Jul 31, 2026 – 5.00pmThe hundreds of burnt-out cars in the dump outside Robert Fielding’s home community of Mimili in the APY Lands might be an eyesore to some, but they inspired the artist to win Australia’s richest landscape painting prize.Fielding’s dot painting of some of the stacked-up wrecks, simply titled Landscape, was announced winner of the $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize on Friday afternoon.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
‘They are landscape’: Car dump inspires $100k art prize win
Where some in the APY Lands see a stack of rusting wrecks, this artist sees a sacred site. The vision has won him Australia’s richest landscape prize.
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