21st Annual Paddington Art Prize Exhibition

The Paddington Art Prize is a a $30,000 National Acquisitive Prize, now in its 21st year for a painting inspired by the Australian Landscape.  Principally sponsored by Chris Antico, founded and co-sponsored by Marlene Antico OAM.

Including 10 additional non-acquisitive awards:

• Honorable Mention – A $3000 award sponsored by Paddington Art Prize founder Marlene Antico OAM.

• Highly Commended Award – A $1000 award sponsored by artist/curator Julia Martin

• Cooee Art Leven Award – A 2025 solo exhibition at Cooee Art Leven gallery for two artists from the list of finalists with different, yet complimentary approaches to landscape painting, from director Mirri Leven. The artists will also receive $2,500 each toward the creation of the exhibition.

• Anthea Polson Gallery Award – A 2025/2026 solo exhibition at Anthea Polson Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland for two unrepresented artists who are selected as finalists, from director Anthea Polson.

• James Makin Gallery Award – A 2025/2026 solo exhibition at the James Makin Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria for an artist that is not represented in the state of Victoria and contractually able to exhibit outside their represented galleries (should they have one), selected from the finalists, from director James Makin.

• Becker Minty Gallery Award – A 2025 solo exhibition at Becker Minty Hobart, Tasmania for an artist that is not represented in the state of Tasmania and contractually able to exhibit outside their represented galleries (should they have one), selected from the finalists, by director Jason Minty.

• AL Stretchers Award – $2000 worth of aluminium stretchers sponsored by Alesandro Ljubicic.

• Eramboo Residency/Gallery Award – A 2025 two week live-in residency at Eramboo Artist Environment, North Sydney for a selected finalist, followed by the opportunity to hold a ten day self-managed 2025/2026 exhibition of their residency art works at Eramboo Gallery. Additionally, $500 cash will be given towards exhibition expenses; sponsored by Chris Antico.

• Rathenart Printing Award – A $1000 Rathenart printing/scanning voucher for 2024 finalist sponsored by Rebecca Anne Brady.

• People's Choice Award – A $1000 gift certificate from Theresa Sarjeant of Fine Art Imaging for the finalist with the most votes from visitors to the exhibition of national finalists at Cooee Art Leven Gallery.

Our 2024 judges:

• Jackie Dunn (Senior Curator, AGNSW)

• Ian Grant (Artist & Art educator)

• Sasha Grishin AM, (Art Critic)

Opening night & prize presentation at Cooee Art Leven Gallery, 17 Thurlow St Redfern. 10 October, 6-8pm

Exhibition 10-20 October, 11am to 5pm

Claudia Chan Shaw in conversation with select 2024 Finalists, Cooee Art Leven Saturday, October 12, 2-3pm

2024 Exhibition of National Finalists

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕

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