Congratulations to all the graduates of the 2025 Emerging Artist Support Scheme Awards!

The Emerging Artists Support Scheme (EASS) is an institution at the ANU School of Art & Design, founded in 1988 by the then Director, David Willams. From modest beginnings, EASS has continued to grow over the past three decades and boasts the strong support of our wonderful community of arts patrons: individuals, businesses, galleries and organisations.

Patrons of the Scheme support our undergraduate and postgraduate students by offering a variety of awards, and commissioning and acquiring new artworks. Such generous sponsorship from patrons represents assistance for graduating artists when it is most valuable - at the beginning of their independent careers. The Emerging Artists Support Scheme offers countless opportunities for our graduates; bolsters the prominence of art and design in our local regions; and helps our graduates find their place in the national creative industries sector. The breadth and scope of the Emerging Artists Support Scheme is unique to the ANU School of Art & Design.

Recipients of the 2025 EASS awards are as follows:

ACT Legislative Assembly Prize - Ira Gold (Meriam Mer People), Janet Jeffs

Alliance Française Exhibition Award - Madeleine Forner, Lisa  Wilmot, Helen Goodwin

ANU Art Collection Acquisition Award - Florence Steel

ANU MakerSpace Graduate in Residence Award - Nettie Coleman, Giselle  Bailie-Anderson

Australian National Capital Artists (ANCA) Exhibition Award - Ira Gold (Meriam Mer People), Tanya King, James O'Rourke

Basil Sellers Exhibition and Residency Award - Nettie Coleman

Belco Arts Exhibition Award - Nettie Coleman

Canberra Contemporary Mentoring and Exhibition Award - Ira Gold (Meriam Mer People), Nina Casey-Brown

Canberra Grammar School Residency Award - Alannah Jarvis

Canberra Museum & Gallery Ramp Showcase Award - Giselle Dunn

Canberra Potters Studio Residency & Exhibition Award - Lisa  Stevenson

New Award: Canberra Printmakers Emerging Printmaker Award - Melissa Nickols, Ashlee Whitehead, Remi Prica

Canberra Spinners and Weavers Exhibition Award - Sophie Kihara-Murer, Henry Shawcross, Liv Kidston

Country to Coast Residency & Durras Hall Exhibition Award - Ella McLaughlin

COX Architecture Award - Janet Jeffs

Craft + Design Canberra Emerging Contemporaries Award - Zali Odlum, Giselle Bailie-Anderson, Isaac Kozlovskis, Lisa  Stevenson, Liv Kidston, Nina Casey-Brown, Jake Haynes, Mulloon Institute Design Project (Kayla Wade-Lehman, Eddie  Condé, Anne  Wen, Oonagh O'Dwyer)

Emerging Artist Support Scheme Acquisition Award - Giselle Bailie-Anderson, Nina Casey-Brown, Janet Jeffs, Karen  McSwan Silsby, Lisa Wilmot

Friends of Drill Hall Gallery Acquisition Award - Nina Casey-Brown

Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Exhibition Award - Ira Gold (Meriam Mer People)

Grainger Gallery Award - Liv  Kidston 

M16 Artspace Artist in Residence & Exhibition Award - Nettie Coleman, Melissa Nickols

Megalo Print Studio Graduate Residency Award - Charley  Barnes, Alannah Jarvis, Nettie Coleman, Giselle  Dunn

New Award: Northside Framing Prize - Florence Steel

PhotoAccess Residency Award - Giordana Genero, Ashlee Whitehead

Strathnairn Arts Association Anita McIntyre Residency Award - Emily Burgess-Orton

Strathnairn Arts Association Exhibition Award - Zali Odlum, Sophie Kihara-Murer, Madeleine Forner

New Award: The Tyger New Ground Award - Alexa Kalogeropoulous, Sarah Robinson

Tuggeranong Arts Centre Exhibition Award - Melanie Olde

Awarded throughout the year

ANU School of Art & Design Drawing Prize - Liv Kidston

Peter and Lena Karmel Honours Scholarship in the School of Art - Helen Goodwin

John and Elizabeth Baker Honours Scholarship - Ira Gold (Meriam Mer People), Kiana Rehula

Kate and Bill Guy Art History and Theory Honours Prize - Henry Kilcullen

ANU Visual Arts Endowment Scholarship (BVART) - Isaac Kozlovskis

ANU Visual Arts Endowment Scholarship (BDESN) - Kitty Newlyn

Gray Smith and Joan Scott Prize - Lisa Wilmot

The Janet Wilkie Memorial Prize for Art History and Curatorship - Mei Wong, Kate Snashall, Ruby Minchin

The Janet Wilkie Memorial Prize for Art History and Theory Honours - Eleanor O'Toole

The Janet Wilkie Memorial Prize for Introduction to Art History and Curatorship - Anjani Mane

Nigel Thomson Travel Grant - Jonathan Adam

Max Hawk Travelling Scholarship in the School of Art - Rebecca Faurby

Peter and Lena Karmel Anniversary Prize in Art - Elesa Stellios

For more information about the awards, please email admin.somad@anu.edu.au 

Images of opening night awards ceremony by Ashley St. George (Pew Pew Studio).