Sydney-based Monica Rani Rudhar has won the $35,000 acquisitive Professional Artist Prize in the 2026 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize for When both shall meet. Rudhar’s overscaled ceramic representation of traditional Indian jewellery is described by prize judge and patron Jade Oakley as “a monument to cultural identity and the intimacy of love between mother and daughter, husband and wife.”
Monica Rani Rudhar, When both shall meet, 2026, ceramic, 180 × 130cm / Winner of the 2026 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize / Courtesy the artist and Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
Jane Burton Taylor won the $7,500 acquisitive Emerging Artist Prize for Colonial Waistcoat and Stephanie Bush the $7,500 acquisitive Indigenous Emerging Artist Prize for Papa Tjukurrpa-Nyumannu.
Jane Burton Taylor, Colonial Waistcoat, 2026, paper bark, 85 × 85cm / Winner of the Emerging Artist Prize in the 2026 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize / Courtesy the artist and Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
Stephanie Bush, Papa Tjukurrpa-Nyumannu, 2026, acrylic paint on canvas, 91 × 91cm / Winner of the Indigenous Emerging Artist Prize in the 2026 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize / Courtesy the artist and Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
The Exhibition of Finalists runs until 31 May at the Ravenswood School for Girls Centenary Centre, Sydney.
