Youth Art Prize 2024 - Prize Announcements + Closing Event

Celebrating diverse artistic talents, our annual Youth Art Prize is a platform for young people to express their views about collective and personal experiences.

Another record-breaking year sees over 200 entries from across the Murraylands to Adelaide and further afield from Leigh Creek in the Flinders Ranges to regional Tasmania!

The Youth Art Prize aims to empower young people to pursue their creative aspirations. Since its humble beginnings co-initiated by The Station well over a decade ago, it now offers a total prize pool valued at over $4,500, including cash and vouchers that will support the recipients’ ongoing engagement with the arts.

AGE CATEGORIES 12-14yrs | 15-17yrs | 18-20yrs | 21-25yrs

PRIZES
Overall Winner $1,000
PLUS in EACH of the 4 age categories + People’s Choice:
Winners $400; 2nd Places $100 art materials voucher + $100 art books voucher; 3rd Places $100 art materials voucher.
Best Compassion Depiction of an Animal $150 from Murraylands Animal Welfare Watch.

2024 PRIZE JUDGE: Henry Jock Walker, leading SA artist
Henry Jock Walker's wide-ranging practice explores surfing, performance and painting through collaboration and socially inclusive events. He has developed a national nomadic practice, utilising his Toyota Hiace van as an ever-changing exhibition/studio/performance site and mobile core of operations. Walker both celebrates and questions the place of contemporary art in Australia through public studio practice, thinking and working with many urban and regional communities. He has been performing and exhibiting nationally for ten years in leading artist run spaces and contemporary art organisations, as well as in Japan and the USA.

Karen Eckermann and Ruby Eckermann, Co-founders and Patrons of Murraylands Animal Welfare Watch will judge the prize for the Best Compassionate Depiction of an Animal.

Gallery Visitors will vote for their favourite artworks for the People’s Choice awards.