Ramsay Art Prize

The Art Gallery of South Australia has announced Jack Ball as the winner of the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize 2025, the nation’s most generous prize for Australian artists under forty, with the work Heavy Grit.

The Perth-born, Sydney-based artist explores themes of queer intimacy and desire in their winning work. Heavy Grit was developed in response to a collection of scrapbooks held by the Australian Queer Archives.

In a prize with no material boundaries, this year’s winning work is comprised of diverse mediums including inkjet prints, textured stained glass, beeswax, charcoal, copper pipe, fabric, paint, sand and rope.

The judges were unanimous in their decision and describe the winning work as sensual, experimental and sophisticated. Jack Ball’s Ramsay Art Prize 2025 entry now becomes part of AGSA’s collection.

See the works of all 22 finalists in the exhibition and have your say in the People’s Choice Prize.

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