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2025 QRAA – Winners Announced

The Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA), established in 2011, celebrate the creativity of artists living across regional Queensland. As Australia’s largest regional art awards program, the QRAA showcases outstanding new work while offering valuable opportunities, including cash prizes, professional development, solo exhibitions, and artist residencies.

The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award is a category within the QRAA, named in honour of founder Mervyn Moriarty OAM. The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Touring Exhibition was inaugurated in 2021 as a separate touring exhibition of selected entries.

Touring Schedule:

  • QRAA & Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award Touring Exhibitions – Court House Gallery, Cairns – 3 February-2 May
  • Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award Touring Exhibition – Jubilee Community Centre, Mackay – 1-30 June
  • QRAA Touring Exhibition – St George Cultural Centre, St George – 12 June-12 July
  • Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award Touring Exhibition – Qantas Founders Museum, Longreach – 15 July-23 August
  • QRAA Touring Exhibition – The Drill Hall Studio, Townsville – 12 September-11 October
  • Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award Touring Exhibition – Waltzing Matilda Centre, Winton – 19 September-20 November
  • QRAA Touring Exhibition – 1 William Street, Brisbane – 2-20 November

The theme for the 2025 QRAA is momentum. Continuous forward movement requires great balance. In keeping up with a fast-paced society, art provides a space of reflection and innovation. Critique and reflection through art and culture is what maintains the forward movement of our society. Each well resolved artwork is propelled forward by iteration on the last and builds on history and legacy in the arts.

The QRAA is open to artists from across Queensland living outside the Brisbane City Council boundary. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to share in Australia’s largest regional art awards prize pool. Entries for 2026 open on Monday August 10.

View the 2025 winners, highly commended and finalists below:

Art For Life Award Winner
Alison McDonald – For Annie Slade
Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award – Winner
Jonathon Westacott – Banyena
Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award – Highly Commended
Linda Kypriadakis – Waituhi (glowing waters)
First Nations Award – Winner
Charmaine Davis – Clarence river – Stories of home III
First Nations Award – Highly Commended
Marisa Ballinger – Carry Our Light
Remote Artist Award – Winner
moo (Sam Matthews) – Remembering to Breathe
Remote Artist Award – Highly Commended
Cindy Grimes – Over the grid
Emerging Artist Award – Winner
Baylee Griffin – Outgrowing
Emerging Artist Award – Highly Commended
Jaelene Durrand – What Remains
Young Artist Award – Winner
Kathryn Neilsen – Cabbage Tree Creek
Young Artist Award – Highly Commended
Sophie Clayton – Innocent Invader
Annie Tan Memorial Watercolour Award – Winner
Rosie Lloyd-Giblett – Earth songs that touch the sky
Annie Tan Memorial Watercolour Award – Highly Commended
Charlene Attard – Through The Funnel
Environmental Art Award – Winner
Christina Lowry – Ex Libris
Environmental Art Award – Highly Commended
Doug Mcneill – Backyard Bliss
Textile Art Award – Winner
Sharon McKenzie – Gathered Momentum
Textile Art Award – Highly Commended
Hannah Parker – Abstract Landscape II
People’s Choice – Young Artist Winner
Duryab Khan – The Bone Bloom
People’s Choice – Adult Winner
Georgia Furniss – Wild Lyf

Finalists:

Christopher Bentley – End of Support – Emerging Artist Award
Atelier Amen – Ponder – Emerging Artist Award

Steven Lippis – Made of Stars, Lost in Light- Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award
Gabrielle Jones – Mandala for the Momentous Age – Environmental Art Award
Jasna Spiranovic – Blue Momentum – Environmental Art Award
Bernard Singleton & Simone Arnol – Breathe – First Nations Award
Joshua Bonson – SKIN – Momentum of Life – First Nations Award
Jim Filmer – Bush Tucker – Food for Thought – Remote Artist Award
Luke Aleksandrow – Letting Go (2025) – Remote Artist Award
Danish Quapoor – tumour target II (grandstanding) – Textile Art Award
Lynnette Griffiths & Marion Gaemers – Becoming – Textile Art Award
Claire Howden – As Sure As The Sun Rises – Watercolour Award
Fiona Harding – Perpetual Cascade – Watercolour Award
Lani Burville – Balancing Act – Young Artist Award
Bella Lampe – Arte’s Hashi – Young Artist Award

Banner Image: Resource Removal. Rose Rigley and Pamela Kusabs. Paper, Mixed Media, Copper Wire. 2019.