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A pencil-wielding wizard exploring the intricate depths of interiority, Summer Aldis has always had a penchant for elevating limitations into art. Growing up in Australia without means to equip her wandering imagination with a boxload of expressive tools, she worked with pencil and paper, and arguably “an unhealthy amount of stubbornness”, as she gradually developed from a self-taught artist to an award-winning champion of the humble graphite.
1st Prize Winner, RAYMAR Painting Award 2025: Brad Kunkle
3rd Prize Winner, RAYMAR Painting Award 2025: Jennifer Allnutt
2nd Prize Winner, Victoria Olt Gallery Drawing Award 2025: Senescence
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A photographer, visual alchemist, and consummate storyteller, Lillian Liu has long inhabited the borderlands between fantasy and critique — where silk meets steel, where beauty confronts expectation, and where archetypes are not just reimagined but rebelliously reclaimed.
Grand Prize Winner, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2025: Xavier Escala & Nina Murashkina
2nd Prize Winner, RAYMAR Painting Award 2025: Adrienne Stein
1st Prize Winner, Victoria Olt Gallery Drawing Award 2025: Brad Kunkle
3rd Prize Winner, Victoria Olt Gallery Drawing Award 2025: Summer Aldis