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Celebrating the Art of Us
Competition & Exhibition | July 7 – August 16, 2025
Honouring 10 Years of Creativity and Community
In 2015, a bold dream took root: to create a true community art gallery for the Western suburbs of Brisbane — a place where artists of all backgrounds could gather, grow, and showcase their talent.
Today, Art West Community Gallery proudly stands as that vision come to life.
With over 140 members and 300 works of art rotating through exhibitions every six weeks, we have become a vibrant home for creativity, inspiration, and connection.
This year, we proudly invite you to join us as we celebrate our 10th Anniversary with a special event:
"Celebrating the Art of Us: Competition and Exhibition."
2025 Art Prize Winners:
Celebrating the Art of Us – 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our special 10-year anniversary celebration and art prize! It was a spectacular evening of creativity, community, and recognition.
Congratulations to all our award winners, whose incredible work captured the eyes and hearts of our judges and visitors alike.
Major Awards
Best in Show
Margaret Turner – "Early Morning Vista, Maleny, Qld"
Medium: Pastel | 58cm x 46cm | $680
A beautifully rendered piece capturing the atmosphere of an early Maleny morning.
Celebration Award
Suezan Cunningham Nature's Celebration Acrylic 90 x 90 cm $575
Celebrating everything in nature and colour.
Collin Williams Perpetual Trophy
This award honours the founder of Art West, Colin Williams. Chosen by the Williams family, this award celebrates an artwork that reflects the spirit of creativity, originality, and passion that Colin encouraged in others.
Lorraine Hodgson Contemplation Acrylic 50cm x 40cm $450
"Contemplation" explores the universal experience of pausing - of turning inward to face one's thoughts, emotions or questions.Soft abstract layers evoke memory & inner reflection where we process the world around us.
People's Choice Awards
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Joint Winners :
Bernadette McConville – Celebration Shoes
Fiona Coward – Raspberry Creek Crossing
Both works received an equal number of votes, showing just how much they resonated with our visitors.
A very special thank you to our award sponsors Creative Hearts Co. — your support helped make this milestone exhibition possible. We are so grateful for our sponsors, our artists, and our community. Without you, we couldn’t do what we do.
Category Awards
Oils
1st Prize
Perrin Millard Balance of Parts III Oil 90cm x 90cm $1,500
Perrin Millard explores the memories, emotions, and physical responses that our natural world evokes, in particular when the 'beautiful' and the 'terrible' become an incredible unity of opposites.
2nd Prize
Jane Border Dove Lake, Tasmania Oil 50cm x 76cm $500
The serenity, colours and beautiful gum trees around Dove Lake captured my imagination when we were trekking in Tassie a couple of years ago.
Acrylic
1st Prize
Svetlana Trefilova A Step Back from the Shore Acrylic 61cm x 91cm $900
Inspired by the raw coastal ecology of Moreton Island, this work reveals a world where visible and invisible life entwine—organic forms rising from sea, sand, and memory.
2nd Prize
Fiona Coward Raspberry Creek Crossing Acrylic 50cm x 40cm $350
In painting this piece I tried to capture the light and tranquility of this beautiful location.
Watercolour
1st Prize
Svetlana Trefilova Threads of the Old Town Watercolour 73cm x 52cm $450
This work captures an old town’s quiet beauty, where stairways, sunlit walls, and clotheslines become threads connecting people, place, and memory—revealing life woven into texture and time
2nd Prize
Yuko Sherry Queen of the rainy season 43cm x 53cm $290
One of my favourite flowers and this brings me a memory of my hometown.
Drawing
1st Prize
Margaret Turner – "Early Morning Vista, Maleny, Qld"
Medium: Pastel | 58cm x 46cm | $680
A beautifully rendered piece capturing the atmosphere of an early Maleny morning.
2nd Prize
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Gay McKay Colourful me Agapanthus Pencil Drawing 35cm x 51cm $185
This is a coloured pencil drawing. Love flowers their shapes, textures, perfume and endurance.
Mixed Media
1st Prize
Dubravka Zirojevic Primal Expressions Mixed Media 76cm x 51cm $420
This piece represents primal and organic expressions by using a primitive shape in muted earthy tones. I hope the viewer will experience the 'primitive feel' of each square.
2nd Prize
Lyn Fairlie Storm Break Mixed Media 61cm x 76cm $550
This piece captures the dramatic meeting of sea and sky during a coastal storm. It reflects the raw energy of nature and the quiet strength found in moments of turbulence.
3-D
1st Prize
LESLEY BRIGHT Percy the inbread pigeon 3D 30cmx15cm $199
This is Percy the in-bread pigeon sculpted and stitched from vintage fabric and beads to create an imperfect one-of-a-kind pigeon. The myth, the legion, the Percy. Percy is celebration.
2nd Prize
Yvonne Bouwman "Porcelain Sculpture Fungoid"
3D/Sculpture/Ceramics/Wood 10 x 13 $160
Photography
1st Prize
Lyn Fairlie Divine Passage Photography/Digital 45cm x 30cm $250
Captured in a fleeting instant in Dubrovnik, this unedited photograph reveals nature’s timing and wonder -sunlight bursting through stone. It’s a reminder that magic often meets us in everyday moment
2nd Prize
Geri Milne Uluru Dreaming, Kantju Gorge Photography/Digital 59cm x 44cm $250
The ancient textures and lines of Kantju Gorge and the iconic jarrah trees are depicted in this in-camera multiple-exposure image, taken from the ground up at Uluru.