Winning the People’s Choice helped my confidence, if hundreds of people decided they liked my work best in such a beautiful display of art, that really inspires me as I sit in the studio and paint new work.

Jo Bone, glass artist, won the Significant 3D award in the 2018 Stanthorpe Art Prize. She has recently been creating trophies for various award ceremonies, including the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Containers for Change and the Queensland Literary Awards.

“One thing that was really nice about the exhibition for me was meeting Gina & Tim Fairfax”

“I had always seen it as an art prize of excellent standing, so when I saw a call for entries and knew that I had something worthwhile submitting that year, I did.”

“I was not aware of how ground breaking it was until other photographers came up to me on the night saying how important it was for a photograph to win an Art Prize that has many other more traditional forms of art as competition.”