Established in 1947, the Mosman Art Prize is Australia's oldest and most prestigious local government art award. It was founded by the artist, architect and arts advocate, Alderman Allan Gamble, at a time when only a small handful of art prizes were in existence in Australia and the community had very little support and few opportunities to exhibit their work.

As an acquisitive art award for painting, the winning artworks collected form a splendid collection of modern and contemporary Australian art, reflecting all the developments in Australian art practice since 1947. Artists who have won the Mosman Art Prize include Margaret Olley, Guy Warren, Grace Cossington Smith, Weaver Hawkins, Nancy Borlase, Lloyd Rees, Elisabeth Cummings, Adam Cullen, Michael Zavros, Natasha Walsh and Salote Tawale.

The 2022 judge of the Mosman Art Prize is Rhana Devenport ONZM. She is the first female director of the Art Gallery South Australia. 

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2022 Winner: 
Jacobus Capone, Spring 2021, 2021. fallen golden wattle and seawater. 

Margaret Olley Commendation Award:
Dianne Tchumut, Turtles Hibernating, 2021. synthetic polymer paint on canvas. 

Allan Gamble Award: 
Eliza Gosse, Almost Kareela, 2021. oil on canvas. 

Guy Warren Emerging Artists' Award:
Sebastian Galloway, Summer Arrangement in Suspended Animation, 2021. oil on copper

image: 2022 Mosman Art Prize, installation view, Mosman Art Gallery. Image courtesy Mosman Art Gallery and © the artists. Photograph: Jacquie Manning.

List of selected finalists: 

Oliver Abbott
Julianne Ross Allcorn
Peter Alwast
Ana Anderson
Michelle Arnott
John Bartley
Anthony Bartok
Yvonne Boag
Dean Brown
Johnathon World Peace Bush
Jacobus Capone
Donovan Christie
Janis Clarke
Sean Crowley
Jedda Daisy Culley
Dagmar Cyrulla
Ham Darroch
Alison Dillon
Maz Dixon
Ken Done
Nanou Dupuis
Annalisa Ferraris
Jules Forth
Emily Galicek
Sebastian Galloway
Bob Gibson
Katie Glaskin
Eliza Gosse
Iorna Grear
Anna Gregg
Tim Gregory
Nicola Higgins
Susan Hipgrave
Ryan Hoffmann
Yoshio Honjo
Jude Hotchkiss
Emily Imeson
Phil James
Dylan Jones
Alan Jones
Solomon Kammer
Simone Kennedy
Yasmin Khadembashi
Frankie LA
Kenneth Lambert
Anne Leisner
Belem Lett
Margaret Loy Pula
Rachel Mackay
Deborah Marks
Darcy McCrae
James Mcgrath
Simon McGrath
Heidi Melamed
Danielle Milne
Frankie Morgan
Xanthe Muston
Lauren O'Connor
Renata Pari-Lewis
Laura Patterson
Sid Pattni
Sophie Perez
Thea Anamara Perkins
Maciek Perkosz
Louis Pratt
Alice Pulvers
Anton Pulvirenti
Marisa Purcell
Bree Riley
Sarah Robson
Jude Rose
Jennifer Rosnell
Paul Ryan
Sally Ryan
Khaled Sabsabi
Wendy Sharpe
Michael Simms
Elwira Skowronska
Ben Soedradjit
Phil Stallard
Mike Staniford
Morgan Stokes
Dianne Tchumut
Michael Thomson
Neil Tomkins
Datsun Tran
Craig Waddell
Judith Wright
Aliki Yiorkas
Holly Yoshida
Peggy Zephyr

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Image: Installation view, 2022 Mosman Art Prize. Photo by Jacquie Manning