The 2024 QRAA Emerging Artists Award Brochure (2025)

A SELECTION OF WORKS FROM THE
2024 QRAA RESOLUTION
EMERGING ARTIST AWARD CATEGORY
15TH FEBRUARY - 22ND MARCH
JUDITH WRIGHT ARTS CENTRE
420 BRUNSWICK ST, BRISBANE

THE 2024 QUEENSLAND REGIONAL ART AWARDS
The Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) are Flying Arts Alliance's
signature annual art awards for established and emerging artists living
in regional, rural and remote Queensland. With the prize pool of over
$140,000, they are Australias' largest art awards for regional artists.
The awards showcase new artworks, providing a platform for artists
to receive both cash prizes and further professional development
opportunities.
ABOUT THE EMERGING ARTISTS EXHIBITION
The Emerging Artist Exhibition celebrates a selection of 20 regional
artists who reside in regional Queensland from enteries to the 2024
QRAA Emerging Artist Award category. The Exhibition features our
current Emerging Artist Award winner: Teddy Horton with their
video artwork Stars Align. Aditionally, Teddy’ s alongside the Highly
Commended and Finalist artworks for the category will be part of
the 2025 QRAA Touring Exhibition.
SPONSOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you to our QRAA Emerging Artist Award sponsors
Consolidated Properties Group for awarding a non-acquisitive
cash prize of $5000 and for being our venue sponsor, alongside
the Judith Wright Arts Centre. We would also like to acknowledge
our additional sponsors for the Emerging Artist Award Category:
OneSpace and Fireworks Gallery.
Cover Image: Teddy Horton, Stars Align, 2024, Video
Photo Courtesy of the artist: Teddy Horton

2025 EMERGING ARTISTS
1. ANNA GUTHRIE, NO FIXED POINT, 2024, Burpengary East, Ceramic
2. CHRISTOPHER BENTLEY, Dead End, 2024, Woodend, Photograph,
Nintendo Gameboy Camera, 3D Software
3. DENISE CROSS, She is Clothed in Strength and Dignity, 2024, Ipswich, Acrylic
on canvas
4. KATRINA O’SHANNESSY, The Calm After the Storm, 2024, Wondai,
Photograph
5. KRISTEN FLYNN, Self-portrait dreamverse collage orange, 2024, Chinchilla,
Monotype and collage on Fabriano paper
6. LOUISE GREGG, TRY, 2024, Federal, Upcycled thread, clothes and copper
7. MEG STOIOS, A More Comfortable Life and a Steady Salary, 2024, Coolangatta,
Watercolour on paper
8. MELANIA JACK, Domestic Body, 2024, Crownthorpe, Video collage
9. NAOMI-JON REDSHAW, A Year of an Artist’s Life, 2024, Clinton/Gladstone,
Mixed Media Artist Book
10. SARA GONZALEZ, Return 3, 2024, Bray Park, Stoneware Clay
11. ANDREA BAUMERT HOWARD , Intersection, 2024, Ipswich, Lino print on
handmade paper
12. DOUG MCNEILL, Valley End Tallebudgera, 2024, Tallebudgera, Oil on linen
13. EDWARD LUCAS, Resolving the Hidden Wonder, 2024, Toowoomba, Oil on
canvas
14. JAELENE DURRAND, Waiting for the Tide, 2024, Atherton, Watercolour
15. JULIA GOULDING, The Survivor, 2024, Cairns, Acrylic on paper
16. LIBBY HUNTER, Deluge, 2024, Clifton Beach, Acrylic on canvas
17. SANDY SCARBOROUGH, Between Land and Sea, 2024, Bundaberg South,
Oil on canvas
18. SARA ZA ENBACK, Tears on Pine Needles and Rain on Freshwater Lakes, 2024,
Macleay Island, Acrylic on canvas
19. WILLIAM LOVEDAY, Growth roots, 2024, Townsville City, Oil on canvas
20. TEDDY HORTON (QRAA WINNER), Stars Align, 2024, Kunda Park, Video

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