Penrith Regional Gallery Youth Art Prize Exhibition

The theme for the 2024 prize is ‘colour stories’, drawing inspiration from artist Margo Lewers and her lifelong fascination with colour.

“I am intensely interested in colour. It excites me and I want to show the effect of one colour upon another…”
– Margo Lewers

This year young artists are asked to tell their own story through colour, and to consider how colour can create mood, evoke emotions, or conjure memories. The annual exhibition includes four categories – lower primary, upper primary, secondary and youth, with submissions open to artists with a connection to Penrith and its surrounds.

Finalists and winners are selected based on the artwork’s originality and artistic interpretation of the theme.

This year’s judges are This Place Where They Dwell artist, Diana Baker Smith and Toby Chapman, Director, Visual Arts.

Submit an artwork now for a chance to be part of Penrith Youth Art Prize.

Submissions close 2 May

Winners and finalists will be announced on 7 May.