Congratulations to Sophie Cape on winning the 2025 Hadley’s Art Prize in Hobart.
Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, Sophie Cape's artwork straddles the sublime with a cathartic expulsion of energy.
Using unconventional mediums, her artworks are vast in scale and performative in their execution. Each are psychological self-portraits, voicing the dialogue between the internal and external landscape, and of past and present experience.
Cape's winning artwork Thunder Shifts the Shivering Sands was created in situ within the soaked landscape of southern NSW after the 2024 floods. Created using rust, charcoal, soil, pigment and binder on canvas, the artwork was selected for best portrayal of the Australian landscape.
‘This painting is a portrait of survival and decay, beauty and destruction.’ Cape says.
The Hadley’s Art Prize features thirty contemporary Australian artists selected as finalists for the 2025 edition of the esteemed $100,000 acquisitive prize for the best portrayal of the Australian landscape.
The finalists’ works will be presented in an exhibition at Hadley’s Orient Hotel from 29 August to 21 September 2025.
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