The Royal Agricultural Society of WA (RASWA) is proud to announce the return of the Perth Royal Art Prize for Landscape in 2025, offering a total prize pool of $20,500, including a non-acquisitive $20,000 first prize.
Now in its fifth decade, the Prize is Western Australia’s most significant award dedicated exclusively to landscape art, celebrating the talent, vision, and diversity of WA-based artists. The professionally curated competition is open to emerging, mid-career, and established artists, providing a prominent platform to exhibit and sell their work to a large, engaged public audience.
The Wilkinson Gallery exhibition will showcase the selected finalist works and is free to attend, with daily access from 10am to 4pm. All exhibited artworks will be available for sale, giving visitors a rare chance to collect original pieces from some of the State’s most talented artists.
Last year’s winner, Hiroshi Kobayashi, a Perth-based artist originally from Fukushima, Japan, took home the $20,000 prize for his work The night above, the sun below. Kobayashi’s conceptual, CAD-assisted artwork explored the contrasting solar movements between hemispheres, layered with acrylic in a spiral motion to evoke nature’s rhythms.
Curator Sandra Murray, who has managed the Prize since 2016, says the Perth Royal Art Prize remains a vital part of WA’s visual arts calendar.
“This is WA’s only professionally curated art prize dedicated solely to the landscape genre. It’s more than a competition – it’s a platform for artists to gain visibility and impact,” she said.
“We encourage artists at all stages of their careers to enter. Whether you’re starting out or have been a practising artist for many years, this Prize gives you a unique opportunity to be seen, sell your work, and be part of a respected legacy.”
Artists are invited to submit works that respond to the broad concept of landscape, encompassing both natural and built environments, realism or abstraction, and all media forms suitable for wall display.
RASWA is proud to celebrate more than 50 years of championing the arts in WA and invites artists from across the state to showcase their talent. The Perth Royal Art Prize for Landscape celebrates their deep connection to the land – the same land that feeds, clothes, and sustains us – aligning with RASWA’s purpose to educate, connect, and champion the essential role of agriculture in everyday life.For more information, including entry criteria and application form, visit perthroyalshow.com.au/competitions/perth-royal-art-prize/ or contact art@raswa.org.au.
