Sunshine Coast Hinterland-based Marvene Ash won the $5,000 acquisitive 2026 Local Contemporary Art Prize for Studio furniture (hare hiding). Inspired by a print of Albrecht Dürer’s Young Hare, 1502 that, across three generations, traversed walls, homes, and even seas. An expanded still life, in the work, Dürer’s hare settles within Ash’s studio furniture – a reminder of art’s ability to collapse place and time.
Marvene Ash, Studio furniture (hare hiding), 2025, oil on Belgian linen, 108 × 92cm / Winner of the 2026 Local Contemporary Art Prize / Photograph: Christine Hall, Myphotomotion / Courtesy the artist and Caloundra Regional Gallery, Queensland
Ketakii Jewson-Brown won the 2D Excellence Award and Samantha Mays the 3D Excellence Award. In its twelfth year, the 2026 prize had forty finalists.
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