Annual Art Awards

The Art Awards started in 2008 following a partnership with the Queanbeyan Art Society dating back to 1975.

Council sponsored a major acquisitive prize at the society’s annual exhibition and the prize-winning artworks form the bulk of council’s art collection. The collection also contains additional works acquired at these exhibitions and others that have been gifted, and totals approximately 130 works.

Since 2008 the Art Awards have been both a non-acquisitive and acquisitive exhibition sponsored and managed by QPRC and held in The Q-Exhibition Space, in Queanbeyan. 

2024 Winners

Proudly supported by Bendigo Bank

Major Acquisitive Award Winner Jo Parsons with her work The Language of Women

• Major Acquisitive Award $5,000 - Jo Parsons for The Language of Women
• 3D Art Award $3,000 - Robert Schwartz for Spectral Echoes
• First Nations Award $3,000 - Gail Neuss for The Killing Fields
• Emerging Artist Award $2,000 - Bridget MacLeod for Affordable Housing
• Bendigo Pick Award $1,000 - Melanie Lenaghan for Cancer

The Highly Commended artists were:

• 3D $500 - Len Hegh for Reef Form
• First Nations $500 - Lea Palij for Complicated Childhood
• Emerging Artist $500 - Josephine Lenaghan for Good to be Different
• Bendigo $500 - Claire Shepherd for Street Walking on Monaro