The 2025 City of Rockingham Art Prize received 350 entries from Western Australian visual artists across the state, spanning an impressive range of artistic styles, competing for the $20,000 prize pool (non-acquisitive).
Ronél Koen, The sum of their parts, 2025, mid-fire clays, mid-fire porcelain, mason stains, red iron oxide, engobes and mid-fire clear glaze. Photograph: Fallon Novak, H&L Creative
This year’s judging panel – comprising Kieron Broadhurst, an interdisciplinary WA artist and academic at Curtin University; Pamela Gaunt, an acclaimed artist with a long-standing practice based in Perth; curator and emerging artist Zali Morgan, a Whadjuk, Ballardong and Wilman Noongar woman based in Perth/Boorloo; and Sandra Murray, Rockingham Art Prize Curator – selected seventy-six finalists, ranging from established to emerging artists, from Kununurra and Warmun to Bunbury and Carbonup River, including fifteen Rockingham locals. Their works included a variety of media, notably painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography and mixed media.
The 2025 City of Rockingham Art Prize finalist exhibition is open for public viewing at the Rockingham Arts Centre, Rockingham WA 6168, from 14 June to 6 July 2025, with the winners announced at the official awards presentation on Saturday, 14 June 2025. All works will be available for purchase.
Brett Leigh Dicks, Radioactive Waste Disposal Cell, Mexican Hat, Utah, 2024, photographic print. Courtesy the artist
Finalists:
Chantelle Ah Chee, Bronwyn Aitken, Gary Aitken, Odd Anderson, Claire Bailey, M Baker, Phil Barron, Cole Baxter, Felicity Bodycoat, Jayda Brown, Christophe Canato, Mikaela Castledine, Dominique Coiffait, Maria Delfina Colombres, Megan Corby, Tom de Munk-Kerkmeer, Jozina de Ruiter, Katherine De Vere, Lorraine Defleur, Brett Leigh Dicks, Troy Drill, Mandana Eizadi, Stuart Elliot, Bethany Francis, Carolina Furque, Miik Green, Richard Gunning, Philomena Hali, Genevieve Hartney, Emma Harvey, Wesley Jackson, Robyn Jean, Josephine Johnson, Gina Kitchen, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Ronél Koen, Nicholas Kotsoglo, Vania Lawson, Joowon Lee, Sue Leeming, Andre Lipscombe, Suzanne Logue, Michael MacRae, Alexandra Marangelis, Jackie Masters, Jess McKiernan, Paris Mitchell, Madison Mueller, Diana Neggo, Lyn Nixon, Holly O’Meehan, Jill Paynter-O’Meehan, Lori Pensini, Annette Peterson, Ross Potter, Clinton Price, Tess Rafferty, Jeannette Rein, Peta Riley, Brad Rimmer, Renee Rose, Vicki Sangster, Valerie Schönjahn, Daniel Smith, Anna Speirs, Nicole Steenhof, Wade Taylor, Nathan Thomas, Mark Thompson, Tyler Thomson, Sarah Thornton-Smith, Joie Villeneuve, Claire Worts, Anastasia Wright, Jurek Wybraniec, and Dane Yates.
