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Professional Artist Winner Gaypalani Wanambi – Dawurr (Pictured) Emerging Artist Winner Chris Gleisner – Sculpted Triangles (Pictured) Indigenous Emerging Artist Winner Nancy Long Nungarrayi and Rene Long Nungarrayi – Pereltye (Pictured)


Entries for the 2025 Art Prize will open in November 2024

Key dates:

  • Entries open: 20 November 2024
  • Entries close: 5 March 2025
  • Finalists announced: 8 May 2025
  • Opening Night: 20 June 2025
  • Exhibition of Finalists: 21 June to 6 July 2025


2024 Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize

The Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize is an annual acquisitive prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established women artists in Australia. It is the highest value professional artist prize for women in Australia. There are three prize categories – the Professional Artist Prize of $35,000, the Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000 and the Indigenous Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000. There is also a People’s Choice Award of $2,000 plus an art pack valued at $500. Join us as we celebrate the finest women's talent in Australia.


Congratulations to our 2024 Winners


Professional Artist Winner

Gaypalani Wanambi – Dawurr

Emerging Artist Winner

Chris Gleisner – Sculpted Triangles

Indigenous Emerging Artist Winner

Nancy Long Nungarrayi and Rene Long Nungarrayi – Pereltye


Congratulations to the 2024 Highly Commended Recipients


Professional Artist category

Holly Macdonald – Return

Sofya Gollan – Threshold

Emerging Artist category

Annabel Lahz – Conversations

Peta West – Halcyon Song

Indigenous Emerging Artist category

Margaret Smith - Waru (Fire)


Congratulations to the 2024 Professional Artist Finalist (People's Choice Award)

Zara Collins - Sensing Lost Memories


Congratulations to our 2024 Finalists. Please scroll down to view the 117 Finalists.

VIEW 2024 FINALISTS


Congratulations to our 2024 Finalists


Professional Finalists



Divine
Marion Abraham


To curve and to cross
Gabrielle Adamik


Stilled Composition 118
Kelly Austin


Ficus Albipila
Kate Ballis


water the same temperature as the air
Emma Beer


Patience
Michaye Boulter


Minymaku Inma (Women's Song)
Betty Campbell


To Fill the Hollow AAR_78C
Barbara Campbell


Ngayuku Ngura (My Country)
Betty Chimney


Patches, falling
Nadine Christensen


Sensing Lost Memories
Zara Collins


Rituals of remembrance
Carolyn Craig


Rising Water
Tamara Dean


Sovereign Sisters
Eva Fernandez, Dianne Jones


Materialised
Jan Downes


It matters what ideas we use to think other ideas
Emily Floyd


Pleasure
Hannah Gartside


Eurotipodean Blue Apparition
Anna Glynn


Threshold
Sofya Gollan


Encyclopaedia of Real Space
Gail Hastings


My Nearby List
Katherine Hattam


The Raven
Anna-Wili Highfield


Spotted Bowerbird Egg
Leila Jeffreys


Youturn, 2024
Natasha Johns-Messenger


Encounter I from Re-Orient series
Pia Johnson


Spectrum of Rhetoric
Roslyn Kean


Prudence in the Daintree Room
Stacey Keating


32 Elkhorn drawings
Jennifer Keeler-Milne


Bush Turkey Story
Genevieve Kemarr Loy


Yam Seeds
Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray


House & Garden
Tracey Lamb


Return
Holly Macdonald


The red thread of fate interrupted
Gabby Malpas


Uncertain Thought Forms
Deborah Marks


guuma-li / Gather II
Juanita Mclauchlan


The Merkin
Aleisa Miksad


Prop Store
Rachel Milne


Women's Ceremony And Bush Medicine
Colleen Ngwarraye Morton


Tjintjintjin
Debra Nakamarra


Direction System II
Nadia Odlum


Where the Grass Sways
Maricelle Olivier


mmms 10
Jahnne Pasco-White


Wheels Keep On Turning
Liz Payne


Dusk, Disquiet
Kirsteen Pieterse


Shadow Lines
Marisa Purcell


Blue Highway #60
Helen Smith


Looking Inside Stromboli Volcano/Night Skinny Dipping
Bec Smith


Resolution
Kevina-Jo Smith


Still Life ll
Adriane Strampp


Infinitely forwards
Meagan Streader


Primordial
Julie Sundberg


Murunpa, South of Lake Mackay
Pauline Sunfly


Wall Work: Hanging with Two Balls
Kathy Temin


Rêve
Clare Thackway


Almost Everything
Rosemary Valadon


Aflame
Savanhdary Vongpoothorn


The Voyeur (formerly Untitled)
Natasha Walsh


Dawurr
Gaypalani Wanambi


Self Portrait with bananas
Allie Webb


Marrapinti
Kim West Napurrula


We already know how to build a time machine
Jodie Whalen


Metamorphosis on Ash Island
Vera Zulumovski





Emerging Finalists



The Harmonic of the Rays, 2023
Rae Begley


Up
Fiona Bowring


A snake skin on Railay beach
Olivia Chin


Botanical Dash
Vittoria Cugno


The Long Drive
Emily Dabron


Hush I
Lorraine Dean


The Pill
Jamie-Lee Garner


Sculpted Triangles
Chris Gleisner


Grey Day - St Vincent's
Emily M Gordon


Micrographia
Sue Grose-Hodge


Deconstructed Painting Yellow
Graziela Guardino


The Un-naming of Things #1
Alana Hampton


Fabricated Vessel 1
MeiMei Hodgkinson


Bloom and Brevity
Sophie Hoo


The Meeting
Lynn Hughes


Chess Set to Pepper Mill a Gathering of Misunderstood Glamour
Kristy Hussey


After the Penguin Tour, Low Head
Angela Knight


"Spoons, keys and Cockatoo feather"
Elena Kolotusha


Conversations
Annabel Lahz


the banksia tree
Raewyn Lawrence


Distant Memories
Seimi Lee


One
Karen Lee


Stop
Miranda Leung


Girlhood and What Remains
Joyce Lubotzky


The New Drifters Meet the Aided Eye
Joyce Lubotzky


Field Guides (Summer)
Brigiat Maltese


Cycles
Katie Masonwells


Submerging entities
Emma Matthews


A Balancing Act
Sarah McGrath


Summer Again, Culburra Beach
Luanne Mitchelmore


What are you guys looking for?
Libby Moore


At the Crossroads (Frances St)
Clare Mueller


Stories We Wear
Catherine Nguyen-Hoang


Healer: Chrysanthemum
Yuria Okamura


Time Worn
Vicki Osmond


A sign, fence and horses
Lucy Ray


Guardian
Justine Roche


The Boulevard
Jo Ryan


1 in 6
Ellen Schlobohm


Just a glitch
Lucile Sciallano


ESSE
Marianne Sebetova


5 months
Anna Speirs


Jewel 1.2
Lilli Strömland


Kangaroo Paws and Blue Gum
Bronwyn Van de Graaff


Black sails on arrival
Sonia Vuchich


Halcyon Song
Peta West


Victoria Road
Bianca Wilson





Indigenous Emerging Finalists



Taking Kids For A Ride
Dalissa Brown


Ngarta-kiira (to return the Country) #2
Zena Cumpston


Ceremony
Jessie Kemarr Peterson


Pereltye
Nancy and Rene Long Nungarrayi


Nyingka (zebra finch)
Donna McNamara Purrula


Womens Ceremonies
Jodie Munday


Waru (Fire)
Margaret Smith


Pantu (Salt Lake)
Janice Stanley


 



Australian Art – Any Medium – All Women

The Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize is an annual acquisitive prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established women artists in Australia. It is the highest value professional artist prize for women in Australia. 

There are three prize categories – the Professional Artist Prize of $35,000, the Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000 and the Indigenous Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000. 

There is also a People’s Choice Award of $2,000 plus an art pack valued at $500.

Artists are asked to enter an artwork that best reflects their art practice - there is no theme.

Artwork judging is overseen by Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize Patron and acclaimed artist, Jennifer Turpin. Join us as we celebrate the finest women talent in Australia.

 

 "As Principal of Ravenswood I am delighted to present the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize. Inspiring and connecting women visual artists, this significant Art Prize will strengthen the profile and legitimacy of careers in art for current and future generations of Australian women." 

— Anne Johnstone, Principal, Ravenswood

 "As Chairman of the Ravenswood Foundation, it is an honour to launch the 2024 Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize. The prize has been established to raise the profile of this country's great women artists and to assist in helping the next generation of artists reach their fullest potential. I am confident the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize has and will play a major role in championing women artists across Australia and provide the platform for future generations of artists to flourish." 

— John McLean, Ravenswood Foundation Chairman