
Nothing But a Bartender
Painting
Finalist
2023
Indiana Marsden
Flow State
Works on Paper
Finalist
2024
Indiana Marsden
Me, Myself & I #8
Works on Paper
Finalist
2025
Jacque Cook
" Bracken "
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Finalist
2025
Jade Maddigan
Cable Knit
Painting
Finalist
2024
Janice Hanicar
Measurement of Time No.1
Works on Paper
Finalist
2024
Janice Hanicar
Tipping Point
Sculpture
Finalist
2023
Jaymie Maley
Angophora Heart
Painting
Finalist
2024
Jaymie Maley
Holding Space
Sculpture
Winner
2025
Jennifer Hankin
Pearl
Experimental
Finalist
2025
Jesse Neale
Still Life with Tyres
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Finalist
2024
Jessica Gilbert
Sem Sauv Suze
Painting
Finalist
2023
Jessica Gilbert
TRUE LOVE
Painting
Finalist
2025
Jessica Herkes-Deane
The Afterbirth
Experimental
Finalist
2025
Jodi Thompson
Close your Ears
Painting
Finalist
2023
Joel Latta
Its true, the cardboard shark was hanging low and to be honest his jacket wasn't quite what he had hoped for, but these shoes were pretty comfy.
Works on Paper
Finalist
2023
Joerg Lehmann
Les Darcy 2022
Photomedia
Finalist
2024
Joshua Bettison
DIY
Painting
Finalist
2025
Julie Bowe
Day is new again
Painting
Finalist
2024
Julie Purdie
Deuteranomalous Quipolly
Painting
Finalist
2024
Julie Purdie
Easy Oar
Photomedia
Finalist
2025
Karen Jane Wells
Earth Bowls
Ceramics
Winner
2023
Kathryn Lean
Fragile Systems
Experimental
Finalist
2023
Kay Armstrong
as above so below
Experimental
Finalist
2024
Kay Pittelkow
Landscape in the Air - Gusts
Experimental
Finalist
2025
Keegan Tallaght Evans
Daydream
Painting
Finalist
2025
Keely Mcmahon
Empathy
Painting
Finalist
2024
Kerri Papworth
The Devil's Greatest Trick Is Convincing The World He Doesn't Exist
Painting
Finalist
2023
Kieran Shaw
finding your wavelength
Experimental
Finalist
2025
Kimberly Swan
Cute, Punk, Emo, Goth
Painting
Finalist
2023
Kylie Moore
Here to Stay
Sculpture
Finalist
2024
Kylie Nolan
Baths Bleachers
Photomedia
Finalist
2025
Laure de Vaugelas
Held in Motion
Sculpture
Finalist
2024
Laure de Vaugelas
Aurora
Sculpture
Finalist
2025
Lauren van den Elzen
Absolute Content
Painting
Finalist
2024
Lavinia Coluccio
Light Makes Dark
Sculpture
Finalist
2023
Leanne Swainson
Threads of Time
Experimental
Finalist
2024
Leanne Swainson
Fragile Memories
Experimental
Finalist
2025
Lente Oosthuizen
Hills and Valleys at Macdonald river.
Painting
Finalist
2025
Lesley Rickman
But only so an hour
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Young Artist Award
2023
Lexie Worboys
Nan's House
Works on Paper
Finalist
2024
Lexie Worboys
1st Birthday Party
Painting
Finalist
2023
Liam Beletich
Absolute Water Frontage
Photomedia
Finalist
2024
Liam Beletich
Flow my tears the boy said ; One of many
Photomedia
Finalist
2023
Liam Norman
Serpentine
Works on Paper
Finalist
2023
Liana Goninon
The Place In-Between
Experimental
Finalist
2023
Liana Goninon
leave it alone
Painting
Finalist
2025
Lisa Morris-Pate
I can use that
Experimental
Winner - Sculpture
2024
Lisa Morris-Pate
It started with panic
Sculpture
Finalist
2024
Louise Faulkner
Barrington daisies
Photomedia
Finalist
2025
Louise Faulkner
New(y) Vintage
Experimental
Finalist
2023
Louise Faulkner
Elizabeth
Photomedia
Finalist
2025
Louise Faulkner
Newcastle Beach Scene (inshore perspective)
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Finalist
2023
Lynda Herbert
Points of Connection & Points of Intersection
Sculpture
Finalist
2023
Lynnette Passeri
Creature of Beauty
Photomedia
Finalist
2024
Mahalia Leckner
Chores
Ceramics
Finalist
2025
Mahalia Leckner
Corn-i
Ceramics
Finalist
2023
Mardi Ryan
Headland
Works on Paper
Finalist
2023
Margot Broug
The untitled and eagerly defining lines of materiality
Painting
Finalist
2025
Marius Paul O'Shea
Dream
Painting
Finalist
2025
Martha Moderitz
Camouflage Cockatoo
Painting
Finalist
2025
Max Blanch
Skimming Shoulders in a Crowd of Transience
Sculpture
Finalist
2024
Megan Farquhar
I Never Met You But I Love You
Experimental
Finalist
2025
Megan Farquhar
Family Portrait
Experimental
Finalist
2024
Megan McGee
My Cup Runneth Over
Ceramics
Finalist
2023
Megan McGee
The Gathering
Sculpture
Finalist
2025
Melody Suranyi
Ancient Rhythm
Painting
Finalist
2024
Michael Hannah
Are you lookin' at me?
Painting
Finalist
2025
Michela Ciulla
Suspended Between Light and Water: Liz's Silent Journey
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Finalist
2024
Nick Fintan
Sketch for Summer
Painting
Finalist
2025
Nick Fintan
High Water
Painting
Finalist
2024
Olivia Hamilton
Chronic
Ceramics
Finalist
2025
Oscar Heathmore
The River
Painting
Finalist
2024
Paula Thistleton
One more time
Experimental
Finalist
2023
Penelope I Morgan
Mother Earth
Photomedia
Highly Commended
2024
Peter Parslow
Bird Bike
Experimental
Winner - Youth
2024
Raffi Butler
Ramyun Motif
Ceramics
Finalist
2023
Rebecca Antel (Brissenden)
Rockpool
Painting
Finalist
2024
Ronan Pirozzi
Ornament
Experimental
Finalist
2025
Rudy Mulder
East End Cafe Newcastle
Painting
Finalist
2025
Ryan Wild
Prototype I
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Winner - Major Prize
2025
Rózsa Csipke
The Park (True Light and Shade)
Experimental
Finalist
2024
Samantha Walsh
Appreciation for Geology
Sculpture
Finalist
2025
Samantha Walsh
Empty
Sculpture
Winner - Experimental
2024
Sandy Sanderson
MycoElectrica
Experimental
Finalist
2023
Sandy Sanderson
Artificial Resonance: A Tulip Cake From The Renaissance
Sculpture
Finalist
2025
Shaana-Anne Crisp
Capturing My Inner Reflection
Experimental
Finalist
2025
Simon Barrett
It's Still Life - Saké
Sculpture
Finalist
2025
Sol Nilssen
Here We Thrive
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Finalist
2023
Stephen Hobbs
BAROQUE
Experimental
Finalist
2025
Steve Lee
Woman in room with flowers.
Painting
Winner - Works on paper
2024
Steve Lee
Guarded comfort on a summers night.
Works on Paper
Finalist
2024
Svetlana Katelas
Serenity
Works on paper
Winner
2023
Svetlana Katelas
Complicated Simplicity
Painting
Finalist
2023
Syann Sue Williams
Hidden, Lurking
Painting
Finalist
2024
Syann Sue Williams
Breaking Out of the Rectangle
Sculpture
Finalist
2025
Tamasin Collins
Mumma-razzi: Pink for girls, Blue for boys
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Winner
2025
Victoria Lovecchio
Climbing Mount Sonder with my sisters in the dark
Works on Paper / Photomedia
Finalist
2024
Xavier Lane
Hall of Glass
Painting
Finalist
2025
Yang Zhang
The Awakening of Endless Hands
Painting
Finalist
2023
Yi Jen Chu
sunset ocean
Sculpture
Finalist
2025
Zara Grey
Piece Of Cake On A Rake
Painting
Finalist
2023
chloe hooper
The Crossover
Painting
Finalist
2023
janice Hanicar
Anemone
Sculpture