When Sydney-born painter Christopher Horder was in Year 10, his English teacher gave him Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel On The Road. Influenced by its anti-conformist message, Horder left school a year later to enrol in a Diploma of Fine Arts at TAFE. “I had to go and start doing what I wanted to do,” he says. Soon after, Horder rented a space at Lennox Street Studios in Sydney’s Newtown, where, aside from a productive year in Berlin in 2010, he’s been painting on and off for 30 years. 

We are thrilled to share that Nick Santoro, Jody Graham, and Tony Mighell have all been selected as finalists in the Waverley Art Prize 2025. Chosen from over 550 submissions, their works are among the 40 finalists.