White-faced Heron at Twilight

MAJOR ACQUISITIVE PRIZE WINNER

Kate Gorringe-Smith

White-faced Heron at Twilight

The White-faced Heron is the queen of the Birrarung. To see one fly over, stalk her prey, or stand still as the trees around her, by the waters of the Birrarung is always a magical experience.

Here a linocut of the White-faced Heron in flight is translucent against the eco-printed background. The colours and shapes of the eco-print are created from vegetation collected from the bird’s habitat that are embedded into the image. The riverside has co-created this print. The bird flies through, she does not stand out but is interwoven against her background habitat.
All the elements form the one whole.

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Christine Innis, Temperence 2025

SALON DES REFUSÉS

While not every artwork was selected as a finalist, many captured the imagination of the judges and can be seen through WAMA’s online catalogue.

The Salon des Refusés is a collection of WAMA Art Prize entries that responded to the brief of a Work on Paper that are inspired by our environment. Each work is available to purchase, providing a unique opportunity to support artists and WAMA.

Fragments Anew

Tania Virgona

Nothing is so transient as a Tree I – IV

Lesley Duxbury

Safe haven

Julie Milton

Aftermath

Leanne Onley

Kissing the Earth 2

Maggie Stein

Dingo

Justine Mary Philip

1. ‘Reflections on Inversions Bearing Witness in a Time of Climate Grief : Blue Mourning’, 2024, 51.0 x 90 cm, Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, digital image. 2. ‘Reflections on Inversions: Bearing Witness in a Time of Climate Grief : you know optimism will get you nowhere, sunshine’, 2024, 61 x 91 cm, Hanhnemuhle Photo Rag, digital image and 2.

Karen Zipkas

Light Enters a Damaged World

Bronwyn Rodden

Disquieting Spring

Louise Foletta

This House Has Been Lived In – Clean and Tidy and Loved

Natalia Jankovski

Drawing Flowers like an Owl

Jeffery Allan Gardner

When the Chunck Meets the Sky

Hua Li

Shooting the Breeze

Justine Mary Philip

1. ‘Reflections on Inversions Bearing Witness in a Time of Climate Grief : Blue Mourning’, 2024, 51.0 x 90 cm, Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, digital image. 2. ‘Reflections on Inversions: Bearing Witness in a Time of Climate Grief : you know optimism will get you nowhere, sunshine’, 2024, 61 x 91 cm, Hanhnemuhle Photo Rag, digital image and 2. II

Karen Zipkas

Algal Bloom

Paula Irene Payne

Accumulated Landscapes

Bonnie Porter Greene

Pandanus Party

Anna Spencer

The Undesirable

Kelly Manning

Tides of Trash

Pamela Black

Shape Shifter No.2

Sharon Muir

Angophora on the Edge

Peter Warner

The Shape Within

Diana Orinda Burns

Gertrude in the Garden at Clontarf

Michael Wolfe

Barnacles at Barn Hill

Anna Spencer

Traces

Shirley Ploog

Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby

Stephanie Cartledge

Shape Shifter No.2 II

Sharon Muir

The Bruny Tree

Natasha Himmelreich

Tracing the Roads North

Rosie Lloyd-Giblett

Bunya Requiem

Susan Zela Bissett

Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre) – the water comes down

Kim Williams

Fiddler Ray

Emma Kelly

Let Fly The Magpie Geese

Lisa Kennedy

Tree Matters Ed 1/3 Photopolymer etching on Fabriano with pigment print on Kozo, 2024

Elizabeth Haigh

The entanglement of storm, fire, flood, chaos, grief and hope

Emma Jennings

Moving On 04-02

Anita Iacovella

Magpie

Cleo Wilkinson

Overfold

Melissa Jean Harvey

Deepening interconnectedness-lessons under Eucalyptus Obliqua

Sarah Moon

Barka

Winifred Moser

Where the Light Falls

Heather Matthew

Moonlit Walk

Penny Mason

Conglomerate I,II,III,IV,V

Ro Murray

Mindscape

Tania Babic

Rough Surf

Robyn Kinsela

The Watcher

Leonie Robison

Barkskins

Jude Hungerford

memorial 1-4

Belinda Allen

Moment #50

Rebeccah Power

Cracked Autumn.

Amena Bandukwala

Chasing Tails

Georgina Sambell

Red Kangaroo

Linda Bester

Trepidation and Uncertainty (diptych)

Robyn Kinsela

The Journal of Lost Opportunities

Leonie Robison

Dear Tree

Luisa Stocco

Acacia pycnantha – Honeyeaters once sang outside my window

Marion Manifold

Moment #48

Rebeccah Power

Paper Pigeon

Karen Preston

A shared Breath

Georgina Sambell

rw 1 & 2

Ren Walters

EVERYWAS and EVERYWHERE

Jo Lane

Conservation Conversations

Gail Stiffe

WA Christmas Tree with Spinebill

Merry Robertson

Seasonal shift – cool change

Wendy Teakel

Wilding – Spinifex Hill

Lori Pensini

Float

Karen Preston

The Invaluable Resource

Peter Burgess

Ghost trees

Adrianna Wasinska- Fabian

Temperence

Christine Innis

Golden Gingko

Gail Stiffe

A Cockatoo Tale

Merry Robertson

The Tide Had Turned

Bill Sampson

When I Am Among The Trees Decay Blooms

Julie Stoneman

Hills Hoist

Aldona Kmieć

Monument of Buffalo

Emma Pattenden

Mirror Horses

Adrianna Wasinska- Fabian

Love Urchin

Christine Innis

Sun Stories After Image After Photography Seaweed and Salt

Chris Byrnes

Ripples (diptych)

Merete Megarrity

Mother knows best

Liz Walker

When I Am Among The Trees Relics Dance_Diptych

Julie Stoneman

Spiral of Nature

Julianne Ross Allcorn

(Measuring Trees) Veneer: eccentricity in forest ecologies, P80_9194

Alex Byrne

Southern Eagle Ray and the juvenile Leather Jackets

Catherine OLeary

Dragonfly Summer

Julie Mia Holmes

Sun Stories After Image After Photography Seaweed and Salt 11

Chris Byrnes

Cushion Leschenaultia (Leschenaultia pulvinarus )

Nada Murphy

A Fragile Place

Anne Langdon

Earth, Fire, Water, Air and Wisdom

Roslyn Kean

Summer Mantra

Shona Wilson

Artefacts of an Uncertain Present

Fiona Lee

Falling Nest

Stephanie Tribe

Entwined

Rosalind Atkins

Almond Blossoms in Spring

John Falcone

Middens

Lisa Michl

A bird in the hand

Bronni Krieger

Subterranean

Avril Makula

Summer Yantra

Shona Wilson

Expanded Landscape (Ellenborough)

Fiona Lee

Moonbirds of Sentinel Island

Elizabeth van Herwaarden

Bundeena rock pools

Elsa Santos Carrillo

UNSPOKEN

Theo Strasser

Beautiful Scrubland Nail Can Hill

Nat Ward

The Nature of Wilderness

Maree Purnell

How are you feeling today?

Emma Stuart

Selva Oscura

Yvonne Rees-Pagh

Gumnuts (Eucalyptus Rhodantha)

Lizzie Horne

Collective Conscience

Lana de Jager

hyphal exchange

Charli Rose Gerry

Beautiful Scrubland Nail Can Hill #2

Nat Ward

Grass Tree Composition #8

Yoshiko Gunning

persist resist

Greg Donovan

Breathing Room

Natalie Martin

Eagle man (what we do not see)

Lizzie Horne

Let’s Go Swimming

Chris Lawry

Limbo

Tiffany Titshall

The wind murmurs an ancient song

Carol Gill

Grass Tree Composition #9

Yoshiko Gunning

Shoulder the Burden

Angela Walker

The Irresistible Pastime of Watching Mornings. Garnpung, Willandra Lakes.

Christophe Stibio

Flag of Surrender

Jade Kahle

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