Northern Beaches Council is thrilled to announce the winners of 2025 Environmental Art & Design Prize (EADP).
Now in its fifth year, EADP continues to build on its reputation as an important platform for conversations around the environmental, attracting entries from across the nation.
The Environmental Art & Design Prize continues to showcase the influence the environment has on artists and designers. In turn, the artists and designers are drawing attention to environment issues that start locally, like bush regeneration and coastal erosion, but speak to the global ecological concerns.
Northern Beaches Mayor Sue Heins said the quality and inspirational works submitted this year was impressive.
“The innovative and thought-provoking works explore the theme of the environment, with an aim to inspire action toward a sustainable future. An admirable aim.
“We congratulate the winners and commend the quality of the work from all the finalists," said Mayor Sue Heins.
The judges for this year’s Prize include two renowned experts in their field, Creative Director of Sydney Design Week Keinton Butler, and contemporary artist, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran.
Winners
Art: The Arthitects – Gary Carsley and Renjie Teoh artwork: Wambuul (Proclamation Park Bathurst)
Design: Joanne Odisho work: Lume
Joint Young Artist/Designer 7 – 12 years: Anahid Mezoghlian artwork: The busy penguin and Angie Xu artwork: Nature’s room
Young Artist/Designer 13 - 18 years: Meera Nirmalendran artwork: Nature’s Bounty. Highly commended: Banjo Evans artwork: Discarded World, Fading Creatures.01
View the winners’ and finalists’ works at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Curl Curl Creative Space and Mona Vale Creative Space Gallery from 1 August to 14 September.
Don’t forget you can vote for your favourite in the People’s Choice Award until 10 September, with winners announced on 12 September 2025.
This Year’s prize money, is an impressive $20,000 for each of the Art and Design categories, making the design category one of Australia’s richest design awards. The Young Artists and Designers winners will receive a total of $3,000, and the three People’s Choice winners will receive $1,000 per venue.
The Environmental Art & Design Prize is presented by Northern Beaches Council, and supported by the Foundation Sponsor, Colormaker Industries, Event Sponsor Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises, and Event Supplier Seadrift Distillery.
Prize money is 80 per cent funded through application fees and sponsorship.
View this year’s winners and finalists on our website
Note for editors
Art winner biography
The ArtHitects (Gary Carsley and Renjie Teoh)
Established in 2019 as a forum for an ongoing dialogue between the natural and built environments, the ArtHitects (Gary Carsley and Renjie Teoh) position their collusion at the confluence of their distinct practices as artist and architect, disparate cultures and different generational outlooks. They explore patience and the repeated gesture as the basis for gallery-based ritual and use only an office copier, recycled paper, vegetable dyes and organic, water-based glues to realise vast, immersive spatial environments. Their recent works include projects for Lismore Regional Gallery, the National Art School (Sydney), Penrith Regional Gallery, Wollongong Art Gallery and the Bondi Pavilion.
Design winner biography
Joanne Odisho
Joanne Odisho is a designer committed to sustainable practices, emphasising mindful material selection to minimise waste. Her work aims to foster awareness of where products come from and encourage more environmentally conscious choices in the home.
With a strong foundation in interior design, Odisho seamlessly blends spatial planning and human interaction into her creative process. She transforms abstract concepts into visually compelling, functional objects, drawing inspiration from architecture and the natural world.