Nominees 2025

Orange Regional Museum, Orange 412: A History of Our Local Fire Brigade, Orange 412 Interactives. Photo: Kristen Cunningham

Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, Mungari: Fishing, Resistance, Return. The Gamay Dancers led visitors into the Museum on the opening night of Mungari.

Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, Within Heaven and Earth. Linda Sok, Ritual for Ritual performance. Photograph by Steven Ballas

Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, Villawood: Between Hope and Hopelessness. Photo: Document Photography.
EXHIBITION PROJECTS
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4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art | Man&Wah: Propagate|Germinate|Bloom |
Bankstown Arts Centre | 3rd Bankstown Biennale: Same Same/Different |
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery | Dhuluny: the war that never ended |
Bondi Pavilion Art Gallery | Karla Dickens: Rise and Fall |
Bondi Pavilion Art Gallery | Souter’s Bondi |
Fairfield City Museum & Gallery | Within Heaven and Earth |
Firstdraft | Guruwa gunya (gum tree home) |
Firstdraft | still waters run deep |
Gosford Regional Gallery | 25 Moments: Reimagining Twenty-Five Years of Art |
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery | Sammy Hawker: ‘Conversations with bees’ |
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery | ‘Horizons’ |
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery | Burnt into Memory – Dancing with the Devil |
Lismore Regional Gallery | Buruugaa Garaa Buruu Garaa Budgeramgali (Saltwater People Freshwater People Stories) |
Macquarie University Art Gallery | Love is the Sweetest Thing: Ken Unsworth |
Museum of Art and Culture, yapang | Truth Tell |
Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Singleton Arts + Cultural Centre with Arts Upper Hunter | LiddellWORKS |
Performance Arts Culture Cessnock | Con.fluence: contemporary ceramics from kil.n.it and Hunter region artists |
Tamworth Regional Gallery | Overhead and Underneath – Lessons in Observation |
The Lock-Up | Khaled Sabsabi |
UNSW Galleries | Sarah Contos: Eye Lash Horizon |
Verge Gallery | You’re Welcome? |
EXHIBITION PROJECTS
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Australian Design Centre | Crafted Liberation |
Australian Design Centre | re/JOY: Vipoo Srivilasa |
Blacktown Arts | A Real Experience |
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre | Cunning Revived |
Campbelltown Arts Centre | Marikit Santiago: Proclaim Your Death! |
Grafton Regional Gallery | True North: From the Forest Floor |
Grafton Regional Gallery, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre & Lismore Regional Gallery with Arts Northern Rivers | Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali |
Hazelhurst Arts Centre | Sanctuary: 25 Years of Hazelhurst Arts Centre |
Lewers: Penrith Regional Gallery | Blak Douglas: The Halfway Line |
Lewers: Penrith Regional Gallery | Spot the Difference |
Liverpool Powerhouse | Yellamundie Art Gallery | Giving Voice: Celebrating the History of the Liverpool Women’s Health Centre |
Maitland Regional Art Gallery | Robert Fielding: Tjukurpa Handle it |
New England Regional Art Museum | Inner/ Space: Helen Eager |
Orange Regional Gallery | Conversations with Clarice Beckett |
Wollongong Art Gallery | Greetings from Wollongong |
EXHIBITION PROJECTS
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Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney | Mungari: Fishing, Resistance, Return |
Museums of History NSW | Seeing Sydney, Knowing Country |
State Library of NSW | The Country Cries for Truth: Dr Bronwyn Bancroft |
EXHIBITION PROJECTS
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Adelong Alive Museum | Childhood Pastimes Exhibition, Adelong Alive Museum |
New South Wales Lancers Memorial Museum | Lancers Memorial Wall |
Pilot’s Cottage Museum | Aboriginal history permanent displays |
Port Macquarie Museum | Barayal Bila |
EXHIBITION PROJECTS
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Fairfield City Museum & Gallery | Villawood: Between Hope and Hopelessness |
Old Government House, National Trust NSW | Fashionable Silhouettes Exhibition |
Orange Regional Museum | ASSEMBLE: Orange Festival of Arts 1965-1987 |
Orange Regional Museum | Orange 412: A history of our local Fire Brigade |
Riversdale Homestead, Saumarez Homestead, and Grossmann House, National Trust NSW | Back to Black, Regional Exhibitions |
Tweed Regional Museum | How To Draw A Dinosaur |
UNSW Library | Colour: Inflexions and Interactions |
UNSW Library | Living Water: 75 years of water research at UNSW |
EXHIBITION PROJECTS
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Albury LibraryMuseum | Bungambrawatha: Stories of Albury |
Hurstville Museum & Gallery | Makers & Manufacturers: The industrial history of St George |
Museum of the Riverina | Marea and the Queen’s Purse |
Qtopia Sydney | We’re Here, We’re Queer |
Retford Park, National Trust NSW | Retford Park Art House – Significance Assessment and Rehang |
Royal Flying Doctor Service Outback Heritage Experience Broken Hill | Outback Heritage Experience |
Yarrila Arts and Museum | Swell Chasers: Surf Stories from the Mid North Coast |
ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS
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Australian Country Music Hall of Fame | Kids’ Trail |
Bank Art Museum Moree | Team Trampoline |
Dungog Museum, Scone Museum and Tocal Homestead with Arts Upper Hunter | This Here Then Now |
Firstdraft | Baajo (Come and Dance)! |
Hawkesbury Regional Museum | Ngarra Ngurang: Place of Learning |
Lismore Regional Gallery | Art and Ageing Enrichment Program |
Museum of Printing | Wimbleʼs Wayzgoose, 2025 |
Orange Regional Museum | History Futures |
South East Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA) | TIDELAND: Art + Word project |
Tamworth Regional Gallery | Tamworth’s Outdoor Gallery |
UNSW Library | Open Studio – Colour: Inflections and Interactions |
UNSW Library | Yanma badhu (Dharug) – Water Walk |
ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM
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Australian Design Centre | Australian Design Centre x Regional Arts NSW |
Australian Design Centre | Australian Design Centre x National Indigenous Art Fair |
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery | Dhuluny: the war that never ended |
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre | ‘Disruptor: for all that matters’ suite of programs |
Gosford Regional Gallery | Dandhi-Grounded First Nations Residency, Exhibition and Banner Project |
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery | Jodie Munday ‘Woven Stories’ |
Grafton Regional Gallery | Superpower – Community Capes |
Lewers: Penrith Regional Gallery | Penrith Open Studio |
Lewers: Penrith Regional Gallery | Maggie & the OWLS: Light in Space |
Liverpool Powerhouse | Tagata Moana: People of the Pacific Ocean |
Maitland Regional Art Gallery | Ron Mueck’s Pregnant woman : How an iconic work of art engaged a community and sparked conversations on life loss longing and love |
Maitland Regional Art Gallery | Twitcher – birds, art and citizen science |
Mudgee Arts Precinct | Tell Your Story |
Parramatta Artists Studios | PAS Granville Open Day 2024 |
Parramatta Artists Studios | PAS Access & Inclusion Program 2024–25 |
ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS
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Australian Museum | The Birds of Australia STORYBOX |
Australian National Maritime Museum | Australian National Maritime Museum Website |
Blacktown Arts | Level 5 – Makers Space with Ebony Wightman |
Campbelltown Arts Centre | Creative Careers Expo 2025 |
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | MCA Mega Draw |
Museums of History NSW | “Beautiful waterways… and stinky sewers” a free virtual event for NSW school students |
Newcastle Art Gallery | MEGAN COPE: Ngumpi Kinyingarra Oyster House |
PHIVE | The Western Terrace Series |
Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, City of Sydney | Creative Connections |
Powerhouse | Powerhouse Materials: Textiles |
Sydney Jewish Museum | Incommon |
ACCESSIBLE ARTS AWARD FOR ACCESS AND INCLUSION
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Australian Museum | The Birds of Australia STORYBOX |
Blacktown Arts | Level 5 – Makers Space with Ebony Wightman |
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | MCA Mega Draw |
New South Wales Lancers Memorial Museum | Lancers Memorial Wall |
Parramatta Artists Studios | PAS Access & Inclusion Program 2024–25 |
Powerhouse | Powerhouse Materials: Textiles |
Royal Flying Doctor Service Outback Heritage Experience Broken Hill | Outback Heritage Experience |
Volunteer Achievement Award |
Barbara Foster, Cooma Cottage |
Neil Gould, Kogarah Historical Society |
David Williams, Maitland Regional Art Gallery |
Jeni Bruno, Moree & District Historical Society |
Julie Johnstone, S.H Ervin Gallery |
The ACHAA Award for Excellence by an Aboriginal Curator |
Kat Kitch, Albury Library Museum | MOB |
Len Waters, Australian Country Music Hall of Fame | Trailblazers of First Nations Country Music |
Jonathan Jones, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery | Dhuluny: the war that never ended |
Jonathan Jones, Bundanon | bagan bariwariganyan: echoes of country |
Marika Duczynski, Chau Chak Wing Museum | Mungari: Fishing, Resistance, Return |