The 2021 Art Prize Gallery
A big thank you to all of our supporters and participants in 2021 inaugural Whitsundays Art Prize Exhibition.
The Exhibition took place as part of the Whitsundays Arts Festival on the Airlie Beach Foreshore on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 September 2021. The Art Prize Floor Walk commenced at 10:30am on Saturday 18 September, and members of the public were invited to accompany judge Tracey Heathwood, Director of Artspace Mackay, who shared her thoughts on the prize winners.
2021 WINNERS
WINNER - Regional Arts Prize Lisa Ashcroft | Bleached Blue Coral Reef
WINNER - Local Artist Award Trudy Hastings | Hazy Days
WINNER - YOUNG ARTIST AWARD Mikayla Parrotta | Cid Harbour
WINNER - PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD Katy Woollatt | The Dive
WINNER - ASPIRING ARTIST AWARD Jasmin Carter | Assimilations Of The Self
HIGHLY COMMENDED AWARD Howard Butler | Whale Journey
2021 FINALISTS
Stephanie Allen | Curiosities of the Deep
Michelle Jae Andrews | Voyage to New Opportunities
Lisa Ashcroft | Bleached Blue Coral Reef | $2,000
Charlene Attard | Birthday fun at St Helens Beach
Jennifer Beaumont | A Metaphor for Life
Pamela Berrigan | Parrot Fish
Jodie Biddle | Welcome to Paradise
Graham Brownell | Stormy Golflinks
Rikki Buchanan | The Lake Guy
Howard Butler | Whale Journey
Chloe Canard | Ocean Village
Catherine Carolan | Lush
Jasmin Carter | Assimilations Of The Self
Donna Cassidy | Business as Usual!
Vanessa Cochrane | She Floats
Sarah Dobe | Coral Reflections
Catherine Dowden | Pouch of Happiness
Alyce Duhs | It Was Twilight
Pam Finlay | Micro Meets the Macro
Linda Forrester | Monolith
Scott Franko | Hydeaway Bay
Claudia Gray | Hook Island
Pamela (Pammie) Harrison | Taking a Break on the Foreshore
Trudy Hastings | Hazy Days
Jo Higgins | Resonance from the Heart
Julia Higgs | Place as transient
Jason Keehn | Fauna
Tracy Kennedy-Shanks | Reef Inspector
Lyn Laver-Ahmat | Quiet Lagoon
Belinda McKenzie | Whale Song
Barbara Moore | Fragile
Andrea Moser | Whitsunday Wonders | $600
Desma Munro | Beautiful Above Stunning Below | $950
Kerry Naughton-Menzies | Harmony | $1,000
Mikayla Parrotta | Cid Harbour
Brigitte Peel | Kaleidoscope
Sam Pennisi | Eye on the Family
Cam Power | A Whit-Sunday
Ronelle Reid | We are not at the end just yet
Crystal Rice | Midnight Chorus
Amanda Sadler Asads | Limitless Bliss
Andrew Sewell | Whitsundays Daydreaming
Penny Rogan | Pathway On The Beach
Carol Shannon | Paradise Found
Bradley Short | Pentecost Island
Issabella Southward | Our Paradise
Julie Stirling | Footloose
Kerri-may Tanner | Cassowary
Taralea | Treasured Reef
Russell Watts | Dhuna Dreaming
Robin Wilson | Serenity At The Whitsundays
Katy Woollatt | The Dive
Guzaliya Xavier | Palms