2026 Fisher's Ghost Art Award

Next date: Saturday, 26 September 2026 | 10:00 AM to Friday, 04 December 2026 | 04:00 PM

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2025 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award finalist exhibition, Campbelltown Arts Centre. Image credit: Silversalt Photography

The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award is an annual art award and exhibition inviting artists to submit works in a variety of artistic categories and mediums. Now in its 64th year, there is over $60,000 in prize money to be won across the categories. In 2026, the celebrated Open Award, which is acquisitive to the Campbelltown City Council Art Collection, is valued at $50,000.   

Over the years, the Open Award has been awarded to some of Australia’s most respected contemporary artists including Elisabeth Cummings, Suzanne Archer, Marion Borgelt, Raquel Ormella, Justene Williams, Khaled Sabsabi, Tina Havelock Stevens, Kuba Dorabialski, Robert Fielding, Michael Cook, and Angela Tiatia.   

The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award coincides with Campbelltown’s annual Festival of Fisher’s Ghost. Held over ten days, the Festival dates back to 1956 and celebrates Australia’s most famous ghost – Frederick Fisher. 

2026 Fisher's Ghost Art Award Finalists

Open Category

Marian Abboud, Sister +++++ Familial Formations III
Zico Albaiquni, Tatanan Hijau Kemiskinan (Order of the Poverty Green),
Diane Andrewartha, Spirited Woman
Paul Angus, In such nights as these
Atong Atem, Weaver
Tara Axford, While We Slept
Mostafa Azimitabar, I care about you
Billy Bain, Snake Charmer
Bronwyn Bancroft, The Power of a Baabinje's Love
Nathan Beard, Ciceroni (i)
Emma Beer, Kambri
Gillian Bencke, Array
Robby Bennett, A Reflection of Venus
Lee Bethel, The Land Listens
Claire Birbeck, Colour Keeps Memory
Elia Bosshard, Model For Expansion (Highway)
Ilona Bruckard, Neither Lost nor Broken
Jennifer Burns, Ko'a Pele
Kieran Butler, Gifts of cherry guava’s and hibiscus flowers (lessons from every past life I’ve lived so far)
Eleanor Louise Butt, Orange Veiled Abstraction
Evie Cahir, Home Words I
Steve Carr, Bush Man
Mark Maurangi Carrol, Earthseed (boy in taro field)
Michelle Cawthorn, Peter Portrait
Joshua Charadia, Their hearts the ocean
Casey Chen, Merciful Navigation
Donovan Christie, Eternal Flame
Zara Collins, Sookie
Karen Coull, Unidentified Woman #15
Carolyn Craig, Temporal Persistence : affective detritus
Emily Crockford, I love her cake it is so yummy, Jam Cream.
Lily Cummins, My days blur into one and I am consumed with thoughts of you
Dagmar Cyrulla, The Model II
Ryan William Daffurn, Still Life in Landscape
Jo Darvall, Whilding D
Marley James Dawson, I-Beam
Shoufay Derz, The Abyss
Jagath Dheerasekara, Dinner Table
Sebastian Di Mauro, Abridged Landscape
Christine Druitt-Preston, The fair sex – Felicity
John Edwards, Captain Thunderbolt on the move
Martine Emdur, Sacred water 2
Bryella Garmanjan Farrell, Changing Tides
Ellen Ferrier, Touching the world otherwise (vibrant matter)
the artHITects (Gary Carsley and Ren Jie Teoh), Still Standing Still (Sundered Country’side #2)
Nathalie Gautier-Hartog, Brisbane Waters
Amala Groom, more crows than cops
Wei Guan, Newborn
James Hale, Lygon Street
Miranda Hampson, HELD IN ABEYANCE
David Hawkes, Carnage
Claire & Sean Healy & Cordeiro, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Kyra Henley, Horse
Nadia Hernández, Sentí que ya nada era mío (I felt as though nothing was mine)
Annette Houston, Entangled
Lucas Howard, The Lost Thing
Binghui Huangfu, Trace no 30. Ether/code (1) (2) (3) series A.
Leeanne Hunter, Epiphany - A walk down memory lane
Danny Ivanovski, In Memory of Red Cedar
Christopher Jewitt, Homesick
Virginia Keft, Dhurri Warrayibu, madjam dharri-ba (sun is falling, flying fox rise)
Deborah Kelly, Early Bird (for Fiona Winning)
Daniel Kim, Square Lace
James Lai, Paddocks and vineyards under a starry sky
Hannah Lange, Bila Murun (the river is alive)
Regina Law, Yellow Light
Rachelle Lawler, It's All Over You
Marianne Le Cheaf, A Scaffolding of Red and Bone
Eleni Loakimidis, Delaying the Escape
Dane Lovett, Zoo
Wanita Lowe, Aboriginal Galbaan (woman) bushranger
Karla Marchesi, Shelf Life
Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty, Emenyginy (Goanna)
Laith McGregor, The Dew of the Sea
David McKay, House Of The Rising Sun
Aimee Meng, In Her Own Time
Lara Merrett, Green island sleepover
David Middlebrook, After the Rain Paroo Darling National Park
Damien Miller, Paji to Pirrkili
Georgia Morgan, I yam what I yam & Mashallah you’ll be just who you are
Jodie Munday, Gunlindulin
Yuhana Nashmi, Ask AI
James Nguyen, SÔNG SỐNG SONG
Claudia Nicholson, A song learned from the sunset
Mel O'Callaghan, Inside the dark cave glimmer
Caitie Oldfield, Ghost Guyagalang
Anastasia Parmson, Untitled (Overthinking Corner)
Jahnne Pasco-White, Material immortality 17
Victoria Patrinos, Western Sydney meets Palm Springs
Tom Polo, The Rehearsal (Self Surveillance For A Stage)
Al Poulet, Untitled (Sticks)
Jennie Pry, Portrait of Lynda Draper
Charmaine Pwerle, Awelye
Kristen Radge, Embodied Materialities
Eugenia Raskopoulos, embedded bones #1
Thom Roberts, Family Tree
Brian Robinson, Terraqueous: On stranger tides
Caroline Rothwell, Physic garden (ultramarine)
Monica Rani Rudhar, The Fire in me was lit long ago
Kathryn Ryan, Repose
Skye Saxon, Magical & Mystical Caves
Samia Sayed, Culture will never die but my parents will
Peter Sharp, Soldier Crab
Damien Shen, My Cuzzy Nate and the 654 Club
Nicola Smith, Coastal Town Landscape, with Maxi Claw, Fun Claw, and child
Paul Snell, Breathe # 202525
Catherine Stait-Gardner, The mother artist gets back in the kitchen.
Mignon Steele, Sky Quilt
M. Sunflower, Terrorism Nullius
Lex Tan, The mayor Zoe Baker relaxing in the park
Jackson Taylor, 'The 5-9'
Sherna Teperson, Poetics of Vertigo
Kerry Toomey, Stolen
Shan Turner-Carroll, I love You (From the series, Bless You, Bless Me Bless, The Mountain)
Nat Ward, Field of Paper Daisies and Broken Branches
Sally West, Transit Lane
Paul White, Love Bug (Flower Power)
Caroline Zilinsky, Relic

Contemporary Category

Hedar Abadi, Waiting For Rain
Kerrie Abello, Earthquakes
Mostaque Ahmed, Between Silence and Sky
Ratul Alam, KIT KIT Court — Red Silk Cotton Flower
Phoebe Allwell, Threshold (Untitled #19)
Donina Asera, Acolytes Waiting for the Night Ritual
Marisa Ballinger, The WoolTrack
Kate Banazi, Glass Filter (Blue)
Rubyrose Bancroft, Jugan Ngalingah (Connection)
Eva Beltran, Leaning On
Fergus Berney-Gibson, The Scrum
Graham Blondel, Paradise- Night and Day
Julie Brockenshire, 'What The Monkey Whispered'
Sally Browne, Mister Sprinkler
Kelcie Bryant-Duguid, Day 529. Mother and Child
Rick Carlino, Someone Left the Evening Onju
Claire Cavanna, Creating Stories - New Story
Jane Cavanough, Reckoning
Tristan Chant, New Age Monster
Felicity Chapman, Barramundi Scale Shawl
Susie Choi, Lucky Charm
Brendalee Coan, The Moon, Stars and Dancing Barlga Together
Melvy Connell, 'Tinku #3'
Nancy Constandelia, Tokonoma
Giulia Corradi, Wombic
Jess Curran, She's spilling out (revolt)
Alex Cyreszko, Junkspace - Built to Expire
Dale-Myree Dal Santo, Zooxanthellae
Lada Dedić, Demolition Notice; The Coal Chute and the Luxury of Air
Kuweni Dias Mendis, Running Rivers : Pigment of Place -Keeper of time
Rosa Daniela Diaz, Blossom
Maz Dixon, Book Club
Nina Apolonia Dorabialski, Babcia Made Me Do It! (Steal The Cabbage)
Blak Douglas, Son Nation
Andrew Fackrell, The Waiting
Nic Fern, No place for us (after Guernica)
Jezzy Fezzy, Cosmic Monster Volcano
Alexia Fisher, Self Portrait (Son)
Pam French, Song to the Earth
Andrew Frost, External Observations [In the Selvanarca Observation Zone]
Tim Georgeson, SKYVOICES
Shahroud Ghahani, Rematriated Self
Shahtaz Sultana Godhuly, Coleoptera: The Art of Nature's Armour (III)
Keroshin Govender, Nila
Lorna Grear, Watching Each Other
Dani Green, Squirrel!
Jessica Greenland, Water Chi
Eleanor Hall, Morning in the Grotto
Josh Harle, Bearing Tides
Lee Harrop, Truth to Power
Emma-Kate Hart, The Climb Out
Dianna Hickey, Sunsets
Jude Hotchkiss, Terrace
Annette Houston, Light Rye
Eleesa Howard, What We Keep Inside
Kate Howard, Margaret (fraying)
Imogen Jade, Kettles in Kitchens
Eunjoo Jang, If wall could talk
Freya Jobbins, Self Portrait with Sutures
Adam Jones, We're & When
Alun Rhys Jones, Rainbow Sport
Virginia Keft, Wuru watching
Deborah Kelly, A Custodian; A Daphne
Rafiqur Khan, Hope
Saadia Khan, Silent Song of the Sea
Lihnida Krstanoska-Blazeska, If you don't stop you'll miss it...
Amanda Langley, White Bird Amphora
Nikita Lelu, BOOTLICKER
Pamela Leung, Weight of History: Borne Across Borders
Dior Mahnken, Enough
Camille Manley, Under the canopy and down the road
Omi McCurdie, Tits Over Hot Oven
Marieta McNaught, Bad Hair Day
Jo Mellor, The Broken Hill Cobalt Project map.
Samantha Moorhouse, Blast from the past
Ro Murray, Rising Tide I,II,III
Audrey Newton, Nocturne (I could only breathe when I left our room at 3am. I walked around Kyoto, just so I could see some light)
Nelson Nghe, No, Harm Done (II)
Simon Nicholls, Muti-Cultural Community, King Street, Newtown
Jennifer Orchard, Regeneration. A Strange fruit
Michael Owen, The Fragmented Self
Camille Perry, Tandem Bykes
Jessica Pound, Alien and the Girl
Louis Pratt, They Thought
Kara Pryor, Home At Last
Matthew Quick, Perfect Enough
Sani-e-Zahra Rizvi, Soft Armour
Mook Simpson, Moo?
Jozee Singh, Memories Built in Shadow
Sia Smyth, Interior III: Seismic Activity
Lathalia Song, What if truth is water
Marina Strijakova, Beneath the Blue-Green
Jo-Anne Swain, The Fisherman's Daughter
Blake Thomas, Neo Fantasia
Andrew Tomkins, Looking Back Across the River
Shan Turner-Carroll, Ancestors (From the series, Bless You, Bless Me Bless, The Mountain)
Charlie Wells, Harmony
Tina Wheatley, Karen
Jo White, Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
Alison Winchester, Bale of Hay, Kangaroo Island
Hanna Wood, The Eldest Daughter
Xin/ Sylvia Zi, Unbridled 天马行空

Traditional Category

Jackie Anderson, Mismatched chairs
Rick Bardsley-Smith, Abercrombie Charm
Katie Barron, Lime and Cheese Jelly
Paul Brocklebank, Carcoar NSW
Stephen Caldis, Milk Beach- Port Jackson
John Charadia, Snow Gum: Victorian High Country
Marwa Charmand, Happy Accident
Dino Consalvo, View from Kirribilli
Stu Doherty, Lays down with Eels
Leslie Duffin, Show Me Your Drawers: Craft
Monikka Eliah, Taking Space
Michael Fardon, A Lyrebirds Torment
Aree Granopoulos, Rocky Day At Simo's Beach
Bob Gurney, Goobragandra Autumn Beauty
Michelle Hailes, Highland Cow
Melissa Hammond, Making the Invisible Visible
Julia Haralambeva, 48 Plates (beekeeper)
Leanne Harrison Davies, Anthusai
Jen Hsieh, A Place Between Places
Patricia Johnston, The Persimmon Tree
Tracey Jones, Return to Sender
Xeni Kusumitra, The Wall Between Them
Anna Lloyd-Parker, Sulis Minerva (from the Embodied Bodies collection)
Joan Long, The Dress
Nigel Malone, Cody
Graham Marchant, To Plant a garden is to believe in Tomorrow
Carly Marchment, Amphitheatre Series No 4- Bundanon Series
Stephanie McCready, Cascade of light (Coachwood Glen, NSW)
Julie McCurry, Just For Me
Kevin McKay, Empty Bucket
Janita Moloney, St Mary's Cathedral Sydney
Renee Moshi, KEEPSIES
Simon Nicholls, Heavens to Murgatroyd! He is a star!
Anthony Polistena, River crossing
Jaime Prosser, Blackford Cottages
Elizabeth Rankin, Lycee
Anthony Rofe, Meeting Place
Kate Rolshoven, Dancing into May
Imogen Eve Rowe, Abuela
Phoebe Stone, On Giving Up
Jessica Taylor, Winter in Blackheath
Nola Tegel, Still Life with Wattles
Hetty Thompson, The Massive Ficus Tree II
Jules Trudeau, So much had been surrendered
Andrew Vanderschoor, Wedderburn Angophora
Luke Wagner, Leaning into Weather, Longford, Tasmania
Florence Wang, Cold Winter Charm
Maryanne Wick, Embedded (Stamps and Artefacts)
Julie Writer, Rear Ends
Diane Yousouf, City Lights

 

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When

  • Saturday, 26 September 2026 | 10:00 AM - Friday, 04 December 2026 | 04:00 PM

Location

Campbelltown Arts Centre, 1 Art Gallery Road, 2560, View Map

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