Mosman Youth Art Prize 2016

Congratulations to the winners of the Mosman Youth Art Prize 2016, an annual competition organised by Mosman Council aimed at encouraging the creative talents of young, aspiring and emerging artists and providing a showcase for their works. The winners of the Mosman Youth Art Prize 2016 were announced on Thursday 21 July 2016 and received over $8,000 in cash prizes and $6,000 in art scholarships, materials and prizes. The works were on exhibition at Mosman Art Gallery from 9 July to 7 August 2016.

Junior Category Prize Winners (Age 12 – 14)

1^st Prize – James Stibilj, Kathryn Joy

2^nd Prize – Izabella Kitching, My sister Rosie

3^rd Prize – Gus Brown, The Gold Ribbon

Highly Commended – Harrison Winslow Kent, Levels

Encouragement Award – Finn Couzner, Buckle Up (Friends of Mosman Art Gallery and HYPE DC awards)

Encouragement Award – Ebony Toke, Bird Watching (Environment and Open Space, Mosman Council award)

Senior Category Prize Winners (Age 15 – 17)

1^st Prize – Casey o’Regan, Caitlan

2^nd Prize – Henry Zhou, Portrait

3^rd Prize – Alyssa Meli, People thought us kids were chasing the light – that’s where they’re wrong – we were running away from the dark…

Highly Commended – Anna McGrath, Anonymous

Encouragement Award – Kathleen O’Hagan, Forget me not (Friends of Mosman Art Gallery award)

Encouragement Award – Katerina Xenos, The Heart of the Reef  (Environment and Open Space, Mosman Council award)

Encouragement Award – Gabriella Shaoni, Boxed In (HYPE DC award)

Tertiary Category Prize Winners (Age 18 – 21)

1^st Prize – Jami Blood, Notebook #12

2^nd Prize – Michaela Turancova, Seal Protection Act – designed to make murder respectable

3^rd Prize – Georgia Murray, On Return and What Remains 1

Highly Commended – Lilli Stromland, The thing came into being

Encouragement Award – Vanessa Boil Musumeci, Dyslexia (Friends of Mosman Art Gallery award)

Encouragement Award – Eleni Atzemis, Kaleidoscope (Environment and Open Space, Mosman Council award)

Encouragement Award – Georgia Brown, Reverse Taxonomy – we are not as different as we think (Mosman Art Society and HYPE DC awards)

Encouragement Award – Georgia Murray, On Return and What Remains 1 (Australian Watercolour Institute award)

Julian Ashton Art School Winners

Summer School scholarship – Harriet Mitchell, Romy

Full art scholarship – Ali Pluss, Dance

National Art School Short Course winner

George Fell, Thirsty Country

Selected Entries

Sponsors

Gold Sponsor

Silver Sponsors

Kindly Supported by

The Australian Watercolour Institute
Friends of Mosman Art Gallery
The Rotary Club of Mosman
Mosman Art Society / Art Smart
Hype DC