People's Choice winner
$200 Highscan Award for People’s Choice
Mossman Gorge, by Vickie Williams
Clowning around with Mr Turtle, by Mark Williams
An Unexpected Guest, by Lyn Bartolo
Are We Related, by Joanne Bingham
Prince of Wales Island – the Torres Strait, by Carole King
Black Cockatoo, by Maree Henriksen
Hon. Michael Healy MP, sponsor Best Drawing or Print with winner Joanne Bingham (R) and Kelly Jaunzems, Cairns Art Gallery
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS AND RUNNERS-UP
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$1,500 Ron & Marion Ireland Award for Best Oil Painting (Acquisitive)
Winner: Mark Willems – Clowning around with Mr Turtle
Highly Commended: Pete Marshall – Let the Light Shine in
$1,500 North Qld Eye Clinic Award for Best Acrylic Painting
Winner: Jane Dennis - Black Mountain Studio
Highly Commended:
Sheran Barton – Summertime
Molly Duncan – A Lucky Escape Yorkeys Beach
$1,500 Exemplar Coaches & Limousines Award for Best Watercolour Painting (Acquisitive)
Winner: Tony Walker – Quinkan Country
Highly Commended:
Maree Henricksen, Black Cockatoo, Finke NT
Joanne Bingham - My Cheese Board
$500 Halpin Partners Award for Best Mixed Media
Winner: Lorna Ballantyne Epps – Scarlet
Highly Commended: Jacky Elms – The Bluebird Café
Highly Commended: Carole King - Prince of Wales Island – Torres Strait
$500 Omni Builders Award for Best Sculpture
Winner: Lone White - Flower Blossom Form
Highly Commended: Moo (Sam) Matthews - Monsters Bearing Flowers
Highly Commended: David McDonald - Raw Earth
$500 Michael Healy MP Award for Best Drawing or Print:
Winner: Joanne Bingham – Are We Related?
Highly Commended: Lyn Bartolo - An Unexpected Guest
Highly Commended: Pete Marshall - I Said No! (2)
$500 Cairns Art Society Award for Best Digital Art
Winner: Eunice McAllister – Hidden Sea
Highly Commended: Buck Richardson – Moth Mosaic
Highly Commended: Zachary Leonardi - Just Relax
Exhibition Judge Dr Barbara Cheshire
Awards Co-ordinator Sarah Goldfinch
Dr Ramin & Nava Zadeh, North Queensland Eye Clinic, sponsor Best Acrylic Painting Award (won by Jane Dennis, Cooktown)
Cheryl Welham of Exemplar - sponsors of Best Watercolour (won by Tony Walker, Brisbane)
Wendy McGuigan with Mark Willem, winner Best Oil Painting Award, sponsored by Ron & Marion Ireland
(L) Ian Middleton, Highscan, sponsors of People's Choice, with Damien Cox
Lone White, winner Best Sculpture (sponsor Omni Builders)
(L) Darren Halpin, Halpin Partners, sponsor Best Mixed Media Painting. (R) Winner, Lorna Ballantyne Epps
Natalia Mann
SPONSORED BY
This year's very generous sponsors