Image credit: Nicola Moss, Where waters flow (2026 Finalist - Art Category)
Image credit: Dennis Del Favero, ifire (2026 Finalist - Design category)
Image credit: Trent Jansen, Manta Pilti Dry Sand Low Chair (2025 Finalist - Design Category)
Image credit: Lilli Waters, Nāga’s Lanterns โคมไฟของนาค (2026 Finalist - Art category)
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Congratulations to all finalists selected to exhibit in the 2026 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize.
170 finalists were selected from over 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 2 venues from 7 August to 20 September, open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am - 5pm:
- Manly Art Gallery & Museum (Art & Design categories)
- Curl Curl Creative Space (Young Artists & Designers category)
Art
- Tully Arnot, Requiem
- Joel Arthur, Landscape Under Maintenance
- Kate Ballis, Ruby
- Michele Barker & Anna Munster, Ecololgies (Arctic)
- Elisa Bartels, Glorians
- Michelle Belgiorno, Tree Talk II
- Patrizia Biondi, Proceed Despite Indeterminate Outcome
- Katherine Boland, Business Man II
- Mark Booth, Anomaly
- Alexander Boynes, Ember
- Stephen Caldis, Sacred Conversation
- Gordon R Carmichael, Wisdom of Place
- Rachel Carroll, Lost
- Katherine Castillo Alférez, Sué (The Sun)
- Fiona Chandler, No Hat No Play
- Anna Cho, The Golden Fissure: Memories of a Sandstone Coast
- Caroline Christie-Coxon, Collapse in Yellow
- Rob Coates, Wakehurst Parkway, Dawn Overlay
- Sadhbha Cockburn, Caught Breath
- Samuel Rush Condon, Paris
- Fiona Currey, Billyard Saltwater Drawing Machine - Manly Collection
- Peter Day, Sculpting the Unseen: Marble Foram 2A
- Tamara Dean, The Hose Won't Reach
- Jake Dempsey, Smells Like Jasmine
- Shoufay Derz, Today I Sing Just for the Sake of Singing (Singing, Even Though My Heart Hurts)
- Damian Dillon, An Ideal for Living
- Kate Dorrough, Calligraphic Language of the River
- Scott Duncan, Choice Quality
- Susie Dureau, Twenty-Six-Seconds
- Banjo Evans, Bless this Mess
- Nic Fern, I could be you, you could be me
- Guy Fredericks, Grevillea Peaches and Cream
- Ariella Friend, White Ramping Fumitory Cache
- Kath Fries, Surging
- Joanna Gambotto, Cat-astrophe
- Nathalie Gautier-Hartog, Hawkesbury River
- Kristy Gordon, Three Water Drawings
- Lee Harrop, I am a rock; I am an Island
- Graeme Hayes, The Bountry Years
- Rachel Honnery & Kat Roma Greer, Summer's End
- Jude Hungerford, All the unpretty things (endangered Giant Gippsland earthworm)
- Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger, North & South
- Roslyn Kean, In the Shadows of Our Cities
- James Lai, Fragments of a Living Terrain
- Pamela Leung, Weight of History: Borne Across Borders
- Dapeng Liu, Coastline, Intervals
- Chrystie Longworth, Stormfront Sentinel
- Joyce Lubotzky, Plastic Plankton
- Negin Maddock, What Remains
- David Manley, Velocitia (Hybrid)
- Donna Marcus, Night Skies
- Matti, Bundanon 2 - The Road Workers
- Georgia McFarland, Contemporary Landscape (Narrabeen)
- Megan McKenzie, 300 Crown Street, Surry Hills
- Asher Milgate, Night and day will never cease
- Nicola Moss, Where Waters Flow 1
- Danka Murray, Warriewood Wetlands Bowl
- Julie Nicholson, Nostalgia
- Penelope Oates, Stages of Being
- Nick Offer, Quintillions
- Raquel Ormella, Today I saw ...
- Anthony Polkinghorne, Clouds
- Catriona Pollard, The Living Circuit
- Louis Pratt, A Sun Burnt Country
- Karla Pringle, Being is, Being with
- Gemma Rasdall, Both Sides (Postcards from Tasmania)
- Nicole Redenbach, Net Loss
- Justine Roche, Ancient Warrior
- Julie-Anne Rogers, The Survivor
- Nadine Schmoll, No. 3 and No. 4 (Sandcastle series)
- Remi Siciliano, Solarised Dirtscape #1
- Jelena Sinik & Carl Stewart, 42°C
- Sam Sonowski, Obama
- Jasna Spiranovic, Bandicoots under the Milky Way
- Anne Starling, Home Comforts
- Bianca Tainsh, Myco-sonification
- Jonathan Tarry, Reflexive Landscape
- Leanne Thompson, Breathe In, Hold
- Alexandra Thorby, Incognizant 10
- Sarah Vanderfield, Happy Birthday Cactus
- Tom Velich, Archaeopteryx
- William Versace, Lego Block Geode
- Lilli Waters, Nāga’s Lanterns โคมไฟของนาค
- Dung-Chuan Wen, 27,203 Kilometres of Contradiction
- Rebecca Whittemore, What the Kitchen Forgets, Cauliflower Leaf
- Shona Wilson, Summer Mantra
- Lisa Woolfe, Strange Things
- Alice Xu, The Anti-Metamorphosis
- Belinda Yee, Poiesis 1
- Anne Zahalka, Adrift
Design
- Tom Butterworth, 1890
- Matthew Curtis, Revitrification Pair
- Dennis Del Favero and collaborators, iFire
- Suzon Fuks, Helix Nebula
- Charli Rose Gerry, Amanita Muscaria Light Study
- Matthew Harkness, Blue Series - Table
- Jamileh Jahangiri, The Kimbriki House of Salvage
- Arthur Koutoulas, Zellipse
- Anna Krispel, Cloth(e)
- Sacha Jacobsen, After Grove
- Trent Jansen & Tanya Singer, Manta Pilti | Dry Sand Low Chair
- Nahum McLean, Stefan Lie & Ben Styles, The Motherboard
- Susan Peacock, Borrowed Bone
- Christian Roth, Time is Ticking
- Tili Snelling, Bioluminescence
- Rhiannon Sothern, Bleached Coral Rings
- Katie Stafford, Breathe Block
- Sairi Yoshizawa, Thrums After Words
- Melinda Young, Tileface - Intruder
- Lucy Zaknic, Spora
Young 7 to 12 years
- Ben Anthony, The Last Leaf
- Zia Bourne, Flying into the Sunset
- Cameron Carson, Kookaburra: Spirit of the Bush
- Ashley Chen, Window to Candyland & Painting to the Human World
- Tiana Chen, My Harmony World
- Yvie Coffin, The Last Pink Moon
- Leo La Delfa, Spotted Pardalote Among the Eucalypts
- Arthur Dowsett, The Endangered Bird
- Elizabeth Drysdale, Nature's Gift
- Jessica Fox, The Fluffy Koala
- Sandy Gao, The Tree Home
- Aidie Hayes, Pelican and Cormorant
- Miko He, Melting World
- Antony Huang, Forest Burn
- Mia Jones, Blue
- Sophia Liu, The Living Landscape
- Zoe Morrison, More than Just a View
- Isabella Niu, The Guardian Below
- Louie Ornelas, Pedro the Cow
- Hunter Paul, Renewal
- Glasha Pochueva, Plastic Explosion
- Sophie Poulier, Holding On
- Torvin Ringl, Tumour Trouble
- Theodore Saldan, The Cost of Urbanization
- Theodore Saldan, Endangered Beauty
- Genevieve Sebastian, Roots of Sustainability
- Neil Sharat, Ecotopia
- Ellory Tan, Verdure
- Ansgar Theden, Making a Comeback
- Victoria Veprik, Tree of Life
- Alex Wang with Leo Wang, Playful Birds
- Amber Wang, No Nature No Future
- Margot Wrightson, Gang-Gang
- Evangeline Wrightson, Small Grey Dot
- Stanley Yang, Where the Finches Fly
- Ella You, What Remains
- Angela Yu, Harmony Across Time
Young 13 to 18 years
- Amelia Brogan, The Strangled Song
- Willow Buckland, Confluence
- Miranda Burns, Banksia Integrifolia
- Addison Carson, Fragile Resilience
- Victoria Dupuit, The Frog Rock
- Elsa Gong, What We Keep
- Shepard Harris, You know what would look really nice here?
- Michael Hopkins, The Parallax
- Rose Jarmain, Fragments of a Divided World
- Lily Keegan, Greyhound
- Ria Kroon, Living Deep
- Suzie Leys, Polluted Pastimes
- Mia Marosa, Under the Microscope a World Uncovered
- Zoe Maryska, Bio-Morphing
- Laura Meng, Man-Made
- Molly Miln, Asian Fishing Cat in Dappled Light
- Freya Moore, Off Grid
- Meera Nirmalendra, Blue Ruin
- Se Jin Oh, Can you spot the difference?
- Elise Simpson, Symbiosis
- Brigitta Turton, Wonders of the world
- Ethan Wang, Frog in Nature
- Rebecca Wu, Nature's Bounty