2026 Mosman Art Prize
Now in its 79th 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 Blair French, CEO of Murray Art Museum Albury.
| Artist First Name | Artist Last Name | Title of work | Medium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abby | Chambers | Rivendell #3 | Synthetic polymer paint on board |
| Adam | Oste | Under the Cliffs | Oil on canvas |
| Adam | Lee | Ossuary | Watercolour and ink on paper |
| Adam | Mandarano | I like you my brother | Acrylic on cardboard |
| Alasdair | McLuckie | Every Robert Eggers Film | synthetic polymer paint on canvas |
| Amelia | Carroll | girlwithhoopearring-1 | Oil on canvas |
| Angus | Hamra | Southern Cross | oil on board |
| Anna | Hoyle | capitalist boobs stay connected for team safety cameras | gouache and acrylic on wood panel |
| Archy | Obradovic | Aqueduct | oil on canvas |
| Belem | Lett | Body Language | oil on aluminium panel |
| Bridie | Gillman | Staircase to nowhere | Oil on linen |
| Christine | Webb | Harbour Breeze | Synthetic Polymer paint on Canvas |
| Damian | Showyin | Flowers and Trees | Acrylic paint on recycled textile |
| Dane | Lovett | Numbers | synthetic polymer paint on canvas |
| Danny | Morse | AM | Acrylic on canvas |
| Dapeng | Liu | Somewhere Else | Oil on canvas |
| Eleni | Ioakimidis | Spring Pepper | acrylic gouache, spray paint, & oil stick on canvas |
| Elizabeth | Pulie | #79 (Family Portrait as a House Plant Repainted) | synthetic polymer paint and oil on linen |
| Emma | Fielden | Trembling Ground | Malachite, lapis lazuli, spinal and oil on linen |
| Flin | Sharp | winnowing (Kozyrev mirror) | acrylic on canvas |
| George | Cooley | Opal Country | Acrylic on Board |
| George | Goodnow | Buzz Cut' | Oil paint on canvas |
| Georgia | Spain | The different ways to ward off words (After NS) | Acrylic on canvas |
| Ham | Darroch | Uccello | synthetic polymer paint on canvas |
| Hayley Megan | French | Patterns for a Home (Some Thoughts I Couldn't Put Down) | Acrylic on canvas |
| Heath Minjin | Wilson | Burn Off | Acrylic on Linen |
| Helen | McCarthy Tyalmuty | Gathering Mussels | Acrylic on Linen |
| Ildiko | Kovacs | Edging form | Oil stick and oil paint on plywood |
| Ilona | Kiss | Milky Way | oil on canvas |
| India | Jablonski | A boat view of Mount Yaccaba headlands | Oil on canvas |
| Inga | Dalrymple | Night Saudade | oil on linen |
| Jahnne | Pasco-White | material immortality 18 | earth pigments, reclaimed and recycled oil paint, acrylic, chalk, safflower, madder root, hemp, cotton, paper, crayon, pen on cotton canvas |
| Jennifer | D’Arcy | Metaxy | Oil on cradled panel |
| Joanna | Cole | Fisheman's Basket | oil paint and Conte on marine ply |
| Karen | Brock | Morning Light Sirius Cove | Oil on Clayboard |
| Karen | Black | She is a Machine | Oil and oil pastel on triple primed french polyester with custom made wooden frame |
| Kate | Tucker | No pseudo-satisfyers | Acrylic, acrylic mediums, charcoal on linen, canvas, calico |
| Lei | Feng | 23102025 | acrylic on canvas |
| Liam | Nunan | A body falling | Oil on canvas |
| Loralee | Jade | Its Better If You Dont Look | Pigment on Raw canvas |
| Lottie | Consalvo | I heard you run into the darkness | acrylic on linen |
| Luan | Nguyen | If you saw my shirt | Oil on linen |
| Lucas | Howard | The Wanderer | Oil on linen |
| Luke | Brennan | Untitled 2025 | Acrylic, oil, wax, pencil |
| Mary | Tonkin | By a thread, Kalorama III | oil on birch ply |
| Mary | Gibson | Ngayaku Ngurra | Acrylic on canvas |
| Mary | Clifton | The Swimmer | Oil paint on canvas |
| Matthew | Harris | Brightest of All Time | Ground charcoal and synthetic polymer binder on hessian |
| Max | Ballard | It's a shoes off house | Oil paint on canvas |
| Mia | Boe | The Portal | Synthetic polymer paint on linen |
| Michael | Lindeman | Regression Painting (Genius...) | Finger painted acrylic on mirror |
| Michelle | Belgiorno | Damaged But Not Destroyed | Modelling paste and oil paint on linen |
| Miranda | Hampson | INTERSTICE | Acrylic and ink on cotton canvas (oak float frame) |
| Monica | Rohan | Netted | oil on board |
| Morgan | Stokes | Spectator | Oil and graphite on canvas |
| Nicola | Smith | Two caryatids from the fountain of Acqua Vergine, IV | oil on linen |
| Nicole | Zhang | The Seeking | Acrylic on linen |
| Noel | Mckenna | Strange Parent | Oil on plywood |
| Olivia | Chin | Mt Speculation Resonates | Oil on linen |
| Paul | Gorjan | Another View of Katoomba | Oil on board |
| Peter | Berner | Grove | Acrylic and pencil on plywood |
| Phil | Went | Apricots | Oil on Copper |
| Riley | Beaumont | Coming down | acrylic on linen |
| Robby | Bennett | Dogma, Desire, and Departure | Oil and Charcoal on clear primed cotton |
| Sally | Stokes | moments | oil on canvas |
| Sue | MacLeod-Beere | Glancing Blow | Oil on board |
| Susan | Baird | PORTICO | OIL ON LINEN |
| Tanya | Baily | Footloose | Wastercolour on paper framed |
| Tara | McIntosh | Home | Acrylic, ink, graphite on hessian, with aluminium frame. |
| Teresa | Mula | Seven Sisters Tjukurpa | Acrylic on Linen |
| Thomas | Thorby-Lister | Long Range Forecast (Transmission 07) | Acrylic on Linen, Framed in Aluminium |
| Tina | Havelock Stevens | Should I Stay or Should I Go | synthetic polymer paint on board |
| Tony | Tavares | Supernova | synthetic polymer paint on router carved timber panel |
| Yuanzhou | Zheng | Where Shall We Go From Here | Oil on linen |
