Finalists, Winners & Recipients
Check out the finalists and winners for the SALA Awards – and where to find them during the Festival! Most finalists will be announced in July, so that you can make plans to see their work during August. Winners are announced at the end of the Festival.
Head to our Awards page for information about applying for the awards, or check out our archive of past winners.

Kaspar Schmidt Mumm’s participatory sculpture ROCKAMORA invited audiences to find purpose in play and challenged conventional ideas of what kind of art is shown in cultural institutions.
- Cheryl Bridgart
- Lucinda Penn
- Kaspar Schmidt Mumm

Marian Sandberg’s The Presence collapsed past technology with current technological concerns, a kinetic sculpture echoing the perpetual digital scrolling of the modern day.
- Kate Kurucz
- Jacob Logos
- Marian Sandberg
The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award
For the most outstanding work in any medium in SALA Festival 2023. The finalists will feature in a dedicated finalist exhibition at Keith Murdoch House in Adelaide.




The judges found Susan’s moving image work Through My Lens to be evocative, with a depth that was echoed both conceptually and materially.
- Bundy Bannerman
- Sara Boni
- Susan Bruce
- Jingwei Bu
- Amber Cronin
- Stephanie Doddridge
- Kane Dyer
- David Hume
- Kate Kurucz
- Anna Lindner
- Jungle Phillips
- Janet Raleigh
- Angela Valamanesh
- Joel Zimmermann

Stephanie’s installation The Gardened Mind impressed upon the judges a sense of being privy to something very personal and demonstrated purposeful momentum across a variety of materials.
- Stephanie Doddridge
- Alyssa Powell-Ascura
- Marian Sandberg

Kate is recognised for work in her exhibition Eventual Horizon, which has strong thematic ties to scientific endeavor that are made all the more fascinating for Kate’s rendering of them.
- Kate Kurucz
- Sarah Neville & collaborating artists
- Janet Raleigh

The judges were impressed with Katrina’s level of technique and ability to capture a mood. The depth and detail within the work drew the eye to several different areas of focus within the same work, and the judges were particularly impressed with the use of light and shade.
- Carolyn Corletto
- Katrina Linn
- Eamonn Vereker

In his debut solo exhibition, Forgotten Fables of the South-East, Tyson presented inclusive portraiture that the judges felt fully encapsulated the principles of the Don Dunstan Foundation Award.
- Tyson Jay Brant
- Dave Nettle
- Yasemin Sabuncu

The panel were impressed by the strength of Yasemin’s story and her desire to share it dynamic ways. Yasemin will be supported to present new work at Praxis Artspace during SALA Festival 2024.
to be announced
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Banner image: Kate Kurucz, Haza (still), 2023, single channel video