Artists wait nervously for this Saturday’s Art Awards Presentation

Hundreds of entries poured through the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum doors last week by artists from around Australia all hoping to win in ‘The 41^st Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards 2016′.  But which works will be selected?

Works by emerging and established artists, aged fifteen years and over, have the opportunity to take home the coveted Overall prize of $15,000 thanks to major sponsor, Rio Tinto. In addition to the Overall Award, there is a further $25,000 prize pool on offer thanks to the generous support of local individuals, businesses and industry, including Anderson’s Auto City, Queensland Alumina Limited, Gladstone Area Water Board, Australia Pacific LNG, Gladstone Ports Corporation, McDonald’s Gladstone Region and many more.