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THEME: I AM HERE

Celebrating Cultural Narratives and Perspectives.

The 2026 theme I AM HERE invites artists to consider ideas of presence, identity and place in their work. It acknowledges the role of cultural identity, lived experience and community in contemporary multicultural Australia and will guide the selection and presentation of works in the 2026 Burwood Art Prize exhibition.

Artists are encouraged to interpret this statement as an invitation to explore how art can facilitate dialogue and connect audiences with the different experiences that inform our sense of community. 

The 2026 Burwood Art Prize exhibition will run from Monday 25 May to Sunday 28 June 2026 at the Burwood Library and Hub, 2 Conder Street, Burwood.

Unapologetically Here (2026). Stoneware and Earthenware ceramics

Queering the straight line (2026). Stoneware ceramics. Hawkesbury Regional Gallery. HOME | a place we call, 2026

Friendship #1 (2023). Acrylic, screen print and aerosol on wood. Hawkesbury Now, 2023

Your space, My space, Our space (2024) at the opening of the Jenny Birt Painting Prize, UNSW AD Space, UNSW 2024

Friendship #4 – 2023 Winner – Contemporary and Mixed Media Winner – Best in Show
MTAS Spring Exhibition

Redhead after Piet Mondrian – 2022 Winner – Contemporary and Mixed Media, Winner – Best in Show MTAS Autumn Exhibition

RED HEADS RULE..! (2020). 2021 Winner – National Capital Art Prize People’s Choice Award

Acknowledgement of Country

“Acknowledging Country is an opportunity to reflect on the continuing and unbroken sovereignty of First Nations. It should not merely be a symbolic act of recognition but rather is an invitation to reflect on colonialism as an ongoing process of violent dispossession that makes and remakes itself in actions large and small.  It is also an invitation to reflect on our own relationship to place: how we ended up where we are today, how we are implicated in histories of dispossession or resistance, what our relationship is to past, present, and future. To do this, as a settler living on stolen land, requires an embrace of knowledge, culture and tradition that remains unknowable” (Brooks, A. 2022).  

I acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which I make art, the Darug and Darkinjung people of the Dharug nation and pay respect to the Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation, past, present and future. I acknowledge the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 

I do not speak for Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander people. Through various artworks, I have aimed to amplify voices and concerns relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

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