Finalists announced in Mullins Conceptual Photographic Prize
30 finalists have been selected in the annual Mullins Conceptual Photographic Prize for 2025.
Run by the Australian Photographic Society (APS), and now in its seventh year, the Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize is an acquisitive prize that seeks to find Australia's best conceptual photographs. It comes with a cash prize for the winner valued at $30,000.
Entries in the Award must be a still work that has been substantially produced by photographic means, and it is open to analogue and digital photography, collage and mixed media.
Alongside the cash prize, the winner's work will also be acquired by the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre's (MRAC) permanent collection of post-war paintings, ceramic and photography.
Adjudicator Antares Wells, Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, selected the 30 finalists.
| George Angelovski | CRITICAL DREAMS . I . (eye), 2024 |
| Lilah Benetti | Trace Elements, 2024 |
| Angus Brown | Torqued Image Object 1, 2024 |
| Isabella Capezio | Decoy , Casuarina, 2024 |
| Carolyn Craig | Re/mediate, 2024 |
| Darron Davies | The Self and the Others, 2025 |
| Jeremy Drape | Untitled (Shade Cloth), 2024 |
| Yvette Hamilton | Things I Can't See From Places I Can't Be (Elizabeth Fulhame) #1 - 6, 2024 |
| Mungo Howard | Studio Window, 2025 |
| Nicholas Hubicki | United (Omen), 2024 |
| Minami Ivory | Would I ever recognise him, or would a different sense betray his presence?, 2025 |
| Shea Kirk | Warwick Gow and their Besser Blocks (left and right view), 2024 |
| Kathy Mackey | Body Drawing 5, 2025 |
| Dylan Marriott | Red Chandelier, 2024 |
| Annabelle McEwen | Reflected Gesticulation, 2024 |
| Johanna Ng | a woman wearing a choker is walking in a crowd, 2024 |
| Claudia Nicholson | Primera Comunión, 2024 |
| Claire Paul | Entangled, 2024 |
| Izabela Pluta | Cavitation (darkroom study), 2025 |
| Julie Purdie | As far as the eye can see, 2025 |
| Justine Roche | A Faceted Unknown, 2025 |
| David Rosetzky | Between Wakefulness and Sleep, 2024 |
| Callan Skimin | Ext. Day., 2025 |
| Lisa Stonham | Interior Fragments, 2024 |
| Ali Tahayori | History repeats itself, 2025 |
| Jessie Turner | The Sting of Immortality, 2024 |
| Tamara Voninski | Chemo Decay: Sun Ritual, 2025 |
| Skye Wagner | To, Too, Two, 2025 |
| Hilary Wardhaugh | Dad's Last Swim, 2024 |
| Miho Watanabe | Awareness of Between-ness: A Day After My Father’s Departure – Self-Portrait in His Room on His Chair, 2025 |
The winner will be announced at the official opening of the 2025 exhibition on Saturday 23 August, with the opening also livestreamed on the MRAC Facebook page.
The exhibition will continue at MRAC until Saturday 11 October 2024.