Carol Bann, Whence it came, pencil on paper, 2024 Murray Bridge Rotary Art Show, 1st Place, Jean Sims Art Prize
Jointly hosted by the Rotary Clubs of Mobilong & Murray Bridge for over thirty years, this popular annual community-driven exhibition presents a broad diversity of artworks by emerging, seasoned and hobbyist artists from the Murraylands region and beyond.
Mediums range from oil and acrylic paintings, ceramics, glass, felt forms, metal and found objects sculptures, mixed media sculptures and assemblages, photographs and works on paper in pastel, ink, watercolour, graphite and even silver + gold.
The event provides an opportunity for entrants to exhibit and sell their work, as well as be in the running to win one of eleven prizes that are offered by the exhibition’s generous and long-standing sponsors.
Prize Categories: Jean Sims Art Prize - 2D, 3D, Andrew Hay Memorial Photography Prize, Murraylands Animal Welfare Watch Award and People’s Choice.
2025 PRIZE JUDGE: Samantha Faehrmann, Guildhouse Artistic Programs Manager
Originally from a remote community on Gayiri land, Central Qld, Sam relocated to Kaurna land, Adelaide, where she runs a mixed medium practice from her studio ‘Butter and Gravy’. She holds a Masters of Architecture from UniSA, where she began working with the ‘Design Construct Program’. She has a passion for process and industrious practice through connection to communities, design, construction, logistics, fabrication and material. Her expanded portfolio includes contemporary art in pursuit of material language and experimentation, through which she continues to explore the intersections between people, spaces, places, bodies and objects that form the phenomena of our experience and our collective contributions. She is a passionate artist and facilitator who has developed and delivered creative programs across multiple sectors in local, metropolitan, remote, regional and international communities. She is dedicated to co-created outcomes, inclusive practices, capacity building and ever seeking opportunities to encourage and amplify the expansion, sustainability and resolve of creative practices and people.
Karen Eckermann and Ruby Eckermann, Co-founders and Patrons of Murraylands Animal Welfare Watch will judge the prize for the Murraylands Animal Welfare Watch Award.
Gallery Visitors will vote for their favourite artworks for the People’s Choice awards.
Congratulations to the following prize winners
2D Category
First Prize (Jean Sims Art Prize) - $1,000: Susan Brittain, Kookaburra dreaming
Second Prize - $250: Jane Mason, No 2
Third Prize - $100: Carole Bann, Dry river bed
Photography category
First Prize (Andrew Hay Memorial Photography Prize)- $1,000: Kathryn Hannaford, Sand dunes, Marske-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire UK
Second Prize - $250: Carol Coventry, Lay of the land
Third Prize - $100: Jiri Bruderhans, Breakaway – Tour Down Under 2017
3D Prize Category
First Prize - $1,000: Craig Freundt, Raven
Second Prize - $250: Nathan Modra, Hand
Third Prize - $100: Jane Shaw, The mill
Best Compassionate Depiction of an Animal
Winner - $250: Tamika Jennings, An evening dip
