Finalists 2025
Congratulations to the finalists of Local Contemporary Art Prize 2025

Marvene Ash
Heart and Soul | 2024 | gouache on rag paper | 94 x 75cm

David Bongiorno
Autumn Figs and Alan Stirling Pottery | 2024 | oil on board | 40 x 43cm (framed)

Sue Bradshaw
Urban Shadow | 2025 | slip cast stoneware with eco dyed local foliage and digital image on celluloid sleeve | 31 x 46 x 46cm (variable)

Lisa Chandler
Wallum Country I | 2023 | acrylic on canvas | 50.5 x 61cm

Erin Conron
Parallax Series, Sphere #1 | 2024 | blown and kiln-fired glass with applied enamel | 22 x 22 x 22cm

Luke Deacon
Weathered poem of the Coolum Bays | 2025 | acrylic and mixed media on canvas | 92 x 154cm (15 panel work)

Rowley Drysdale
Crookneck Within | 2025 | paint, clay and wood on plyboard | 106 x 81 x 3.5cm

Julie Field
Childhood Friends | 2025 | acrylic on canvas | 123 x 93cm

Carol Forster
Ocean, Earth and Fire | 2024 | porcelain, terracotta and black clay | 32 x 46 x 46cm (installed)

Terrence Gillespie
Anakie Street | 2025 | digital giclée print | 80 x 120cm (framed)

Louise Gregg
Money Matrix | 2024 | mixed media | 84 x 84cm

Katie Harris-MacLeod
Falling through space (the three of us) | 2024 | cyanotype, salt, bloodwood tree sap and graphite on 300gsm watercolour paper | 76 x 56cm

Benjamin Hedstrom
Rockpool II (Yaroomba) | 2024 | oil on linen | 101 x 101cm

Andrew Hillhouse
Deep Forest | acrylic on canvas | 92 x 155cm

Robyn Hills
Golden Beach in Black & White | 2023-24 | photograph; pigment ink on Hahnemühle watercolour paper | 70 x 70cm (framed)

Tanya Hoddinott
Summer In Dulong | 2025 | oil on canvas | 120 x 94.5cm (framed)

Brandi Hughes
Hotdog | 2025 | oil on canvas | 125 x 125cm (framed)

Petalia Humphreys
EPLC series #2, three pieces in fourth composition | 2023-25 | low sheen interior/exterior acrylic (Pacifika, Coconut Ice and Suzy's White) on plywood | 50 x 50 x 45cm (installed)

Elizabeth Lawrence
View From My Window - The Maleny Story | 2025 | Copper etching, Aquatint and Spit-Biting | Edition 1/20 | 76 x 118cm (framed)

Wayne Markwort
Cotton Tree Still Life | 2025 | spray paint on aluminium board | 152 x 137cm

Viki Murray
Off to Tea Tree Bay | 2024 | aerosol and mixed media on reclaimed signage | 60 x 50cm

Kellie O'Dempsey
Lenticular cloud + after Rothko | 2024 | watercolour on paper | 150 x 102cm

Beatrice Prost
Requiem for a Reef | 2024 | hand-carved aluminium | 51 x 75cm (framed)

Victoria (Tory) Richards
Emily | 2019-23 | oil-based clay, plaster and watercolour | 44 x 22 x 15cm

Megan Robinson
Not Reflected in My Super | 2025 | reclaimed copper wire | 125 x 71cm

Janet Roebuck
Luminosity | 2025 | clay - porcelain and stoneware | 8.89 x 27.94 x 11.43cm

Phillip Rolton
The Swimmer | 2024 | pen, ink and watercolour on paper | 83 x 123cm (framed)

Lindy Sale
Forest Sounds | 2023 | watercolour and gouache on paper | 76 x 104cm

Raoul Slater
To the Max | 2024 | wet-plate collodion tintype on aluminium | 60 x 45cm (framed)

Dianne Smith
The quiet influence of small moments | 2025 | oil on canvas | 76 x 91 x 3.5cm

Georges Soler
Pause | 2025 | mixed media on marine plywood | 122 x 90cm

Kym Tabulo
Anatomy of a Shroud | 2024 | digital print on aluminium | 155 x 55cm (framed)

Samantha Taylor
Who Am I To Disagree | 2024 | coloured pencil on watercolour paper | 76 x 56cm

Sascha Tillsley
Guardians | 2025 | pigment liner on Fabriano paper | 46.5 x 66cm

Sam Vatovey
Mount Emu Walk | 2025 | oil paint, oil stick and spray paint on canvas | 120 x 150cm

Ella Viollet
Inside out | 2024 | cyanotype quilt, cotton, polyester and wooden pegs | 140 x 100 x 2.5cm

Nicole Voevodin-Cash
Presence | 2024 | polyethylene, nylon, tulle, netting, organza, recycled mesh and cotton | 25 x 50 x 20cm (installed)

Jonathon Westacott
Obi | 2024 | hand-blown etched glass | 50 x 28cm

Darren White
Eenie Creek | 2024 | acrylic and oil on polycotton canvas | 152 x 122cm (framed)

Zoe Willey
1960-2024 (Beach House No.7) | 2025 | oil on birch panel | 40 x 50cm