2025 Art Prize winners

Mark Maurangi Carrol has won the 2025 Mosman Art Prize for his work Blue boat (crowd on the island of Mangaia). 

The winning artist said the painting reimagines a 1900 photograph taken by Frederick W. Sears on the island of Mangaia, where a crowd observes the government vessel Tutanaekai.  

“In this work, I extract the setting’s conceptual residue but remove the crowd entirely, inserting instead a solitary, contemporary figure (my brother),” Carrol said. 

As a national acquisitive prize of $70,000, funded by Mosman Council, the Mosman Art Prize celebrates painting’s unique ability to tell stories, capture moments of change, and reflect the complexities of contemporary life. 

Also awarded: 

• Margaret Olley Commendation Award ($10,000) - Tim Price for Life’s on Tim
• Allan Gamble Award ($5,000) - Celia Gullett for Variations series V
• Guy Warren Emerging Artist Award ($3,000) - Emily Galicek for Sampler (design for a ceiling 
• Viewers’ Choice Award ($1,000) - awarded in the final week of the exhibition. 
• Inaugural Installers’ Choice Award - Jumaadi for Dalam Gerimis [In the mist 

The judge of this year’s Mosman Art Prize is Justin Paton, Head Curator of International Art at AGNSW and acclaimed art writer. 

The exhibition runs at Mosman Art Gallery until Sunday 2 November 2025.