LuminART Awards offer artists the unique opportunity to display their work at our multi award winning event, Luminous. This light and art festival attracts more than 25,000 people to Gladstone Tondoon Botanic Gardens across three exciting nights.

Entries may be submitted by artists ages 15 years and older in two categories, 2D or 3D and must glow or be illuminated.

Golden Orb Spider by Clive Rouse and Margaret Worthington

This Golden Orb spider is at home in these beautiful gardens. She is positioned in the centre of her wheel-shaped web with her slender legs delicately extending outwards, her body a glistening gold, playfully representing the golden sheen of her web. The artists have skilfully captured the bioluminescent light of the spider's exoskeleton, giving it a lifelike sheen and mystical aura that seems almost metallic in appearance.

This artwork reminds us that art can challenge our ideas of beauty, depicting what many are fearful of, but which can still be beautiful, blending the natural beauty of the spider with an otherworldly luminosity. It evokes a sense of wonder and respect.

Light in our Harbour by Charlotte Orgill

In this imaginative reinterpretation of the theme, the artist has creatively elevated a humble lamp into a radiant work of art, capturing the essence of Gladstone harbour with insight and skill.

Charlotte’s artwork presents a strong consideration to the theme of ‘Luminous’. Through meticulous craftsmanship and a keen artistic vision, she has brought to life the vibrant hues of Gladstone harbour. In her artist statement Charlotte describes her creative process, highlighting the deliberate use of ‘blue, green, orange, and tan light brown as the key colours to depict the landscape of the islands off the shore from the Gladstone marina.’

Her integration of LED lighting not only enhances the brilliance of the piece but also underscores the significance of this pivotal area, symbolising its visual splendour and deep socio-economic importance to our city.

The Seven Sisters by Bindi Waugh

This is a strong sculptural artwork, by an accomplished local artist exploring the timeless story of the Seven Sisters, a tale of love and obsession encapsulated within the celestial constellation Pleiades. It invites the viewer into a nocturnal garden experience where the night sky is artistically rendered.

Bindi’s innovative use of everyday materials, polycarbonate sheeting, spray paint and garden lighting demonstrates a developed understanding of the media employed to create the piece, underscoring a deep connection to the narrative it conveys. We acknowledge that there are many symbols and stories embedded within this artwork that we may not and cannot know or fully understand, but this work resonated with us, its composition creating interest in the work, a wish to look deeper into it, and to learn more about the stories represented and the mysteries embedded within the stars.

Reverie by Linda Ebenestelli

Reverie. noun. in the sense of Daydream.
Enclosed in a glass cube are a stained-glass panel a glass teapot and glass accessories, all of which sparkle and shines.

Artworks will be pre-selected by our Judges (Gladstone Region Mayor Matt Burnett and Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum Curator Claire Robinson) with 20 final works exhibited at Luminous.

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