The Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) is an annual visual arts prize and exhibition for established and emerging artists living in regional and remote Queensland. The program aims to provide a platform for further professional development.
The 2024 QRAA explored the concept of ‘Resolution’. Artists and society as a whole grapple and confront multiple viewpoints and concepts requiring resolution. Through the creative process, artists take this voyage through differing personal and social lenses to reach a meaningful resolution in their work. This reflects and is relevant to the broader journey of society.
2025 Touring Exhibition Locations
Cairns Courthouse Gallery, Cairns – 7 March to 27 April 2025
Coalface Art Gallery, Moranbah – 5 May to 15 June 2025
Mike Carney Creative Industries Centre, Charters Towers – 1 July to 15 August 2025
Mulga Lands Art Gallery, Charleville – 5 September to 6 October 2025
Lapunyah Art Gallery, Chinchilla – 18 October to 25 November 2025
CATALOGUE
2024 Queensland regional art awards judging panel
Simon Wright, Assistant Director – Learning & Public Engagement, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Dr Bianca Beetson, Kabi Kabi, Wiradjuri artist and academic, Brisbane.
WINNERS
‘ART FOR LIFE’ AWARD
Winner – Bernard Singleton and Simone Arnol Emanate – Yimbi (Basket – to leach out toxins, de-stress or filter out noise), 2024, Photograph on cotton rag paper, 105.0 x 0.0 x 70.0 cm.
Highly Commended – Lauren Jones Easy Breath, 2024, oil on canvas, 40.0 x 2.0 x 40.0 cm.
THE MERVYN MORIARTY LANDSCAPE AWARD
Winner – Victoria Reichelt Focus 4, 2024, Oil on Linen, 76.0 x 3.0 x 91.0 cm.
Highly Commended – Alwyn Fourmile Budabadoo, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 50.0 x 3.0 x 90.0 cm.
FIRST NATIONS ARTIST AWARD
Winner – Paul Bong Beginning of Creation, 2024, Acrylic on to arches paper, 120.0 x 1.9 x 80.0 cm.
Highly Commended – Sabrina-Rose Toby Recognition & Control, 2024, Recycled copper from a hot water system for the plates – Copper wire for the chain, 70.0 x 5.0 x 70.0 cm.
REMOTE ARTIST AWARD
Winner – Karen Stephens LOOKING FOR THE PINK OPAL (ABOVE GROUND), 2024, Acrylic on Belgian Linen, 64.0 x 5.0 x 74.0 cm.
Highly Commended – Gloria Gavenor My Mother’s Country, Gunamulla, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 41.0 x 4.0 x 51.0 cm.
EMERGING ARTIST AWARD
Winner – Teddy Horton Stars Align, 2024, Video, 1.0 x 1.0 x 1.0 cm.
Highly Commended – Serinah Williams Girlhood in Bathroom (1 & 2), 2024, Photographic print on rag pearl, 45.0 x 0.1 x 120.0 cm.
ENVIRONMENTAL ART AWARD
Winner – Lauren Edmonds Dark Forebodings, 2024, Video Installation: 7:50 min animated video, TV, button panel, headphones, 112.0 x 15.0 x 91.0 cm.
Highly Commended – Melissa Peacock Stim Drawing, March 2024, 2024, Second-hand Acrylic and Oil sticks on recycled canvas, repurposed floor architraves, 90.0 x 5.0 x 90.0 cm.
THE ANNIE TAN MEMORIAL WATERCOLOUR AWARD
Winner – Lyn Bartolo Abandoned, 2024, Watercolour on Paper, 38.0 x 0.0 x 58.0 cm.
Highly Commended – Colleen Helmore Towards The Light, 2024, Watercolour, 55.0 x 1.0 x 35.0 cm.
THE TEXTILE ART AWARD
Winner – Lisa Ashcroft Don’t Follow Me, I’m Lost Too, 2024, Acrylic, handstitched sequins, kitsch, fabric and fibre on framed canvas, 100.0 x 10.0 x 80.0 cm.
Highly Commended – Michelle Kurth Adrift, 2024, Cotton on Cotton warp, 48.0 x 2.0 x 48.0 cm.
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
Adult Category Winner – Kaylene Higgs Under One Sun, 2024, Under One Sun, 25.0 x 5.0 x 25.0 cm.
Youth Category Winner – Brooke Chaplin Ephemerality, 2024, Oil on Wood, 42.0 x 2.0 x 33.0 cm.
SPONSORS
TOURING SPONSOR
This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. Flying Arts was the recipient of the Touring Queensland Fund to deliver ‘Resolution’, the touring exhibition of artworks from the 2024 Queensland Regional Art Awards.
Banner Image: Karen Stephens LOOKING FOR THE PINK OPAL (ABOVE GROUND), 2024.