Locki Humphrey, Vault Stool
Mahala Hill, Apocalypse Unfolding VII
Rachel Mackay, Crabs nipping at my flesh beneath the surface
Sally Mayman, Liminal Zone, Wontanella
Trent Jensen & Tanya Singer, Manta Pilti - Dry Sand Low Chair
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Congratulations to all finalists selected to exhibit in the 2025 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize, from 1 August – 14 September.
Nearly 200 finalists were selected from almost 700 entries across Australia, submitted in the 3 categories.
Discover how artists and designers are responding to our environment and contributing to positive change.
Finalists will exhibit their work across 3 venues from 1 August to 14 September, Tuesday to Sunday, 10am-5pm:
- Manly Art Gallery & Museum
- Curl Curl Creative Space
- Mona Vale Creative Space Gallery
Young 7-12 years
- Camilo Budet Trescott, Ancestral Sunrise
- Audrey Chen, Shy Forest
- Beatrix Dennison, I Love North Head
- Constance Fan, Golden Treasure
- Abbey Fu, The Stranded Penguin
- Iris Ha, The Ocean's Secret Message
- Zoe Jiang, Witch House
- Yichen (Jasmine) Jiang, Imagination
- Alice Juwono, The Green Fennec Fox in Bushland
- Phoenix Libotte, Broken Seasons
- Saffron Libotte, Turtle Island
- Felicia Lin-Xie, Living Fossil - Bulloak Jewel Butterfly
- Anahid Mezoghlian, The Busy Penguin
- Louie (Lucinda) Ornelas, Squawks the Grubinator
- Sophie Poulier, Frogzilla
- Sophie Poulier, Captain Cassowary
- Vivian Qin, Don't Cut Our Home
- Theodore Saldan, The Ugly Face of Pollution
- Lia Shachar, Fruit Break
- Ellory Tan, Beneath and Beyond the Circle of Life
- Aria Tan, A Cute Seahorse
- Eva Wheeler, The Worker Bee
- Màira Widholzer with Florence, Rachel, Aarna, Ava and Clara, The Sisters Tree
- Evangeline Wrightson, Great Barrier Grief
- Felix Xu, Log-head Shark
- Angie Xu, Nature's Room
- Brandon Xu, Hell in Paradise
- Blair Xu, Guardians of the Ocean
- Emmie Yao, The Final 50
- Kloe Zhou, Reality Check
Young 13-18 years
- Luca Bianchinotti, My Perfect Summer
- Jennifer Charlton, 2050
- Ivy Chen, Filet-O-Fish
- Claire Childs, Once Loved
- Arabella Czerwenka, Coral Seascape
- Banjo Evans, Discarded World, Fading Creatures 01
- Oscar Gilliland, Long Reef Headland in Clay
- Miley Hiraizumi, Ocean of Digestion
- Madeline Hollier, The Emu
- Laura Hou, Australia's Sounds
- Isla Jessup, Ingalalla
- Sierra Knights, Tide Riders
- Abigail Lee, The Tree and Waratah
- Suzie Leys, Mandy's Gourmet Delicacies
- Ching Ka Janelle Lin, The Last Branch
- Zoe Maryska, River Songs of Life
- Chelsea Moss, Ignorant Bliss
- Meera Nirmalendran, Nature's Bounty
- Serena Plane, The Places We Have Been
- Clare Powell, Irrawong
- Willamina Powell, Natural Renaissance
- Claire Power, Beneath Our Actions
- Angie Procter, Seahorse
- Emma Sproule, Slipping Glimpse
- Yudie Sun, Mother Nature's Wrath
- Ali Talebian, The Price of Thirst
- Eden Xu, Numbat
Art
- Luke Abdallah & Izumi Nago, Rhythm in Nature (Bilpin)
- Gus Armstrong & Peter Swain, Creek Dreaming W/Peter Swain
- Tara Axford, Held in Balance
- Rina Bernabei, Groundings
- Camille Blyth, The Secret Keepers
- Lisa Cahill, Effervesce
- Gordon R Carmichael, Anthroposcream
- The Arthitects – Gary Carsley & Renjie Teoh, Wambuul (Proclamation Park Bathurst)
- Caroline Christie-Coxon, The Unburdening
- Jan Cleveringa, What Rubbish
- Sadhbha Cockburn, Earth Bound
- Samuel Condon, Six Days in Dordogne
- Penny Coss, Cross Currents 2024
- Danielle Creenaune, Resounding Vale
- Laura Curcio, Best Before
- Julia Davis, In Relation: To the Heart
- Chris De Rosa, Bloom/Doom
- Tamara Dean, Blowin’ in the Wind
- Shoufay Derz, The Maws - Emptiness (Part 3)
- Joel Dickens, Rhizome
- Susie Dureau, Powerful Owl
- Helen Earl, Landscape Embodied
- Julie Edgar, Veiled
- Matt Elliott & David Collins, Changing of Tides (Crosslands Exchange)
- Claire Ellis, Hot Air
- Bernadette Facer, Low Water
- Dongwang Fan, Nine Gum Trees
- Nic Fern, Frayed Ideals
- Louise Fowler-Smith, Extinction Solastalgia
- Guy Fredericks, Lasso 1 & 2
- Kath Fries, Beguiling (Lean on Me)
- Phillip George, Swimming to Hades
- Maddison Gibbs Wing, Kin
- Allan Giddy, Abandoned Home
- Genevieve Ginty, The Future
- Marisabel Gonzalez, Field Notes from the Body of the Earth 2
- Maharlina Gorospe-Lockie, Discomfort Food: Sinangag (Garlic Fried Rice)
- Petra Gotthardt, Agony & Apathy
- Tim Gregory, Farmland Landscape C.1990/2025
- Chris Hagen, Apistolaries (Exchange)
- Lee Harrop, Foundation Stone
- Dan Hewitt, Queensie from Dad's Place
- Mahala Hill, Apocalypse Unfolding VII
- Rachel Honnery, Green Between the Trees
- Linda Hume, Kate's Garden
- Jude Hungerford, Arbores Vitae
- Jude Hungerford, Burn 2
- Les Irwig, Ocypode Art
- Derek Jungarrayi Thompson, Maku (Witchetty Grub) Derek’s Story
- Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger, Footprint Convergence - Penguin Highway
- Freddy Ken, Kulata Tjuta - Kungkarangkalpa Freddy's Story
- Bella La Spina, Margin
- James Lai, Paddocks and Vineyards
- Birte Larsen, End Grain
- Ryan Andrew Lee, Anthropocentrism
- Pamela Leung, Yuenyeung 43
- Chrystie Longworth, Jetsam Sentinels
- Daniel Lopez Lomeli, Kodama Variation #3
- Orlando Luminere, Brooklyn #0088
- Amelia Lynch, Flora Strata
- Rachel Mackay, Crabs Nipping at My Flesh Beneath the Surface
- Kathy Mackey, Coastal Drawings (Inverted)
- Negin Maddock, Standing Still
- David Manley, Post-Traumatic Urbanist #14
- Donna Marcus, End of Empire
- Katherine Marmaras, Waste Not, Want Not (Memories)
- Sally Mayman, Liminal Zone, Wontanella
- Georgia McFarland, Poolside #63 (Suburban Dreams)
- Catherine McGuiness & Diane Pirotta, My Parents Always Called Me A Possum
- Milan Milojevic, The Great White Hunter After a Hard Day's Work 1
- Luanne Mitchelmore, Honouring Soil
- Jodie Munday, Gunlindulin - Eel Wiradjuri
- Kendal Murray, Keen Eyed Applied, Hillside Confide
- Ainslie Murray, Not A Problem
- Phillip Muzzall, And If It All Falls Apart, What Then?
- Anne Nginyangnka Thompson, Strong Family Connection
- Julie Nicholson, Water Forms
- Lucy O'Doherty, Car in Blue Storm
- Julie Paterson, The Menindee Memorial Loop
- Meagan Pelham, Bird Land Washy Whale Party
- Lori Pensini, Empty
- Emma Pinsent, Return to Form
- Julien Playoust, Standing by the Gate Set, Old Stringy Bark & Gravel Pit Near the Woolshed
- Shirley Ploog, Salt Lake Wanderings
- Anthony Polkinghorne, Katabasis
- Kim Power, Dyad
- Sandra Pumani, Maku Tjukurpa
- Simon Reece, Resting Sponge
- Margaret Richards, Tjukula Tjuta
- Adam Sébire, Anthroposcene XII: Iceberg Care
- Douglas Schofield, Suburban Tree Tensions
- Gary Shinfield, Remnants
- Patrick Shirvington, Observation of Beauty
- Kris Smith, Tree Litmus
- Emma Sutherland, Totems
- Jane Theau & Ramji Ambrosiussen, Saint Bob and the Swifts
- Carlene Thompson, Tjulpu Kulunypa - Baby Birds
- Thomas Thorby-Lister, Can't See the Forest for the Fields
- Angela Tiatia, Render
- Shonah Trescott, Red Gold
- Jennifer Turpin, CR.E
- Gabriela Villalba, Queenscliff
- Hilary Warren, Banksia Cones
- Ben Waters, A Patchwork of Sunlight
- Rachael Wellisch, Recuperated Material Monuments #23
- Cat Wilson, Just Hanging
- Jason Wing, Save Our Souls
- Mei Zhao, Garden C
Design
- Craig Ashton, Connections
- Jane Bamford, Ceramic Little Penguin Nesting Module
- Luke Batten, Dyad lamp
- Julian Clarkson, Bedridden
- Kate Dorrough, River Costume
- Caren Elliss, Grandiflora Chandelier
- Björn Eriksson, Co-Habitat Coat: Fashion for Nonhuman Kinship
- Diego Faivre, Altare di Casa made in 3669 minutes
- Chloe Ferres, All That Remains (Burial Quilt)
- Maddison Gibbs Wing, Fallen Kin
- Georgia Graham, Like a Virgin
- Anne Greenway, SEGway
- Shawnna Hodgson, Waves
- Locki Humphrey, Vault Stool
- Trent Jansen & Tanya Singer, Manta Pilti | Dry Sand Low Chair
- Marlo Lyda, Turning (Camphor) - Bed & Lamp
- Joanne Odisho, Pathways
- Joanne Odisho, Lume
- Susie Roberts, Star
- Lucile Sciallano, Loose Threads
- Christine Simpson, Hooked
- Jasmine Stein, Phyla
- Ben Styles & Jordan Goren, Caustara
- Lilli Taranto, Transparent Paths: Reframing waste as a precious resource.
- Emma Varga, Hug Me
- Xinze Yu, Emberbloom