Gemma Smith awarded the 2024 Mosman Art Prize

Gemma Smith has been awarded the 2024 Mosman Art Prize with her painting ‘Pollen Prism’.

The Mosman Art Prize is the longest running and most prestigious municipal art prize in Australia. An acquisitive award sponsored by Mosman Council, the winning entries form the basis of the Mosman Art Collection, a valuable and historic collection that surveys Australian painting since 1947.

Further awards presented on the night included the Margaret Olley Commendation Award ($10,000) given to Khaled Sabsabi, the Allan Gamble Award (for the built environment) valued at $5,000 won by Nick Santoro, and the Guy Warren Emerging Artist Award ($3,000) presented to Jacquie Meng.

The 2024 Mosman Art Prize attracted 1,617 entries from across Australia with 88 paintings selected for finalist exhibition. Artists from all states and territories were selected as finalists.

Gemma Smith is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf.
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Gemma Smith is a prominent figure in contemporary painting, with her works extensively collected and featured in major institutional collections across Australia. Her recent achievements include being part of the inaugural collection display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ new Naala Badu building, and notable exhibitions Living Patterns at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane (2023), Know My Name at the National Gallery in Canberra (2020), and Wheriko – Brilliant! at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu in Christchurch (2019).

Smith’s public art projects are equally significant, including Collision and Improvisation at the Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law in Brisbane (2012) and Triple Tangle, the 2018 Foyer Wall Commission at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Her career was comprehensively surveyed in the major exhibition Rhythm Sequence (2019) at UNSW Galleries in Sydney, which subsequently travelled to the QUT Art Museum in Brisbane.