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The Jury Art Prize 2026
Benthic
Peta Riley
Coloured Porcelain
The unseen, where looking up opens a space between what is felt, imagined, and just beyond reach. My process is driven by the medium, a purpose and the knowing that there is more—asking questions to reveal what some cannot yet see. The Benthic Zone is the ecological region at the very bottom of a body of water. Everyone and everything is part of the story.
About the Artist
Peta Riley
Mid West
2025–2026
Rockingham City Art Awards — Selected Finalist
BioSPHERE: Rewilding Your Imagination — Crop Circle Artist, directed by Fleur Schell
Cossack Art Awards
LightBox Gallery — Selected Artist, Public Art
Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
Wedge — Australian Ceramics Triennial
Clay Connections — Wedge, Fremantle Arts Centre
Home — Fleur Schell
Wedge Group Exhibition — Art Source, Old Customs House
Midwest Art Prize — Finalist
Trudi Golley Paper Plaster Workshop
Beth Cavener Workshop
Jury Art Prize — Finalist & Sculpture Category Winner
Ebony Russell Workshop
Online Professional Development — Anderson Ranch Arts Center, America
2024
Geraldton Open Studio Artist
Jury Art Prize — Selected Finalist
Carnarvon Shire — Commissioned Public Artworks, in progress
Cossack Art Award — Finalist & Category Winner, North West Flora & Fauna
Gascoyne Art Awards — Highly Commended, Gascoyne Landscape
Clay Gulgong International Ceramics Conference & Delegate Exhibition
Midwest Members Exhibition — Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
Pets of Summer — Public Artwork, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
Illustration and Design Consulting — Ash Sutton Design, Five Luxe Dubai Bar Paradiso
2023
Cervantes Art Awards — Shire of Dandaragan Purchase Prize, Cormorant
Geraldton Open Studio Artist
Carnarvon Art Awards — Runner Up, Eucheuma Spinosum, porcelain & copper
City of Geraldton — Commissioned Public Art Log Artwork
Midwest Art Prize — Finalist
LightBox Gallery — Selected Artist, Public Art
Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
Graphic Design for high-end bars in Dubai — Luxe Five Group
We Dream in Colour — Geraldton TAFE Lecturer Showcase, group exhibition
Ash Sutton Design — Project Design and Consulting
2022
We Dream in Colour — Geraldton TAFE Lecturer Showcase, group exhibition
City of Geraldton — Bus Shelter Artist x 2, public art
2021–current
Sea.StudioGallery — Ceramics studio and local art gallery
2018
Heartwalk — Kalgoorlie Mural Artist, Mulla Mulla Designs
2012
Morawa Art Award — Winner, Ceramics Award
Shopping Centre Geraldton — Mural Art Winner
2012–current
Pink Lake Road Australia — Designer & Maker
2011
Senior Territorian Portrait Award — Winner, NT Parliament House