2026 Waste 2 Art Regional Showcase Winners!

August 17, 2026
Waste 2 Art

The Regional Showcase has officially opened in Broken Hill and it looks amazing!

Congratulations to all our creative Waste 2 Art Entrants, the judges poured over your artworks for hours and have confidently and unanimously awarded the winners as follows:

AWARD TITLE OF WORK ARTIST COUNCIL
Primary 2D Individual ‎Winner Help – We are Drowning!‎ Dru Martinez DUBBO
Primary 2D Class ‎Winner Wise Owls Spring Hill Public School ‎ ORANGE
Primary 3D Class ‎Winner Whale of a Time Oberon Public School OBERON
Primary 3D Individual ‎Winner Lil Waste Warriors Lola Houghton DUBBO
Primary Functional ‎Individual Winner Recycled Heart Zara Withers BROKEN HILL
Primary Functional ‎Class Winner Hidden Treasures Spring Hill Public School ‎ ORANGE
Secondary 2D Winner Smoky Waste AACES (Aboriginal Art ‎Community Education ‎Sistas)‎ BROKEN HILL
Secondary 3D Highly ‎Commended The Rose Tom McKeon COONAMBLE
Secondary 3D Winner Hope Walking Eve Napier ORANGE
Secondary Functional ‎Winner Pretty Journal Carter Fitzpatrick OBERON
Community 2D Highly ‎Commended Wildflowers and Last Days ‎ Ellen Scott DUBBO
Community 2D Winner Salvaged Fibres ‎ Sarah Pratt BROKEN HILL
Community 3D Winner ‎‎(Equal first) ‎ Against the Tide Caroline Tarr DUBBO
Community 3D Winner ‎‎(Equal first) ‎ Ouroboros / Reflections on ‎Waste Ella Horsfall BROKEN HILL
Community Functional ‎Highly Commended The Second Best Shirt Rebekah Pierce ORANGE
Community Functional ‎Winner ‎ That’s Fab-plastic Tamsin Triance COWRA
Open 2D Equal First ‎ Wired Waste Kelly Leonard BROKEN HILL
Open 2D Equal First ‎ Medical Waste – It’s ‎Sickening Heather Rendell BATHURST
Open 3D Highly ‎Commended Emperor Darlek William English ‎ COWRA
Open 3D Winner ‎ Dare to Dream Rhonda Marie COWRA
Open Functional Highly ‎Commended Sunny Day Wear Rosanne Standfield COONAMBLE
Open Functional Winner Ply Another Day Pete Hannelly PARKES
Herb Clarke Memorial ‎Award Found on my fathers ‎workbench Alison Westcott PARKES
Curators Award ‎ Rattlesnake Mia Buckley GILGANDRA
Waste to Wonder Award Rubbish or Fairy Wren Felicity Cavanough MID WESTERN
Cataloguers Choice ‎ Totally ‘Sic’ Bag ‎ Rain, Tayla, Charlotte, Sansa, ‎Maddie and Willow May – Stuart Town Public School DUBBO
Cutest on Show Award Flossy the Eco Monkey Sophie Richmond ORANGE
Educators Pick  ‎ Sushi with my Kids ‎ Catherine Morgan LACHLAN
Best work made from a Shoe Box Riding the wave; Shrinking your footprint

 

 Zig Zag Public School

 

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Textiles Award Highly Commended Happy Scrappy Quilt Donna Pumpa BOGAN
Textiles Award Wildflowers and Last Days Ellen Scott DUBBO
Access Metal Award (Equal First) Hiding with Surprise Joseph Lynch BATHURST
Access Metal Award (Equal First) Stuck in the Strait of Hormuz Alison Dent ORANGE
Overall Winner

 

 The Noble Bin Chicken Chistina McConville BROKEN HILL