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Title: Family Gathering Prize Status: People’s Choice Prize Winner Category: Emerging Artist, First Nations Artist, Under 25 Dimensions (cm): 80h x 80w Medium: Paint Statement: Outside circles represent the men and women gathering kangaroo and honey ants for the family the inside circle is the place they gather and share the food and have a feast, The white outline represents the journeys they took to get the kangaroo and honey ants.

Title: Close Orbit Prize Status: Photography Prize Winner Category: Photography Dimensions (cm): 100h x 100w Medium: Inket Print On Archival Paper Statement: In this photograph, sunlight reaches across craters and outcrops formed long ago on a Eucalypt in Park 13. As the sun gets lower in the sky it picks up the surface textures as if they belonged to a faraway horizon. Yet this view is not reserved for distant travellers, but for those who simply choose to look.  

Title: Shadow-bent Tree Category: Emerging Artist Dimensions (cm): 41h x 41w Medium: Oil On Panel Statement: "My landscape of the Adelaide Park Lands is a tribute to time spent with my late sister-in-law in the rugged beauty of the park. In the South Park Lands we often had long, meandering conversations as we strolled in the sun. There, she taught my young son to sing to magpies, hide in wallaby grass, and climb fallen trees. We delighted in the flora and fauna. And as her illness progressed, she often wouldn’t leave the house at all except in a wheelchair to go there, which never failed

Title: Rabid Eradication (Persistent Pestilence) Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner Category: General Dimensions (cm): 40h x 90w x 4d Medium: Wool Died With Eucalyptus Statement: "Rabid Eradication considers the layered histories of the Adelaide Park Lands. It takes the form of a row of skinned and hung rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), introduced to the area in 1858. Their introduction caused the population decline of native fauna such as the burrowing and brushtail bettong, now considered locally extinct (Bettongia lesueur & Bettongia penicillate). These species once thrived in the Adelaide Park Lands area.Stained the colour of Eucalyptus native to the area on woollen fabric (the product of