2025 Blacktown City Art Prize People’s Choice Prize Winner announced

Dongwang Fan wins the People’s Choice Prize! 

The inaugral Blacktown City Art Prize receives entries from across the country with a total prize pool of $23,500 and 5 awards, including the People’s Choice Prize

This year, Sydney based artist, Dongwang Fan has won the 2025 People’s Choice Prize.

Fan’s artwork, Submersion, is a painting showcasing natural landscapes of mountains and water, utilising Chinese traditional techniques and contemporary western painting.

Dongwang Fan said ‘Mountains and water are integral parts of Chinese landscape painting. They depict the concept of Daoism. My painting transforms the traditions of Chinese lacquer landscape carving into western contemporary landscape paintings by using a technique called Sculptural Painting. It is a process of applying the Chinese traditional technique of the low relief jade landscape carvings to reverse them back into painting.’

The People’s Choice Prize is voted for by the public and comes with a $1000 prize.

The Mayor of Blacktown City, Brad Bunting said, ‘The Blacktown City Art Prize continues to highlight the depth of artistic talent within our community and beyond. It’s a privilege to see such powerful and thought-provoking works on display, reflecting the diverse voices and stories of Western Sydney. Congratulations to all the talented artists who have contributed to this year’s exhibition.’

Artist Comment ‘I have been involved with the Blacktown Art Prize many times since 2015. The art prize exhibitions are highly organized and well presented. Each year it attracts emerging local artists as well as established artists, from different parts of the country. It was a very successful multicultural event in the Sydney and Blacktown local art scene. This year I had the honour of having my entry being selected to show and won the People’s Choice Prize!’

Check out Dongwang Fan on social media and his website.

The 2025 Blacktown CityYoung Artist Prize is presented by Blacktown Arts supported by Blacktown City Council’s Environmental Services Unit and Kids Early Learning and the NSW Government through Create NSW.

The 2025 Blacktown City Art Prize is proudly sponsored by: