Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2026 finalists

Veil of Despair | 2024 | oil on board | 50 x 50cm

Fieldwork: Provenance Loss (After Hokusai Wall...) | 2025 | digital image on archival paper | 70 x 100cm

The Artist’s Father | 2026 | oil and acrylic on board | 19.5 x 14.5cm

Unwinding | 2025 | oil and Italian linen | 148 x 138cm

Margaritaville | 2026 | oil on linen | 48 x 40cm

River light mountain shadow | 2026 | acrylic on canvas | 49 x 148cm

Pieces of landscape | 2026 | polyester thread, wash’n wear glue, mounted with pins on acoustic pinboard | 70 x 150cm

Meat tray | 2025 | wall-based textile made from repurposed costumes; felt, fringe, lame, lycra, pleather, polyester thread, rhinestones, sequin, spadex, tulle, vinyl, powdercoated metal pole and brackets | 145 x 95cm

Movement and flow | 2026 | acrylic on canvas | 92 x 122cm

KOMA | 2024 | Video | 10mins 35secs

Revolution Modulation Track 05 | 2026 | acrylic on canvas | 155 x 104cm

Mother's Day | 2026 | ink on watercolour paper | 84 x 121cm

Musical chairs | 2024 | C-type silver halide colour print | 65 x 74cm

Was it just a dream | 2024 | photograph | 110 x 114cm 

On the bend, while I waited | 2026 | oil on linen | 137 x 107cm

Postcard, 1946: Cook Monument and Tree Planted 9th Aug., 1881, by the Late Prince Victor of Wales | 2026 | velvet | 100 x 65cm

Reg reclining, Mary Street, Gympie, Queensland, Australia | 2026 | Giclée print | 67 x 100cm

Pick Me | 2026 | oil on poly cotton canvas | 152 x 152cm

Self Scream at 17 | 2024 | graphite, charcoal on Stonehenge paper | 148 x 122cm

A Sign of the Times (A hand-knitted homage to Zoe Leonard's, I want a president, 1992, which was installed as a billboard along the New York Highline in 2016) | 2026 | hand knitted wool and acrylic yarn, timber, canvas | 155 x 125 x 2.5 cm

Djaawun | 2026 | Digital video | 2mins 21secs

Careful creature | 2024 | Digital video | 1min 37sec

Dawn chorus in twenty six volumes | 2025 | etching, lift ground aquatint, spitbite, photopolymer intaglio, chine collé, hard cover books, ribbon | 111 x 139cm

Life is not a rose garden | 2026 | hand drawn , digitally coloured, 1:1 unique giclee print on museum grade paper | 120 x 80cm

I just need a moment | 2024 | acrylic on canvas | 61 x 91cm

Through the night | 2026 | oil and graphite on canvas | 153 x 122cm

Untitled experience | 2024 | crochet quilt | 125 x 125cm

Follow me | 2026 | acrylic on canvas | 79 x 79cm

Big kid | 2026 | acrylic on linen | 101.5 x 101.5cm

Random conversations between two lovers | 2026 | collage in recycled bottle tops | 123 x 94cm

Brushstrokes of identity - self portrait | 2025 | oil on canvas | 98 x 73cm

Our quiet languages | 2026 | oil and gouache on board | 122 x 122cm

Slow violence (Palisades, LA) | 2025 | embroidery thread on thermal blanket | 118 x 100cm

Collapse on the South Coast | 2026 | lino on woodpanel | 85 x 110cm

Cultural burn | 2024 | acrylic on canvas | 62.5 x 122.5cm

Operation inflation | 2026 | pigment-based inks on acid-free cotton rag | 155 x 155cm

My cousin Nate and the 456 Club | 2025 | Video | 5min 32sec

Byrrill Creek | 2025 | watercolour on paper | 60 x 90cm

We are still creating ourselves II | 2026 | acrylic on canvas | 99 x 150cm

Ghost forest | 2026 | bushfire ink and joss sticks on mulberry paper | 87 x 116cm