The Pymble Values Art Prize – 2025 WINNER AND FINALISTS
Congratulations to our inaugural
Pymble Values Art Prize Winner
Lynn Savery
Viva
$30,000 was awarded to the winning submission and the College acquired the artwork for its collection.
Highly Commended
Jessie Bourke
To weave is to be woven
Lori Pensini
The Conversation – Rest Awhile
Congratulations to our Finalists
| Kristine Ballard | A seat at the table |
| Kate Banazi | Sharp Edges |
| Julz Beresford | A deep sigh at natures beauty |
| Sharon Billinge | Iggy |
| Wendy Bills | The Splendid Dreamers |
| Yvonne Boag | Knowing Yourself |
| Melissa Boughey | Forest Tapestry – Interconnected |
| Jessie Bourke – HIGHLY COMMENDED | To weave is to be woven |
| Clare Brodie | form . placement . time |
| Tammie Castles | Our Violet |
| Lucinda Chambers | Old Apple Gum |
| Christine Choi | Listening to Earth |
| Susan Cole | The Wattle and the Ant |
| Eliza Cottonwood | Erin’s Window |
| Emma Dash | Doorways and a Quilt |
| Kate Dorrough | The Ancient River |
| Yvonne East | Table dance |
| Katherine Edney | She is the land she walks upon (a portrait of Frances Belle Parker) |
| Julia Elsey | Phenology wheel |
| Celia Fernandez | In Search of My Space (diptych) |
| Louise Fowler-Smith | Extinction Solastalgia |
| Isabel Gomez | Strength |
| Sharron Goodwin-Ryan | Kangaroo Dog |
| Graziela Guardino | Deconstructed Painting Yellow |
| Jane Guthleben | It takes a Village |
| Tracey Jones | It Starts with You |
| Thea Katauskas | Red Lagoon – Dry Wetland ( Bool Lagoon, S.A.), 2025 |
| Laura E. Kennedy | The adaptive knitter + inclusivity champion (After Grace Cossington Smith) |
| Lana-Leigh Lombard | A Process of Becoming |
| Claire Martin | The Grandmother Hypothesis |
| Kiata Mason | Mother and Child with Spaniels |
| Kerry McInnis | My Winter Garden |
| Sally Mowbray | Silk Thread |
| Susan O’Doherty | Moving House |
| Lucy O’Doherty | Pink curtains, stone balustrade and moontrail |
| Lori Pensini – HIGHLY COMMENDED | The Conversation – Rest Awhile |
| Antonia Perricone Mrljak | I Felt You Through the Earth |
| Sandra Routh | Water Doesn’t Know Your Weight |
| Sally Ryan | Paysanne |
| Lynn Savery – WINNER | Viva |
| Therese Shanley | Heavy Blankets |
| Olivia Slater | Women of the World |
| Mary Stack | Untitled (folded hospital blankets) |
| Kate Sylvester | The beauty within the materials we take for granted |
| Nat Ward | Beautiful Scrubland |
| Alexandra Weare | ‘All that Glitters’ |
| Zoe Young | Kumi, Kintsugi + Joan Ross Post-it Notes. |
| Lyra Zhu | The echo of time |