Tasmanian-based artist Zoe Grey has been announced as the winner of the esteemed 2024 Hadley’s Art Prize for her work The Shape of Rock. One of Australia’s most lucrative art awards worth $100,000, the annual acquisitive art prize is awarded to the most outstanding portrayal of the Australian landscape.

The 28-year-old second-time Hadley’s Art Prize finalist’s work was selected out of 35 finalists by an expert judging panel comprising the Senior Curator, First Nations Art at the National Gallery of Australia Tina Baum; Senior Curator, Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Jane Devery; and celebrated British-Australian artist and Associate Head of Art at the University of Tasmania, Dr Neil Haddon.

Zoe Grey works in the field of painting, as well as drawing, collage and ceramics, her practice exploring notions of home, connection to place and the experience of landscape. Her winning work The Shape of Rock depicts the rugged landscape of Marrawah, a remote coastal community on the northwest edge of Tasmania where the artist grew up.