ABOUT REDLAND ART AWARDS
The Redland Art Awards is a biennial contemporary painting competition. Entries are open to artists who are Australian citizens or permanent residents, who currently reside in Australia, and are aged 18 years or over at the opening of the prize on Tuesday 5 May, 2026.
In 2026 the Redland Art Awards primary award is an acquisitive prize of $20,000.
The second prize is $6,000 and the third prize is $3,000.
Additionally, there is the Meredith Foxton People’s Choice Award, proudly sponsored by Redland Yurara Art Society Inc, of $1,000 and the RAMP Member’s Choice Award of $500.
Entries Opened: Tuesday 5 May 2026
Entries Closed: Monday 21 September 2026 at 3pm
REDLAND ART AWARDS 2026 FINALISTS’ EXHIBITION
The Redland Art Awards 2026 finalists’ exhibition presents the judging panel’s selection of outstanding works from this year’s entries. Winners, including the recipient of the major acquisitive prize, will be selected by the lead judge and announced at the gala opening event on Friday 27 November 2026.
The Meredith Foxton People’s Choice award will be announced on the last day of the exhibition, Friday, 22 January, 2027.
Redland Art Awards 2026 Open Event: 6pm, Friday 27 November 2026
Bookings open Monday 2 November 2026
Judges Talk and Morning Tea: 10am, Sunday 29 November 2026
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Redland Art Awards 2026 finalists are:
Adriane Strampp, Evening Garden, Somerset, 2025, Oil, VIC
Aleja Hine, Holding it Together, 2026, Oil, QLD
Amber Simpson, Still Waters Run Deep, 2025, Mixed Media, QLD
Anthony Quidong, The Offering, 2026, Oil, QLD
Arthur De LaForcade, Xiang Shan Station, 2025, Oil, QLD
Bernadette Mollison, The Weight of Responsibility, 2025, Mixed Media, QLD
Beth J. Leach, Lullaby for a Tempest, 2026, Oil, QLD
Bryan An, Morning Commute, 2025, Oil, NSW
Cassandra-lyn Palmer, The Hills Around The Gap, 2026, Mixed Media, QLD
Catherine George, Despite the Storm, 2026, Oil, QLD
Christopher R. Inwood, UNTITLED 9, 2026, Oil, QLD
Cosima Scales, Fabric couch, 2026, Oil, QLD
Emily Day, The More You Find, 2026, Acrylic, QLD
Evie Adasal, Marigold, 2025/26, Acrylic, NSW
Heath Minjin Wilson, Ant Hills, 2026, Acrylic, NSW
Jared Fountain, Scott in an Old Straw Hat, 2026, Oil, QLD
Jenny Herbert-Smith, What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare, 2026, Acrylic, NSW
Jeska Valk, Composure Through Conduction; A Self Portrait, 2026, Oil, QLD
Jessica Nothdurft, Mother’s Milk, 2026, Acrylic, QLD
Jo Cochrane, Oh It’s Low Tide at Adder Rock, 2026, Oil, QLD
Joan Hurtado, Follow Your Path, 2026, Mixed Media, QLD
Joanne Currie Nalingu, River Mountain Flow, 2026, Acrylic, QLD
Jordy Sosnowski, Just One More, 2025, Acrylic, QLD
Jude Taggart Roberts, Suck-it-Up, 2026, Gouache, QLD
Judith Flavelle, Two a Pair, 2026, Acrylic, QLD
Kevin Chin, Unwinding, 2025, Oil, VIC
Kym Mullen, Eighteen Miles, 2026, Acrylic, QLD
Lars Vester, Battle of the Senses, 2025, Oil, QLD
Leigh Schoenheimer, RE_coup, 2026, Acrylic, QLD
Lianna Wiley, Young Farmer, 2026, Oil, QLD
Linda Zucco, Building Bridges, 2025, Oil, QLD
Lyn Bartolo, Hanging Out, 2025, Watercolour, QLD
Michael Cusack, Levine, 2026, Oil, NSW
Min-Woo Bang, The Weight of Time, 2026, Oil, NSW
Nick Glade-Wright, A Memory of Rain, 2026, Oil, TAS
Nick Offer, Frontier, 2026, Mixed Media, ACT
Odessa Mahony-de Vries, Warmth, 2026, Oil, QLD
Paul Turner, Perception Rebuilds the World, 2026, Oil, VIC
Paula Irene Payne, Long Shadows on Litchfield, 2025, Acrylic, QLD
Phil Hayes, in plain sight, 2026, Oil, VIC
Phuong Ly, Soft Rainlight, 2025, Watercolour, QLD
Purple Chang, The Rabbit Escaped, 2026, Oil, QLD
Rob Bartolo, Traverse Transience, 2026, Oil, VIC
Robert Gear, New Order, 2026, Oil, WA
Steven Onley, The Crucifixion of Princess Leah and the Parable of the Two Darth Vader Fish, 2026, Acrylic, QLD
Svea Wan-Ching Chang, Blooming Femininity, 2026, Acrylic, VIC
Therese King, Illawarra Flame Tree, 2026, Acrylic, QLD
Vanessa Wallace, Synaesthetic Still Life, 2026, Acrylic, QLD
Violet Bond, Bones in the Hill, 2026, Mixed Media, NT
Zoe Sernack, Listening to the Land, 2026, Acrylic, NSW
Redland Art Awards is proudly supported by:
Redland City Council | Redland Art Gallery, Redland Yurara Art Society Inc.