For her work Looking Up From The River, 2024, Sydney-based artist Emily Ebbs has been awarded the acquisitive $30,000 Paddington Art Prize 2025.
Emily Ebbs, Looking Up From The River, 2024, acrylic, eucalyptus dye and beeswax on drop sheet, 150.5 × 150.5cm
Courtesy the artist and Paddington Art Prize
A subtle, introspective work, dyes stain the drop sheet surface like a ‘residue of memory’, the judges jointly concluding: “Ebbs’ work embodies an overall coherence, a tacit understanding of material knowledge, process, place, memory, authenticity, nuance, sensitivity and timelessness.” Celebrating its twenty-second edition in 2025, Ebbs also won the Art Leven Gallery Award while Sydney-based Mungo Howard won the $3,000 Honourable Mention Award for House Dust, 2025.
Additional winners include: $1,000 Highly Commended (sponsored by Julia Martin) – Dianne Ingram; Anthea Polson Gallery Award – Georgie Kite; Becker Minty Gallery Award – Liam Nunan; Paddington Art Prize Residency Award (sponsored by Chris Antico) – Nick Santoro; $2,000 AL Stretchers Award (sponsored by Alesandro Ljubicic) – Zoe Young; $1,000 Rathenart Printing Award (sponsored by Rebecca Ann Brady) – Dianne Ingram; and $1,000 People’s Choice Award (sponsored by Theresa Sarjeant) – Vidhya Karnamadakala.
