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‘Impressive and unexpected’: $100,000 Hadley’s art prize for Australian landscapes – in pictures

By 365 Breaking News Editorial Team July 31, 2026 at 03:00 1 min read

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It will be exhibited with 26 other finalists at Hadley’s Orient hotel in Hobart from 1 to 23 August 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...

(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...

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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

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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