About the Prize
Art rooted in the GreenWay
GreenWay Art Prize is an eco-art prize celebrating a living urban corridor and the communities it connects.
An eco-art prize for Sydney's inner west
GreenWay Art Prize is an open invitation for artists to engage with the GreenWay, an urban transport corridor threading through Sydney's inner west.
The GreenWay runs 7 km from Rozelle to Tempe, passing through parks, under freeways, past wetlands and over ridges. GreenWay Art Prize treats this corridor as both subject and site. Artists respond to its ecology, its history, and its daily rhythm.
GreenWay Art Prize is shaped by the belief that art can deepen the way a community sees its own landscape. Participating artists bring new perspectives to a familiar route, turning an everyday walk or cycle into something noticed, felt, and shared.
What is the GreenWay?
The GreenWay is a shared path and urban green corridor in Sydney's inner west. It connects Rozelle Bay to Tempe Reserve, running 7 km through the suburbs of Rozelle, Leichhardt, Annandale, Camperdown, Newtown, and St Peters.
The corridor follows former rail and road reservations, threading through pockets of urban bushland, alongside waterways, and beneath motorway infrastructure. It is a daily commute for cyclists and walkers, a habitat corridor for wildlife, and a community space for the inner west.
GreenWay Art Prize treats this corridor as a subject worthy of sustained artistic attention: its contradictions, its beauty, its ecology, and its people.
The prize is open to artists of all disciplines
Painting & Drawing
Two-dimensional works that interpret the GreenWay landscape, its ecology, or its communities.
Photography
Documentary or fine-art photography engaging with the corridor, its people, and its natural systems.
Installation
Site-responsive works that bring the GreenWay's character into the exhibition space or into the corridor itself.
Ceramics & Textile
Material practices that draw on the textures, patterns, and processes found along the GreenWay.
Sculpture
Three-dimensional works exploring the physical and spatial qualities of the urban green corridor.
And Beyond
GreenWay Art Prize welcomes any discipline. Work does not need to be made on the GreenWay, but it must be genuinely in conversation with it.
What GreenWay Art Prize stands for
Ecology
GreenWay Art Prize centres the living systems of the corridor: its trees, soil, water, and wildlife.
Community
GreenWay Art Prize connects artists with the people who live, work, and move through the inner west every day.
Creative Practice
GreenWay Art Prize supports artists who take their practice outside the studio and into the urban landscape.
Place
GreenWay Art Prize is rooted in a specific geography: 7 km of inner Sydney that is changing, growing, and worth knowing.
Find GreenWay Art Prize
Address
10 Hill Street
Leichhardt NSW 2040
Prize Dates
20 – 22 September 2024
Join GreenWay Art Prize
GreenWay Art Prize welcomes artists, community groups, local businesses, and anyone curious about eco-art in Sydney's inner west. Reach out to find out how to participate, partner, or attend.