The Royal Queensland Art Society would like to congratulate all the winners in the 2025 Harold and Agnes Richardson Drawing prize.
Thank you also to our judges Ross Woodrow and Richard Blundell (FRQAS). Please scroll down to view the winning artworks and judges’ comments.
First Prize
The Hurdle #2
by Melody Spangaro
A wonderful rendering and although the surface application does look a little distracting in raking light it is a powerful transportation of medium into matter.
Second Prize
Play
by Aliki Yiorkas
A tender but complex metaphoric atmosphere created here with the lining up of the race of creatures towards the void.
Third Prize
Bunya Leaves from Queens Park
by Naomi Hatt
Beautiful rendering of the subject with a metonymic link between medium and subject. Forensic observational drawing at its best.
Highly Commended
Ana in Shangri-La
by Dr Kay Kane
An excellent and evocative drawing. Beautifully composed and rendered. The metaphoric potential of the transparency of Ana is a little muted by the indistinct gesture of her hands.
Highly Commended – Young Artist Award
Self Portrait
by Lilah McMahon
A very impressive drawing by a junior artist showing great observation and control.
Fellows Recognition Award
Rachel’s Garden
by Alan Innes
Working in ‘en plein air’ provides an unmediated relation to the ‘real world’ and this is an important practice to preserve and celebrate in the RQAS. The use of colour ‘pushes’ the idea of drawing when it is often not used traditionally in drawing.
Peoples Choice Award
Self Portrait with Idol
by Jared Fountain
