Congratulations to all the artists participating in SOAP 2025!
The winners are:
$10,000 Southern Ocean Art Prize Award - Winner - Meagan Lonsdale “Flutter“
$1,000 Belinda Morgan Criterion Cottage Award - Limestone Coast resident award - Gina Raising “Frozen Air“;
$1,000 James Leake Photography Award - Limestone Coast resident award - Paul Bell “Lowrie's Hill Church under the starts”
Student awards:
$500 - Robe & District Community Bank Senior Student Award (Years 11 - 12) - Dexter Pryde “Deck view“
$300 - Robe & District Community Bank Middle Student Award (Years 7 - 10) - Zoe Moore “Surrealism House Perspective“
$100 Robe & District Community Bank Primary Student Award (Reception - Year 6) - Isabell Hall “The Rusty Gate“
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
DEAN STEVENS ‘SOUTHERN SWELL’ - PHOTOGRAPH.
SELECTED WORKS FOR EXTENDED EXHIBITION AT KARATTA WINE ROOM AND ART GALLERY (10th Nov - 30th Nov):
Alecia Moriarty Groceries: 65,000 Seasons
Alison Rahley Rat race - “ the ultimate sacrifice “
Alison Smiles Save it for later
Brioni Pridham Once was Mountain, Once was Sea
Cecilia Gunnarsson Under the Surface
Christie Lange Beneath the Spines, 2025
Daniel Gibbings-Johns Work & Play
Dean Stevens Southern Swell
Henry Cockington Horseshoe Bay, Port Elliot
Irene Kontakos Hexactinellida
Jaime Prosser The Gap Scrub
John Salvatore Fortified Lost
Jude Rodgers Botswains Rocks
Kate Dawson Long Beach
Liz Fitzgerald The keeper
Louise Feneley May the Fluency of the Ocean be Yours II
Luisa Stocco Heart and earth
Marty Knight Miles the Rooster
Rebecca James Before We Had Phones (We Were Perfect)
Sandra Pearce Serotiny
Suzie Riley Wish Some Days Would Last Forever
Trudy Tandberg The might of many - the mill towns