2025 Mosman Art Prize
Now in its 78th year, the Mosman Art Prize is Australia’s longest-running municipal art award and is widely regarded as the most prestigious and relevant painting prize in the country. Established in 1947, the Prize has become a defining platform for contemporary Australian painting; a place where ideas, identity, and the spirit of our times are expressed through the enduring power of paint.
This year’s winning painting will go into the Collection and sit alongside such esteemed artists as Cressida Campbell, Grace Cossington Smith, Lucy Culliton, Guan Wei, Adam Cullen, Nicholas Harding, Lloyd Rees, Guy Warren, Margo Lewers, Jumaadi, Elisabeth Cummings, Natasha Walsh, Michael Zavros and Margaret Olley – who was the inaugural winner in 1947.
This year’s judge is Justin Paton, Head Curator of International Art at the Art Gallery of NSW.
View the 2025 Mosman Art Prize List of Works
There will be two artist talks Wednesday 27 August, 6-8pm and Wednesday 15 October, 6-8pm. Find booking details here.
There will be a Highlights Tour by our knowledgeable Gallery Guides on Sunday 2 November. Booking details will be available closer to the date.
List of Mosman Art Prize Finalists
Mosman Art Prize Finalists.csv
| First Name | Last Name | Artwork title | Medium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marion | Abraham | Bliss | oil and copper leaf on board |
| Gene | A'Hern | Dawn chorus | oil on board |
| Matthew | Allen | Crimson Topped Grid | Acrylic, oil, polished graphite on linen |
| Susan | Andrews | Blink: Red, Blue, Black | Synthetic polymer paint and Marble Dust on Marine Plywood |
| Mostafa | Azimitabar | Can you hear me? | Painted with a toothbrush, oil and coffee on linen. |
| Michelle | Belgiorno | Nature's Struggle | oil paint on linen |
| Jo | Bertini | Language without wind | oil on French polyester canvas |
| Seth | Birchall | Alila | oil on canvas |
| Karen | Black | Internal monologue (Diptych) | Oil on canvas |
| Amber | Boardman | The Storytellers | oil on canvas |
| Andrew | Browne | An Apparition | Oil on Linen |
| Johnathon World Peace | Bush | Pope Francis, 2024 | Locally source ochre on linen |
| Annabel | Butler | Elisabeth in the big sofa | gouache on canvas |
| Mitch | Cairns | Opera House | oil on linen |
| Mark Maurangi | Carrol | Blue boat ( crowd on the island of mangaia) | Oil enamel, permanent marker on linen |
| Nick | Collerson | Babooon Baboooon | Oil on canvas |
| Lottie | Consalvo | Devine blooming, better than God | Acrylic on hessian and hardboard |
| Nancy | Constandelia | From this window, like the moon, I keep sending news secretly | acrylic on italian linen |
| Yvette | Coppersmith | Seated portrait with cat and jonquils | oil and marble dust on jute |
| Matt | Coyle | Mother 1 | acrylic and enamel on canvas |
| Sean | Crowley | Mango tree | Soft pastel on Saunders Waterford paper, framed in recycled Oregon |
| Ken | Done | Striped sail | oil and acrylic on linen |
| Blak | Douglas | Fait accompli | Synthetic polymer paints on linen |
| James | Drinkwater | Piano Nobile (reprise 1) | oil on linen |
| Ella | Dunn | Everybody wants to win | Oil on linen |
| Emily | Galicek | Sampler (design for a ceiling) | Synthetic polymer on canvas |
| Annette | Galstaun | Pterodactyl - she emerges from the sky | Watercolour pencil, Gouache, ink, coffee, Gold Leaf and Glitter on Arches Watercolour paper |
| Claudia | Greathead | Moth Clock | oil on linen |
| David | Griggs | The Unicorn and the Window | oil on canvas |
| Celia | Gullett | Variations series VI | oil on linen canvas |
| Miranda | Hampson | Daughters of the Tide (the Gadi Fisherwomen) | Acrylic and ochre on cotton canvas |
| Katherin | Hattam | Still Pictures | Oil on linen |
| Tamara | Henderson | The weighing of the petals on the floral flaneur | Oil paint, canvas, wood, steel mesh, paper clay, pigment, PVA |
| Drew Connor | Holland | excerpts (child) | synthetic polymer, toner, watercolour, graphite, oil, archival varnish on used bedsheets |
| Phil | James | Still Life mkll (Radical Survival) | oil on canvas |
| Adrian | Jangala Robertson | Family in Yalpirakinu | synthetic polymer paint on canvas |
| Jumaadi | Jumaadi | Dalam Gerimis [In the mist] | Acrylic on animal hide |
| Jordy | Kerwick | Priceless Advice | oil and acrylic on canvas |
| Daniel | Kim | Thom Roberts with a Pink Background | Oil on linen |
| Ildiko | Kovacs | Penumbra | Oil and oilstick on ply |
| Brigita | Lastauskaite | Sea Rhymes | acrylic on canvas |
| Belem | Lett | Parcel | oil, gesso, marble dust, pigment on aluminium composite panel |
| Richard | Lewer | It feels like one of those days you could stay in bed (after Guernica) | Acrylic paint on brass |
| Rachel | Mackay | Chimera 01 | Oil on canvas |
| Euan | Macleod | Shag Rock | Oil on polyester |
| Helen Tyalmuty | McCarthy | Lost Landmarks | Acrylic on linen |
| James | McGrath | Floating Still Life 11 | Oil on Canvas |
| Catherine | McGuiness | Garden Garden Flowers | Acrylic on Canvas |
| Rob | McHaffie | Night walk with powerful owls | Oil on linen |
| Noel | Mckenna | Untitled (field with five horses and moon) | Oil on canvas |
| Sanné | Mestrom | Support Structures | oil, acrylic and gouache canvas, with bronze particle paint (bronze filaments suspended in the binder) |
| Dulcie | Nanala | Wilkinkarra | acrylic on canvas |
| Kirsty | Neilson | The Violet Crumble | oil on board |
| Oscar | Nimmo | Hybrid 02 | Acrylic on Jute |
| Catherine | O'Donnell | Echoes of Home #14 | Oil on linen |
| Madeleine | Pfull | Tartan | oil on linen |
| Jason | Phu | i had impure thoughts about my neighbours wife and god sent down a waterfall of fire, coal and molten rock/i prayed to the moon and stars to seek revenge on god but forgot to wear my pants and forgot to do my maths homework that day, my doodle was hanging out/mother earth punished me with a never ending rain and to walk her lush green hills bearing a pole with two leaky buckets, woe is me, oh woe is me, woe is me | acrylic on polycotton |
| Tim | Price | Life’s On Time | Synthetic polymer paint on polyester |
| Thom | Roberts | Moustache Beard (Dusty Ansell) | Acrylic on Canvas |
| Caroline | Rothwell | Adam and Eve (after Dürer) | Structural nylon, composite materials, pigments, inks and mixed media, stretched |
| Ondine | Seabrook | Snorkel Dorks | Marble dust and acrylic on canvas |
| Wendy | Sharpe | Self Portrait with Monsters | Oil and Acrylic on Linen |
| Damian | Showyin | Opera House, black and white, happy, quiet, slow painting | Acrylic on Cardboard |
| Narmada Dianne | Smith | Indian Grid | OIL on CANVAS |
| Morgan | Stokes | Still Life With Flowers | Watercolour on linen, copper tacks |
| Pauline | Sunfly | Mulupuku | acrylic on canvas |
| Intan | Teriaki | Sunday Market | Acrylic, charcoal & graphite on acrylic paper |
| Imants | Tillers | Solitary Plume | synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 12 canvasboards |
| Julie | Vinci | Keeping the Aspidistra thriving | Oil and charcoal on linen |
| Lily | Walker | Onawa and Bed | Oil paint on canvas |
| Amber | Wallis | Invisible woman turned into glowing daughter | Oil on linen |
| Louise | Weaver | Ecstatic horizon | synthetic polymer emulsion, iridescent pigment, Japanese kozo natural paper, linen and cotton thread on linen |
