2025 Ramsay Art Prize Puts Australia’s Rising Class of Artists in the Limelight
Artists like Stanislava Pinchuk, Liam Fleming, and Tom Polo are up for the award celebrating contemporary talent. Save to My Ocula
The finalists have been announced for this year’s Ramsay Art Prize, an award aimed at supporting Australian artists under the age of 40.
The biennial award, which will grant its winner 100,000 AUD and acquisition of their work by Adelaide‘s Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), aims to ‘celebrate the vitality and talent of artistic practice in Australia right now’, according to gallery director Jason Smith.
The 22 finalists—selected from a record 500 applications—include Adelaide Biennial exhibitors like Sydney painter Tom Polo and Ukraine-born artist Stanislava Pinchuk, whose Homeric sculptures referencing Australia’s detention system were dubbed by critics ‘perhaps one of the most significant in the entire show’.
The list also includes South Korea-born artist EJ Son, a finalist of last year’s Wynne Prize who showcased the massive bear Dancing Teddy (2024) at Art Gallery of New South Wales, and past Ramsay contenders like Liam Fleming (2021) and Alfred Lowe (2023).
The winner will be announced on 30 May, before an exhibition featuring all finalists’ work will open at AGSA from 31 May to 31 August 2025.
The public will also choose the winner of 15,000 AUD in an additional People’s Choice award.
This year’s panel included Australian artist Michael Zavros, inaugural Ramsay People’s Choice Prize winner Julie Fragar, and AGSA Acting Director Emma Fey. —[O]
The 2025 Ramsay Art Prize finalists are Clara Adolphs, Miguel Aquilizan, David Attwood, Jack Ball, Emma Buswell, Christina May Carey, Liam Fleming, Bridie Gillman, Jordan Gogos, Visaya Hoffie, Lisa Khan, Alfred Lowe, Gian Manik, Callum McGrath, Lillian O’Neill, Jason Phu, Stanislava Pinchuk, Tom Polo, EJ Son, Shireen Taweel, James Tylor, Elizabeth Willing.
Main image: Stanislava Pinchuk, The Theatre of War (2024) (still) (detail). Three-channel film. 10 min, 23 sec. Courtesy the artist and Ames Yavuz.
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