New Life for Old Toys, Creativity and Sustainability at the 2025 Lithgow Waste 2 Art Exhibition.
On Friday evening Lithgow City Council proudly hosted the 2025 Waste 2 Art Awards Ceremony for our region at the Union Theatre Gallery, celebrating the creativity and ingenuity of the local community in transforming waste into art.
Waste 2 Art, an annual initiative led by regional waste group NetWaste, encourages residents to rethink rubbish by creating artworks from reused and recycled materials.
This year’s theme Year of Toys focused on the environmental impact of toys, inviting artists to reclaim and reimagine discarded playthings into new and exciting objects.
The 2025 Waste 2 Art Lithgow Award Winners are:
• Early Learning/Encouragement: Jack and Jill Preschool – Gugaa
• Primary School (3D): Zig Zag Public School – The Keepers Nest: Collected and Connected
• Community (2D): Art Club – Worlds of Our Own
• Community (3D): Sharon Lewis – Dinosaurs Didn’t Read
• Community Functional: Clare McAdam – All in the Jeans
• Open (2D): Fiona Bates, Beth Munro & Helen Munro – A Fun Day at Plastic Beach
• Open (3D): Chris Anderson – The Sentinel
• Open Functional: Michael Green – Tip Toys Merry Go Round
• Waste 2 Art Theme – Toys: Macgregor Ross – They Be Monsters That Wage War
• Waste 2 Art Concept: Fiona Russell – Buy. Break. Bin. Repeat.