Joint Winner - Karen Stone is a paper artist living in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia. Inspired by flowers, floral pattern and the medium of pulp-paintings, her art practice weaves together fabric, memory and meaning to revisit and reflect upon the past.

Artwork by Sally Chicken

Joint Winner - Sally Chicken won the Windmill in 2013 with her application looking for assist in a project with Outback Arts in Coonamble in the central west of NSW. Her art practice explores her my identity as a white female in rural, regional, post-colonial Australia. 

A Clearing at Mt Lofty Road

Bradley Hammond gathers bulrushes from river banks to make the reed pens that are integral to his large scale plant drawings. These new works merge natural history and minimalism.

Frightful Tremendous Pass

After studying travel and living overseas Nicole returned to her hometown of Bathurst and found herself drawn to the surrounding landscape and its rich cultural history as a theme for her art practice.

Paying Respects

Jane Lander is a Hunter based artist with a practice in painting, printmaking and drawing. She describes her interest as universal and personal investigating domestic socio-political injustices and environmental concerns.

Tracey is a Goulburn based visual artist working with a variety of mediums in both 2D and 3D, although the majority of her exhibited work has been sculpture, installations and relief work using fluted cardboard as the medium.

Mic Eales is a sculptor/mixed media artist and an art-based researcher based in Northern NSW. He completed his PhD, Different Voice, Different Perspective: An arts-based and evocative research response to original voice narratives of suicide at Southern Cross University. 

Joint Winner - Andy Townsend is from Wapengo on the far south coast of NSW. His art dovetails 2D and 3D modes of expression. Andy said “One seems to inform the other: assemblages of steel and salvaged objects become the subject of ink/collage drawings. Photo montages are the starting point for low relief sculptures.”

Joint Winner - Craig Cameron currently lives and works near the NSW South Coast village of Candelo. Craig’s recent work questions the boundaries of painting through his use of found refrigerator panels; reworked with an angle grinder, paint and gap filler and has been described as resembling “shadows on a gothic wall”. Craig's past work often involved layer upon layer over the base material, sometimes perspex, canvas, masonite, sheet steel, creating images that are urban and three-dimensional.

Joint Winner - Rachel’s work is mainly ‘in-situ’ and she responds to the immediacy of drawing and painting from life. “What moves me to respond is noticing a relationship of shape, line, form and colour and the interaction of these elements with light” Rachel says “I love the way light can transform what we see”.