2024 major Awards & Prizes

The 2024 Plein Air Down Under Painting Festival has over $12000 in prizes and awards spread over multiple categories.

Major Awards

$3,000 Ray White Mandurah Acquisitional Award
$2,500 Open Category presented by the City of Mandurah
$1,000 Non-professional Category presented by Community Bank Halls Head
$500 People’s Choice Award Spirit of the Landscape Exhibition
$500 People’s Choice Award Festival Art Exhibition
$500 PADU Experience Peel Award 
$1,500 Pinjarra Acquisitional Award presented by the Shire of Murray & Pinjarra Connect
$200 Highly Commended Award 

$200 Highly Commended Award 
$50 Youth Award under 13 
$150 Gillian-Kaye Peebles Youth Award for Excellence: 

 

Quick Draw Awards

$500 Best in Show
$350 in products, Best Oil Painting presented by Michael Harding Paints & Leon Holmes Products
$350 in products, Best Watercolour Painting

$350 in products, Best Pastel
$350 in products, Best Painting (other mediums)
$50 Youth Award under 13
$50 Youth Award under 13