1st Prize Winner, Catherine K. Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award Award 2025: Lara Hochreiter
3rd Prize Winner, Catherine K. Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award Award 2025: David Derflinger
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2025: Catherine K. Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award Finalists Announced
The unveiling begins - and what a year it has been for the Catherine K. Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award category! Open to all mediums, we saw an amazing and diverse selection of entries. Our Jury Panel - including esteemed Arts Champions Catherine K. Gyllerstrom of BearWolf Books and Vicki Fox of Quirky Fox Gallery - have been going through the entries and making the incredibly difficult decisions. Once again, the overall quality of entries was exceptional; we are deeply honoured by our community's interest in the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize.
With just 2 months left to enter the 2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, we would love to share more of the wonderful entries we have received so far! The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts, in all static mediums including Traditional Art media, Digital Art media, and Photographic media; and all genres from realism and hyperrealism, to pop surrealism and lowbrow.
Karin Hauck is the 2nd Prize Winner of the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Founders' Emerging Artist Award 2023, the focus of her interest was always the human being and his consciousness, in thinking, feeling, acting and being. The desire arose to express their knowledge and experiences through paintings. She started to realize this with realistic oil painting in 2015.
Congratulations to the 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Founders’ Emerging Artist Award Winners: Sarah Lee, Karin Hauck, and Hannah Tjia!
2nd Prize Winner, Catherine K. Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award Award 2025: Camille Kathryn Wiseman
Now is your opportunity to have a voice and help determine the winner of the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize People’s Choice Award!
The unveiling begins - and what a year it has been for our newest award category! Open to all mediums, we saw an amazing and diverse selection of entries to the 33PA Emerging Artist Award - so much so that we have raised the amount of finalists AGAIN, from 20 to 25!
Sarah Lee is the 1st Prize Winner of the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Founders' Emerging Artist Award 2023, she creates sculptures of animals that reveal fragility, vulnerability, insecurity, human emotions, awkwardness, odd self-inflicting behaviors, adaptation and survival. Eggshells are fragile empty houses that are abandoned after birth; they become lifeless and no longer serve a purpose.
Hannah Tjia is the 3rd Prize Winner of the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Founders' Emerging Artist Award 2023; she is a painter and draftswoman who combines figurative studio painting with illustration and decorative design inspired by her love of folklore and fairytales. Her work explores otherworldly creatures and motifs representative of her imagination and perception of reality.
Last but certainly not least! What an incredible debut for the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Founders’ Emerging Artist Award. Open to...