Dulux Colour Awards 2025

Dulux Colour Awards 2025

Temporary or Installation Design Winner

This category recognises the best interior and/or exterior paint finishes of any temporary, installation, exhibition, and brand promotion experience.

Carol Jerrems: Portraits by Youssofzay Hart. Photograph: Hamish McIntosh.

Temporary or Installation Design Winner

Youssofzay Hart


Carol Jerrems: Portraits

What the judges said...

“Clear, simple and elegant, this exhibition of more than 140 gelatin silver photographs by Carol Jerrems at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, is distinct for its complex and layered visual links between artworks and the spaces they occupy. The display was conceived as a chromatic ribbon, inspired by the artist’s contact sheets, and harnesses the power of bold colour to offset the exhibited works, in a sublimely edited curation. Blue, powder-coated steel poles punctuate the space in a geometric pattern reminiscent of Mondrian, while a contrasting rust-orange hue saturates occasional display boards. The combination resulted from rigorous site testing and the viewer’s experience is distinct from each aperture. It illustrates the designer’s clarity of thought and understanding of the use of recessive and dominant colours."

Kim Bridgland, Edition Office, judge.

The winning palette

This strong palette was used to unify the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra and help guide visitors.

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Image credits

Lillie Thompson Sarah & Sebastian Armadale | Samuel Hartnett Lava Flow | Sean Fennessey Elonera House | Pier Carthew Dunstan | Peter Bennetts Northern Memorial Park Depot | Anson Smart Melbourne Place | Hamish McIntosh Carol Jerrems: Portraits | Angela Xu and Georgia Reader Landscape of Co-existence | Will Chomchoei Pātaka Kōrero / Fale o Tala, A Storehouse of Narratives in Samoa.

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