2025 Art Awards
Art Awards Catalogue
The Art Awards Catalogue features additional information on the 2025 Art Awards and listings for all works on display at the exhibition.
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Artist Statements
Over 300 individual artists are exhibiting their work at the 2025 Art Awards Exhibition. We invite you to read more about their work, stories and inspiration in their Artist Statements.
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2025 Art Awards winners
Judges: Gemma Ben-Ary, Susanna Castleden
Selection Panelists: Brent Harrison (Assistant Curator of UWA Art Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery), Guy Louden (Collections Officer and Art Consultant, Artbank), Soula Vouyoucalos-Veyradier (Gallery and Programs Manager, School of Art and Design, North Metropolitan TAFE)
Harry Young, 'Excelsior Street'
Medium: Cast concrete
Judges comments:
The work captures a suburban presence and familiarity, both in terms of its materiality and form. The sculpture lets light in and transcends the materials. Referring to such an iconic architect in Iwan Iwanoff is an important homage that invites curiosity.
Prize: Artwork welcomed into the City of Belmont Civic Art Collection with a $10,000 prize
Liam Dee, 'Plane Ride'
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Judges comments:
An interesting composition that seems to span time-frames, and reflect a strange vintage futurism
Prize: $1,000 cash prize
Leah Mannes, 'Roadkill'
Medium: Oil on repurposed shelf
Judges comments:
A lovely synergy between the painting’s support and its subject matter.
Prize: $500 cash prize
Lucy Lilleyman, 'Fruits of Futility'
Medium: Mixed media
Judges comments:
The work exhibits a strong conceptual rigour, observational skills and commitment to craft.
Prize: $500 cash prize
Zephyr Lane, 'Born 1958, Without a Chance to Live'
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Judges comments:
Some exquisite painting skills, compositionally strong and impressive reflection on a historical event.
Prize: $500 cash prize
Harry Conneally, 'Virtual State'
Medium: Oil on wood board
Judges comments:
A surprising work with a sophisticated use of reflective light. It achieves a lot in a small space.
Prize: $250 Jacksons Drawing Supplies Voucher courtesy of Jacksons Drawing Supplies
Cole Baxter, 'Moorditj Mourish'
Medium: Digital paint, matte painting
Judges' comments:
A joyous representation of culture, strength and resilience.
Prize: $500 Camera Electronic voucher courtesy of Camera Electronic
Ruby Thompson, 'Pelican'
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Judges comments:
A confident use of brush strokes, colour and bold composition.
Prize: $250 Jacksons Drawing Supplies prize pack courtesy of Jacksons Drawing Supplies
Jazmin Mckechnie, 'Carved from the Negative'
Medium: Linoleum print on paper
Artist Jazmin Mckechnie will receive mentorship from professional Western Australian Artist Joanna Lamb.
The Popular Choice Award will be presented following the conclusion of the Art Awards Exhibition.
Exhibition attendees are encouraged to vote for their favourite artwork during their visit.
Thank you to our 2025 Art Awards sponsors
The Event Mill,
PerthNow and
Rotary Club of Belmont
Art Awards Exhibition
Held in The Glasshouse between Friday 12 September to Saturday 27 September, the two-week exhibition provided an opportunity for the community to explore the artworks, engage with the community, and purchase a work of art of their own.
The Art Awards attracted interest of a broad cross section of the community including WA Artists, local residents, youth and arts patrons.
Public programs
The Art Awards were officially opened at the
2025 City of Belmont Art Awards Opening Night event held on Friday 12 September 2025. Community members, participating artists and special guests came together to celebrate the winners and take a first look at the impressive works.
Workshops
Artist Andy Quilty delivered two portrait drawing workshops during the exhibition period.
Youth Portrait Drawing Session
Sunday 21 September
Adult Portrait Drawing Session
Sunday 21 September
Accessibility Tours
The City has engaged DADAA, a leading arts and health organization that creates access to cultural activities for people with disability or a mental illness, to deliver two Access Tours of the Art Awards exhibition.
Access Tours are designed to introduce visitors who are blind or vision impaired to new ways of experiencing and enjoying contemporary art through informed discussion and touch.
Professional development workshop series
Delivered with support from
Artsource, the Art Awards workshop series ran throughout May to help artists develop their skills and submit strong applications for the Art Awards.
The series included five sessions exploring the creative process and technical skills, from developing a compelling artist statement to preparing a strong exhibition proposal, and how to promote and document artwork.
Mentorship Award
The Mentorship Award saw an established, WA based professional artist provide mentorship to the Mentorship Award winner.
The Mentorship Award is designed to aid the creative, educational, and professional development of the award winner through feedback, advice and assistance from the Mentor.
The 2025 Mentor was Joanna Lamb.
Joanna Lamb was born in Perth, Western Australia. She graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from Edith Cowan University and a Bachelor of Arts (Design) from Curtin University in 1997. Since her first solo show in 1997, she has maintained a regular exhibiting schedule traversing the practices of painting, printmaking, collage and sculpture.
Joanna’s hard-edged and highly refined compositions depict spaces of (sub)urbanity as an ongoing exploration of place. Stylistically, the works waver between realism and abstraction. Joanna’s work draws on her family connection with printing and a preoccupation with the processes involved in the reproduction of imagery. Her work has a mechanical feel which often negates its handmade processes.
Joanna Lamb’s works are included in prominent collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Parliament House, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Macquarie University, La Trobe University, Edith Cowan University, The University of Western Australia and Murdoch University.