APY Lands artist Robert Fielding has won the 2026 Hadley’s art prize, awarded to the most outstanding portrayal of Australian landscape. The judges said Fielding’s painting, which depicts stacked, wrecked cars, ‘revealed ‘a landscape which is lived and still sacred’. It will be exhibited with 26 other finalists at Hadley’s Orient hotel in Hobart from 1 to 23 August
‘Impressive and unexpected’: $100,000 Hadley’s art prize for Australian landscapes – in pictures
APY Lands artist Robert Fielding has won the 2026 Hadley’s art prize, awarded to the most outstanding portrayal of Australian landscape. The judges said Fielding’s painting, which depicts stacked, wrecked cars,...
OVERALL PRIZE: Landscape (2026) by Robert Fielding
RESIDENCY PRIZE & IAS ART HANDLERS AWARD: Bunuru Nocture, Derbal Yerrigan (High-Summer Night, Swan River) by Kelsey Ashe
PACKING ROOM PRIZE: Log it! (2025) by Alice Mannheim
Trill (2025) by Natasha Bieniek
Emerald Coral (2024) by Ken Done
That Which Persists (2026) by Mia Boe
First light over Cuttagee #2 (2025) by Julian Meagher
Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country) (2025) by Betty Muffler
The Nature of Time (2026) and Place by Melissa Kenihan
Minymaku Inma (2026) by Betty Campbell
Sunlit from Within (2026) by Kim Leutwyler
Where Light Settles (2026) by Todd Simpson
Parnngurr (2024) by Bugai Whyoulter
PIKILYI (2026) by Imants Tillers
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Source: The Guardian
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