Kimba Art Prize

Kimba Art Prize Kimba Art Prize and Exhibition
Opening Night 15 September - Fine Art and Photography

It’s been a big year for this crew – the volunteers of the Kimba Art Prize committee.While there’s a fast and furious fl...
19/12/2025

It’s been a big year for this crew – the volunteers of the Kimba Art Prize committee.

While there’s a fast and furious flurry of activity in the few weeks surrounding the exhibition, the hours that this crew have put in extend far beyond the time of the event itself…. a full year and then some pulling this fantastic showcase together.

It takes literally hundreds of volunteer hours and we couldn’t be more grateful to everyone who brings the Kimba Art Prize together.

We also shout out to our amazing sponsors and patrons, some who have supported from the start, others who are new to us this year.

Thank you to our patrons, Heather Baldock, Teresa Ramsey and Cecilia Woolford and to our sponsors Kimba Gateway Hotel, District Council of Kimba, Braeside, Kimba Community Development Group, Eyre Business, The Good Copy Company, Willmott Farms, Agsave, Robyn and Grant Harris, and Heather Yates.

For now, we’re hanging up our Art Prize hats for 2025 - we’ll see you in 2027!

Kimba locals love seeing Tara Kenny’s photographs pop up in their socials - often they’re hyper local, taken in the land...
04/12/2025

Kimba locals love seeing Tara Kenny’s photographs pop up in their socials - often they’re hyper local, taken in the landscape near her home, with the striking silouhette of Darke Peak in the background.

This year’s prize-winning pic if from a little further afield though, taken via drone at the stunning Canal Rocks, near Yallingup in WA’s Margaret River region.

The colour and clarity is truly sensational. This photograph is a show stopper. Congratulations Tara 🙌

Congratulations to Neil Swanson who took out the 2025 Local Artist Fine Art Award with this iconic Kimba piece.Originall...
04/12/2025

Congratulations to Neil Swanson who took out the 2025 Local Artist Fine Art Award with this iconic Kimba piece.

Originally painted in 2004 with some touch ups over the years, this piece features local Kimba faces and took 64 hours to complete. It is epic.

Congratulations Neil 🙌

James Nanala is the overall winner of the 2025 Kimba Art Prize.James is an emerging artist whose passion for painting wa...
10/11/2025

James Nanala is the overall winner of the 2025 Kimba Art Prize.

James is an emerging artist whose passion for painting was sparked after attending a Ngurra Kutjuwarra (On Country, Together) camp to his mother and father’s homeland, far south of Balgo.

He is the youngest son of renowned Warlayirti Artists Ningie Nanala and Tjumpo Tjapanangka (dec), both of whom walked from the Great Sandy Desert to Balgo Mission in the mid-20th century.

Raised on the mission, and living in Balgo far from his Country, James has had limited opportunities to visit his ancestral lands. The journey to Lirrwati and Wilkinkarra, retracing his parents’ footsteps, profoundly inspired him to begin painting.

James now lives in Balgo with his partner, where they are raising their grandchildren together.

Congratulations .jericho, winner of the 2025 People’s Choice Award.Lea’s piece ‘Opt Out’ was absolutely stunning in its ...
05/11/2025

Congratulations .jericho, winner of the 2025 People’s Choice Award.

Lea’s piece ‘Opt Out’ was absolutely stunning in its detail and captured the people’s imagination.

A Cummins-based artist, Lea started painting in 2007 with a small group of local ladies.

At around the same time she began travelling around outback Australia and was inspired by the beauty in our own backyard.

Lea works from photos, not just one but numerous shots, usually her own.

“As I watch my subject it creates a wonder and my paintings tell a story. Each painting holds meaning to me and I find painting very therapeutic, very calm”.

Congratulations Lea!

Elisabeth Howlett, winner of our 2025 Fine Art Prize, has been making art for over 20 years and has worked as a professi...
23/10/2025

Elisabeth Howlett, winner of our 2025 Fine Art Prize, has been making art for over 20 years and has worked as a professional artist for 12 years.

She is an oil painter, making expressive portraits of flowering Australian flora. Elisabeth is enamoured by the unapologetic forms of native flora, their ancient shapes and crazy leaves that splay out in all directions.

Elisabeth has family connections with Kimba.

Elisabeth’s mother, Dorothy Pierce (née Toole) grew up in Kimba on the farm of her parents Bernie and Sylvia Toole. Elisabeth fondly remembers going to her godmother Valerie Seal’s (and Uncle Marty’s) visiting her four cousins Michael, Lawrence, Thomas and Bernard Seal when she was young, and riding on a horse.

Elisabeth describes her subjects with vivid, deliberate brushstrokes laden with impasto oil. She applies generous quantities of oil paint to describe her chosen subject, emphasising the impression made by each brushstroke. Elisabeth’s paintings are highly textured, owing to the application of thick oil paint.

Prior to being an artist, Elisabeth worked as a lawyer. (Incidentally, she was admitted to the bar by her mother’s brother - her late uncle, John Hartley Toole who was born and grew up in Kimba). Elisabeth spent the majority of her 15 year legal career on matters impacting the natural environment. It was here gaining a deep appreciation and love for Australia’s flowering native flora.

Friday is your very last day to see the Kimba Art Prize exhibition in all its glory on the walls of the Kimba Institute ...
23/10/2025

Friday is your very last day to see the Kimba Art Prize exhibition in all its glory on the walls of the Kimba Institute and Town Hall.

More than 170 pieces from artists from right across the country are on display, but at 5:00pm on Friday the doors will close and our team of volunteers will begin the task of undoing it all!

If you haven’t been along yet, pop on in and cast your vote for the People’s Choice award (the competition is pretty fierce!).

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