First Prize ($35,000)

Cinnamon Lee, NOCTUA

Artist Cinnamon Lee makes jewellery and lighting - NOCTUA is a hybrid object fusing light and jewels. Pairing the permanence of metal with the ephemerality of light, it is at once lamp, sculpture, jewellery and theatre. The brooch unit pays tribute to the unassuming Australian Bogong moth.

Second Prize ($10,000)

Jack Rollins, SOFA1

A furniture designer and maker based in South Australia, Jake Rollins made SOFA1 from 3744 golf balls and tensioned cord. It’s the latest expression of GolfWeave, a body of work using golf balls as beads and the principles of triaxial weaving to create human-scaled, functional objects.

Highly Commended

Roseanne Bartley, A Poetry of Rings: The Mulga Alphabet 

​Artist-jeweller Roseanne Bartley has worked in wood for the first time to create A Poetry of Rings: The Mulga Alphabet. Creating the hand-carved finger rings from Mulga (Acacia aneura), a material rich with cultural significance, has extended Roseanne’s technical and material practice.

Congratulations to Cinnamon Lee, Jake Rollins, Roseanne Bartley and all the MAKE Award finalists. The judges were deeply impressed by the level of craft and design excellence and innovation in the works.

​An exhibition of all 36 finalists' artworks is showing now at ADC. 
10 October - 19 November, 2025
Australian Design Centre, 101—115 William Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, Gadigal Land

Images:
Cinnamon Lee, Noctua, 2025 Photo: Courtesy the artist, Jake Rollins, SOFA1, 2025 Photo: Connor Patterson, Roseanne Bartley, A Poetry of Rings: The Mulga Alphabet, 2025 Photo: Ross Coulter, MAKE Award Opening 2025. Photos by Jacquie Manning.