by Shane Sody

All good things must come to an end. But some good things return.

You have only until 30 June to snap up one of the remaining finalist artworks from the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize. On this page we’ve featured the most affordable works that are still available for purchase.

Each of the 11 works pictured in the two panels below is priced at no more than $1,000. Most are under $600.

Arna Smith "Protective Layer"

(watercolour, 42 x 30 cm) $580

Alex Beckinsale "Crossing"

Digital Drawing Printed On Fine Art Paper (50 x 40 cm) $560

Jo Wright "Lightning Bridge / Karntu Waadlakatha"

Acrylic On Pine Board With Resin Layering ($400)

Brett Jones "The Three Graces"

Photography (42 x 30cm) $600

Sharon McEachern "Precious Preservation"

Ceramic (35h x 17w x 17d) Judges Commendation Prize Winner $650

Max Ballard "Lighting Tower"

Acrylic on canvas (46 x 36cm) $450

Rosina Possingham: "Ruby Red Saltbush"

Cyanotype On Canvas (96 x 67 cm) $790

James Elsby "The Secrets of Rymill Park Lake"

Digital photo (72 x 103cm) $590

Peter Baka "Strange Days and Nights"

Acrylic On Yupo (30 x 42 cm) $1,000

James Elsby "Ghosts and Gums"

Digital photography (72 x 103 cm) $595

Tiff Rysdale: "The Golden Wattle hybrid (Acacia Pycnantha)"

Oil on linen (45 x 60cm) $795

Janet Raleigh "Whispering grandmother"

Sculpture (65 x 65 cm) $280

Click on any of the images above to see the artwork on its own page. On each artwork’s page you will find the artist’s statement, artwork dimensions, and an “add to cart” button.

The two artworks in the banner image at the top of this page are:

Left: Laura Stewart “The Strength of Small Things” Spray paint on wood with metal chainmaile (37 x 30 cm) $380
Right: Lloma Mackenzie “Life” Hand-coloured linocut (71 x 65 cm) $990

Alternatively, browse the full list of the 80 finalists that were on display earlier this year at the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize exhibition at the Festival Centre.

01. Evie Adasal Title: This is how I feel

02. Alison Arnold Title: Popeyes Ark Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

03. Sally Arnold Title: Appreciation - Victoria Park Wetlands Adelaide

04. Daryl Austin Title: Shrouded Monument, Tarntanyangga 2022 Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

05. Peter Baka Title: Strange days and nights

06. Barbara Milpati Baker Title: Ngapaṟi Tjukurpa Prize Status: First Nations Artist Prize Winner

08. Mike Barr Title: Autumn dapples - Botanic Gardens

09. Lena Baumgartner Title: Greener Grass

11. Clare Belfrage Title: Tree Lines, Pale Green with Dark Green Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

12. Piper Binsted Title: Home Prize Status: School Student Prize Winner

13. Tom Borgas Title: Hyperobject (Kadaltilla) Prize Status: Digital Category Prize Winner

14. David Braun Title: Storm Approaching Carriageway Park Tuthangga

15. David Braybrooke Title: Prismatic Spring

17. Jessica Constantine Title: chillin' down under

19. Robert Dettman Title: Colours of Place: Adelaide's Forty Parks

20. Brenton Drechsler Title: Looking West Prize Status: Emerging Artist Prize Winner

21. Brenton Drechsler Title: Looking East Prize Status: Emerging Artist Prize Winner

23. James Elsby Title: The Secrets of Rymill Park Lake

24. James Elsby Title: Ghosts and Gums Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

25. Wendy Fairclough Title: Study For a Landscape

26. Louise Flaherty Title: Plant Carers of Park 17 - Tuthangga

27. Hamish Fleming Title: Nightwalk Prize Status: Young Artist (u25) Prize Winner

28. Jacob Foster Title: Family Gathering

29. John Foubister Title: The nobility of rocks and sticks. Life on the ground Prize Status: Overall Prize Winner

30. Steph Fuller Title: Close Orbit Prize Status: Photography Prize Winner

31. Madeline Gordon Title: Shadow-bent Tree

32. Blake Griffiths Title: Rabid Eradication (Persistent Pestilence) Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

33. Sophia Guth Title: Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos of the Parklands

34. Pia Gynell-Jorgensen Title: Three Trees & One Canopy

36. Bernadette Hind Title: A Space For You

37. Luke Humphrys Title: Tree of Memories

41. Mark Kimber Title: Mark Kimber - Eventide 9

42. Kerryn Levy Title: 700 Hectares In Motion

44. Marisha Matthews Title: Morton Bay Fig, Botanic Gardens

45. Daniel McCulloch Title: Impressions of The Riverbank Precinct - Adelaide, SA

46. Sarah McDonald Title: Sentient Beings

47. Sharon McEachern Title: Precious Preservation Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

48. Deb McKay Title: Grasslands Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

49. Jessica Murtagh Title: Sisters Seasons Apart

50. Alice Mussared Title: Tuthangga (Park 17)

52. Sarah Northcott Title: Park 27: Trees, bunting, agapanthus plants, and view of Karrawirra Parri

53. Patrick Pearson Title: Natural Exuberance - Coral tree Bark, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Park 11

54. Sylvia Piddington Title: Parklands River Red Gum (Eucalyptus Camaldulensis)

55. Dorota Pomagalska Title: Park Lands, Possums and Periwinkle Sky

56. Rosina Possingham Title: Ruby Red Saltbush

57. Rosina Possingham Title: Herding Caterpillars - VR - The lifecycle of the Chequered Copper butterfly, in extended reality

58. Ross Potter Title: Dear Life Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

59. Jane Price Title: Parklands Olive Branch

60. Rebekah Nyalkba Quall Title: Tarndanya

61. Janet Raleigh Title: Whispering Grandmother

62. Erin Renfrey Title: We Are So Very Small

64. Tiff Rysdale Title: The Golden Wattle hybrid (Acacia Pycnantha)

65. Rachel Scholich Title: Uncle Mickey O'Brien Welcome to Country

67. Mook Simpson Title: A Hopeful Future

69. Laura Stewart Title: The strength of Small Things

70. Peter Syndicas Title: Native Oppression

71. Gishka Van Ree Title: Winter in the Veale Gardens on walyu yarta root ground

72. Mary Wagstaff Title: Bonython Park, Tulya Wardli

73. Adrianna Wasinska-Fabian Title: Into the woods 1

74. Lea White Title: See me in a new light

75. Georgina Willoughby Title: Woodland Echo (Wirrarninthi) 2023

76. Jo Wright Title: Corner of the Cemetery / Park 23

77. Jo Wright Title: Lightning Bridge / Karntu Waadlakatha

78. Jo Wright Title: Narnungga Urban Forest

79. Claire Yerbury Title: Ghosts and Nests

80. Emma Young Title: West Tce Prickly Pears

If you own a business, your purchase of an art work can be an instant write-off for tax purposes, provided it is displayed in your business premises.

Of course, your purchase also serves to support two worthy causes:

the artist who created it; and
the Adelaide Park Lands Association, as we continue our work to Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore.

Remember sale of these artworks ends on 30 June 2023.

2025: the next iteration

We are planning to bring back the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize in 2025. It’s too early to be definitive, but we expect that the total prize pool in 2025 will be no smaller than the $50,000 that was won by artists this year. We will also introduce a few improvements to the overall running of the event.

We expect that the schedule in 2024-25 will be similar to the schedule in 2022-23. We haven’t yet set any firm dates, but we expect that entries will open in the second half of 2024, and close early in 2025.

We are working behind the scenes to secure another eminent judging panel and hopefully book the same venue again for an exhibition in the first half of 2025.

If you haven’t done so already, please subscribe to the newsletter and/or follow the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize on Facebook or Instagram to be kept informed of developments.

Going, going.....

2025: the next iteration

Read more about the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize