AWARDS
Brisbane City Council’s annual Artforce Brisbane Awards is an all-ages celebration. Held annually, the Awards showcase Artforce Brisbane artworks completed in the preceding 12 months.
The awards recognise outstanding artwork in the following categories:
Lord Mayor’s Award
Best Overall Traffic Signal Box
Best Energex Box
Best 12 and Under
Best 18 and Under
Best High School
Best Primary School, Kindy and Creche
Best Organisation
People’s Choice
All Artforce Brisbane participants are eligible for an award.
Participants who have painted a traffic signal box will be entered into the Lord Mayor’s award and Overall Winner categories.
Energex Pad-mount Transformers (EPT) have their own separate category ‘Best Energex Box’ and EPT participants are not eligible for other category awards.
All participants will be entered into the People’s Choice Award.
The Artforce Brisbane Awards are judged and selected by an independent judging panel. All eligible Artforce participants receive an invitation to attend.
The ‘Burbs
Lucy, Joanna and Miriam Wales
2021 Winners
Lord Mayor’s Award
Name: Lisa-Marie Vecchio
Title: High hopes and green slopes (view artwork)
Location: TSB 0475, Juliette St & Earl St, Greenslopes
Overall winner
Name: Natasha Chee & Calum Prasser
Title: Spring Hill in Springtime (view artwork)
Location: TSB 8114, Gregory Tce & Victoria Park entry road, Spring Hill
Best Energex box
Name: Siobhan Browne
Title: Welcome to the Big Top (view artwork)
Location: SC22658, 1290 Logan Rd, Mt Gravatt
12 and under – winner
Name: Mary Nisbet-Smith
Title: Peggy the five leggy (view artwork)
Location: TSB 0639, Annerley Rd & Tamar St & Rusk St, Annerley
18 and under
Name: D.K. Perkins
Title: There’s always a Silver Lining (view artwork)
Location: TSB 8116, Sylvan Rd near Kate St, Toowong
Best Primary School & Early Childhood Centre
Name: Little Scholars School of Early Learning with artist Dylan Sarra
Title: Child’s Mind (view artwork)
Location: TSB 0072, Turbot st & George St, Brisbane City
Best Senior School
Name: Iona College
Title: Graham’s Crossing (view artwork)
Location: TSB 0967, North Rd pedestrian crossing at Iona College, Wynnum West
Best Organisation
Name: Hope for Life Mentors
Title: A Small Gift (view artwork)
Location: TSB 0681, Old Cleveland Rd & Cavendish Rd, Coorparoo
People’s Choice
Name: Jennifer Garcia Rodriguez
Title: Thinking of green (view artwork)
Location: TSB 0176, South Pine Rd & Railway Place, Alderley
Spring Hill in Springtime
Overall 2021 Winner
By Natasha Chee & Calum Prasser
Grand Designs of Woolloongabba
Overall 2019 – 2020 Winner
By Helen and Gemma Lucas
2019 – 2020 Winners
Lord Mayor’s Award
Name: Ben Hynes
Title: I See You (view artwork)
Location: TSB 8021, Beams Rd & Carselgrove Ave & Golden Pl, Fitzgibbon
Name: Lucy, Joanna and Miriam Wales
Title: The ‘Burbs (view artwork)
Location: TSB 8090, Upper Kedron Road & Cemetry Road, Ferny Grove
Overall winner
Name: Helen and Gemma Lucas
Title: Grand Designs of Woolloongabba (view artwork)
Location: TSB 0428, Stanley St & Annerley Rd, South Brisbane
Best Energex box
Name: Kseniia Bessonova
Title: Joy (view artwork)
Location: SC840295, School Road (60) & Albemarle Street, Yeronga
12 and under – winner
Name: Zoe Hodder
Title: Brisbane Port Giraffes (view artwork)
Location: TSB 0501, Florence St (Pedestrian Crossing) & Wynnum Central State School, Wynnum
18 and under
Name: Dylan Ebeling
Title: Healthy at Hibiscus (view artwork)
Location: TSB B0633, Creek Road and Donnington Road, Carina Heights
Best organisation
Name: YMCA Vocational School
Title: Looking Back, Moving Forward (view artwork)
Location: TSB 0654, Boundary Rd & Progress Rd, Wacol
2018 – 2019 Winners
Lord Mayor’s Award
Name: Jenn Heibloem
Title: Swinburne Street Healthy Lifestyle (view artwork)
Location: EPT SC3877, Swinburne Street and Lutwyche Road, Lutwyche
Overall winner
Name: Maxim Chikanchi
Title: City Seizing (view artwork)
Location: TSB B0066, Wickham Street and Gipps Street, Fortitude Valley
Best Energex box
Name: Catherine Pepper
Title: Gabba Growth (view artwork)
Location: SC11955, Annerley Road (near Grove Street), Woolloongabba
12 and under
Name: Sienna Finch
Title: A Stroll by the Brook (view artwork)
Location: TSB B0896, Shaw Road opposite the tennis centre entrance, Wooloowin
18 and under
Name: Kate Eddington
Title: Carseldine Cats (view artwork)
Location: TSB B0633, Creek Road and Donnington Road, Carina Heights
Best organisation
Name: Eating Disorders Queensland
Title: No Wrong Way to Have a Body (view artwork)
Location: TSB B0140, Sherwood Road and Jephson Street, Toowong
City Seizing
Overall 2018 – 2019 Winner
By Maxim Chikanchi, Woolloongabba
You can view the all the winning entries on the Council website here
