Queensland Regional Art Awards
Medium / category: All mediums
Eligibility: Queensland based artists 15 years or older
Associated institution: Flying Arts’ Alliance
The Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) is Flying Arts’ signature annual art awards for established and emerging artists living in regional and remote Queensland. Flying Arts is a not-for-profit organisation inspiring the appreciation, practice and professional development of visual arts as a lifetime interest or career. The organisation’s awards aims to showcase artwork whilst providing a platform for artists to further professional development and opportunities.
Notable Previous Winners
2022:
- Kellie O’Dempsey, Wish You Were Here 1
Winner: Art For Life’ Award
- Jan Strudwick, Sunday Morning – Ukraine
Winner: The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award
- Jule Polkinghorne, The Swimming Lesson
Winner: The Annie Tan Memorial Watercolour Award
- Rose Rigley, Cataloguing Absence
Winner: Art Educator Award
- Julie Field, Signed Planet Earth
Winner: Environmental Art Award
- Rosella Namok, My Place (Sea Green)
Winner: First Nations Artist Award
- Alexandra Baxter, I Know How You Must Feel, Brad
Winner: Take Flight Art Award
- Karike Ashworth, Who Gives a Crap
Winner: Textile Art Award
- Helen Dennis, Resilience
Winner: Remote Art Award
- Christina Lowry, New Normal
Winner: People’s Choice Award
- Mikayla Parrotta, Moments Before Disaster
Winner: People’s Choice Award
The Different Award Categories
The award categories include the Art For Life’ Award, The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award, The Annie Tan Memorial Watercolour Award, the Art Educator Award, the Environmental Art Award, the First Nations Artist Award, the Take Flight Art Award, the Textile Art Award, the Remote Art Award and the People’s Choice Award.
Information up to date from June 14 2023