<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>340061</docID> <postdate>2025-03-10 21:30:56</postdate> <headline>Hadfield’s winning water painting earns her a splash of cash</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-340062" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/THE-SPLASH-OF-LIGHT-MHADFIELD-7700.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="600" /></p> <caption>Detail from Margaret Hadfield's winning painting The Splash of Light.</caption> <p><strong>Fyshwick artist Margaret Hadfield has carried off the $6000 SOHO Art Prize for 2025.</strong></p> <p>This year’s prize theme is Water, of which the Sydney gallery says, “the world’s largest island continent, it plays a dual role in sustaining life and driving our nation’s unique character.â€</p> <p>Fitting that theme perfectly, Hadfield’s winning work, The Splash of Light, in acrylic on canvas, was inspired in part by her Dutch seafaring ancestry and also by an art-teaching cruise around South America and Antarctica, which, she says, provided “the perfect combination for focusing on the magical light on the seaâ€.</p> <p>The SOHO Art Prize is non-acquisitive, which means a winning artist is free to sell their work – this one comes with a price tag of $7700.</p> <p>Best known as the inaugural winner of the Gallipoli Art Prize in 2006, Hadfield was also the founder of the Artists’ Shed in Fyshwick.</p> <p><em>​The finalists’ works will be on public display at SOHO galleries 150 Edgecliff Road, Woollahra, until March 22. </em></p> <p> </p> </body>