Nanda\Hobbs artists Stephanie Eather and Braddon Snape are finalists in the Gosford Art Prize, a $25,000 acquisitive award presented at the Gosford Regional Gallery. Impressively, this is Snape's second art prize announcement this month with his inclusion in the 2025 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award in Victoria.
This year the Gosford Art Prize judges are acclaimed artist Stephanie nova Milne and curator and writer, Gina Mobayed.
Stephanie is one-half of the intimately communal artist, nova Milne. nova Milne’s installations include moving image, screen-based sculpture, sound, movement-time notations, artists books, and their ongoing re-archiving actions. nova Milne received their collaboratively credited MFA from UNSW Art & Design, and an excerpt of their exegesis appears in the anthology TIME: Documents of Contemporary Art. They’ve been recipients of several awards including the NSW Visual Artists Fellowship (formerly Helen Lempriere), Samstag Scholarship, and the New York Foundation of the Arts Digital Fellowship. They’ve participated in several international residencies, including as Bemis Center fellows. nova Milne both currently lectures at the National Art School. Their works are represented in public collections including the AGNSW, AGWA, The Centre Pompidou, Lyon Housemuseum & Deakin University.
Gina Mobayed is a curator and writer specialising in contemporary art. She works with living artists, developing major new work for the public realm, institutions and collections. She also works across policy and advocacy for the arts and cultural sector as an advisor and cultural strategist. Gina has held senior roles at Cultural Capital, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery and Artbank. She has been a co-director of Firstdraft and on the advisory board for UNSW Galleries.
Winners will be announced on Friday 5 September and the works will be exhibited from 6 September - 9 November 2025.
IMAGE previous page: Stephanie Eather, Indigo glass, red moon, 2025, oil on recycled merino wool, 76cm x 92cm
IMAGE above: Braddon Snape, Despite the Intrusion, 2024, Welded, air inflated and powder coated stainless steel. Welded and oxidised Lyten steel. H108 x W85 x D74
