James Drinkwater talks about painting, sculpture and his peotic way of seeing the world. A must-listen!

We are proud to announce that our represented artist, Loribelle Spirovski, has been selected as a finalist in the 2025 Lester Prize, with her poignant oil painting titled Fatherhood.

The portrait captures her husband, acclaimed pianist Simon Tedeschi, in a moment of stillness, reclined on the couch with the family cat, Nana, resting on him. It is a tender, domestic scene—deeply personal and quietly profound.

Acclaimed Australian sculptor Braddon Snape has been announced as a finalist in the 2025 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, now in its 16th year. Snape’s entry, Act of Suppression (mirrored union) (2024), was selected from a record 735 submissions—a testament to the work’s technical innovation and conceptual strength.

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.

Congratulations to Renata Pari-Lewis and Kate Nielsen, who have been selected as finalists in the 2025 King’s School Art Prize for their respective works, Love and Forgetting and Still Life with Autumn View.

We’re beyond proud to announce that four of our represented artists have been named finalists in the 2025 Archibald and Wynne Prizes—a massive achievement for Nanda\Hobbs and an extraordinary moment of recognition of these distinctive voices in contemporary Australian art.

Congratulations to Jonathan Dalton, David Fairbairn, Loribelle Spirovski and James Powditch. This year’s selection reflects incredible depth, power, and range—and we are honoured to be alongside our artists on this journey.

Nanda\Hobbs is thrilled to be exhibiting at Aotearoa Art Fair again this year with a amazing line-up of artists at our two booths—in the galleries and works on paper sections.

Renata Pari-Lewis is among eleven prominent Australian artists currently showing a the Broken Hill City Art Gallery. The exhibition is the result of an intensive two-week residency taken by the artists—known as the "Block Back-Ins" Art Collective—in the landscape surrounding Broken Hilll in May 2024. 

Image: Renata Pari-Lewis, Before the Beginning and After the End, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 480cm

JUST RELEASED: Lottie Consalvo and her exhibition Long Dawn is profiled in a six-page feature by Camilla Wagstaff in the latest edition of Art Collector. 

Congratulations to Lottie Consalvo—winner of the 2025 Muswellbrook Art Prize—judged by Anne Ryan, curator of Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW.

Nanda\Hobbs is delighted to present three exceptional artists at the 2025 Melbourne Art Fair— David Fairbairn, Lottie Consalvo and Yoshio Honjo. 

Congratulations to Peter Gardiner for taking out the prestigious John Leslie Art Prize 2024 for landscape painting at Gippsland Art Gallery.

We're thrilled to announce Stephanie Eathers runner up selection in the 2024 Vincent Prize by judge Jude Rae.

Congratulations to Nanda\Hobbs artists—Yoshio Honjo, Nicola Higgins, Caroline Zilinsky, Kirsty Neilson and Ben Smith who are all Archibald finalists, and Katherine Hattam and Nick Santoro who are selected for the Sulman Prize. 

Congratulations to three of our talented artists who have been selected as finalists in significant art prizes.