Winner of the 2025 Diana Keir Art Award, Armature by Quentin Chester
‘Island Echoes’ theme
Winner, Island Echoes theme
2D works
3D works
– Highly commended 3D
Photography/digital
Second, Photography/digital
Highly commended, Photography/digital
Special awards
Youth 13 to 16 years
Children 9 to 12 years
Children under 12
People’s choice winner Lori Smith with Pennington Bay
Our judges
Catherine Buddle
Visual artist, maker and designer, Catherine Buddle, brings a fine, focused eye to the role of judge.
Her meticulous attention to detail honed in biological sciences, scientific illustration and graphic design, comes to life in her creation of seemingly spontaneous organic forms. They represent the human psyche as an abstracted, mutable vessel. While exploring interior issues, Catherine strives to create objects of beauty that the viewer can relate to intuitively.
These attributes have won her high praise indeed. She was awarded the 2023 Lorenzo il Magnifico Award: Silver Medal, Textiles and Fibre Art at the XIV Florence Biennale, Italy. An Arts SA grant allowed her to be present at the biennale and at ICONIC, Arte Design Venezia, where she won the People’s Choice Award.
Catherine’s work is currently being shown in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Radical Textiles exhibition. She has also exhibited in notable SA galleries such as Jam Factory, Zu Design and Praxis Art Space, and at Taylor Cullity Lethlean, where she was the Kevin Taylor Legacy recipient for 2023. She has also had solo exhibitions and been part of group exhibitions in Sydney. Catherine’s design work focuses on carefully considered conception with longevity. She designed a new ceremonial mace for The University of Adelaide and won a National Museums Award for branding solutions at ArtLab Australia. Her catalogue works include design for such luminaries as Hossein and Angela Valamanesh, and collection projects at the Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide Botanic Gardens.
Tansy Curtin
Tansy Curtin, Curator of International Art pre-1980, Art Gallery of South Australia, has a strong curation history in several major Adelaide galleries and at Bendigo Art Gallery for more than 13 years. She has a Masters in Art History from the University of Adelaide.
For the current AGSA exhibition, Reimagining the Renaissance – an account of the revolutionary changes in art across Europe during that time – Tansy drew from the gallery’s important collection of painting, sculpture, works on paper and decorative arts, and key loans from public and private collections. In 2023, she curated the comprehensive and well-regarded AGSA exhibition, Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. These are but two of her exhibition curation successes.
In 2019, Tansy co-authored with Penelope Curtin Blooms and Brushstrokes: A floral history of Australian art published by Wakefield Press (reprinted 2022).
Originally from Adelaide, Tansy spent many summer holidays in Penneshaw as a child. She said that her father would sail their boat over and the rest of the family, with dog, would bring the car. She’s looking forward to revisiting.
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