MAKE AWARD

MAKE Award: Biennial Prize for Innovation in Australian Craft and Design is a national award for Australian designer/makers.

2025 MAKE Award Winners Announced

The 2025 MAKE Award winner is Cinnamon Lee for her work NOCTUA. Second prize goes to Jake Rollins for SOFA1 and highly commended is Roseanne Bartley for A Poetry of Rings: The Mulga Alphabet.

The winner of the MAKE Award receives a cash prize of $35,000 with a second prize of $10,000, making it the richest non-acquisitive prize for craft and design in Australia.

The MAKE Award showcases designer/makers working across all related disciplines including ceramics, glass, furniture/woodwork, metalwork, textiles and fibre, and contemporary jewellery.

Finalists are designer/makers with a high level of skill either working with materials that are new to their practice, new or traditional materials, or working in new and innovative ways.

The MAKE Award is an initiative of the Australian Design Centre.