I’m an artist in my twenties, and I don’t want to leave Tasmania

Painter Zoe Grey wins Australia’s richest landscape prize, further cementing her love of Tasmania’s wild country.
Girl with blonde hair and black t-shirt sitting in artist studio. Zoe Grey.

There are only a handful of art prizes in Australia that tip into six-figure winnings – and only one of them is for the landscape genre.

While it is the $50,000 Wynne Prize that captures the lion’s share of headlines, alongside its sister exhibition the Archibald Prize presented annually by the Art Gallery of NSW, the greater giant in celebrating the genre is a hotel in Hobart.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina