Wynne Prize 2016 – Finalist – ‘New Dawn over Bulga’

Salon des Refusés 2015 – Self Portrait

Doug Moran Portrait Prize 2015 – Semi Finalist – ‘Frances Keevil with Red Coat’

NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize 2013 – Highly Commended – ‘Raglan St, Manly (Looking West)’

Gallipoli Art Prize 2011 – First Prize – ‘Sacrifice’

Inspired by a 1930’s work by sculpture Rayner Hoff whose work of the same name, Sacrifice, is at the Anzac War Memorial in Sydney’s Hyde Park. Wilson described his winning painting as “a meditation on war which combines the purposefulness of the military machine – represented by the grid like patterns of World War One trenches taken from aerial photographs – with a montage of the more chaotic and subjective dimension of sacrifice”. He said the sacrifice element showing sections of the human body were a reminder that all soldiers laid their bodies on the line in war

Salon des Refusés 2011 – ‘Tim Entwisle and proclamation’

NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize 2011 – Highly Commended – ‘Wet day – Manly’

Gallipoli Art Prize 2009 – Highly Commended – ‘The Trail of the Lonesome Pine’

Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2008 – People’s Choice – ‘The place where you Live’

“The drawing entitled ‘The place where you Live’, refers to the theme of the built environment and tries to draw a parallel between ourselves and other life forms, (in this case, birds) in respect to the similar ways we construct our habitats. The work makes a pointed reference to the ‘nest-building’ habit we share with all life forms and a reminder of the ultimate fragility and impermanence of these constructions. It hopefully represents a gentle reminder of the need for environmental perspective and humility.” Pencil/charcoal on card 112 x 96 cm

Gallipoli Art Prize 2007 – Highly Commended – ‘Dardenelles, Place and Memory’

Purchased through the Theo Batten Bequest and Manly Art Gallery & Museum

Art on Paper: Hazelhurst Art Award 2007 – People’s Choice – ‘Fish of the Talbragar’

Art on The Rocks Prize 2006 – First Prize – ‘Incident in Harris Street’

Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority

Pokolbin Drawing Prize 2005 – First Prize – ‘Interior 11’

The Frank Saxby Bequest Intivation Art Acquisitions Prize 2004 – First Prize – ‘Acteraceae and an empty chair’

Acquired by the Manning Regional Art Gallery

Sulman Prize 1999 – Finalist – ‘There to here – The Rocks (a narrative history)’

‘The Lucinda Project’ – Centenary of Federation sculpture, Mosman Council 2001

Sculpture Symposium, South Sydney Council 1998 – First Prize – ‘Sea of Bags’

In line with the aims of the festival theme, ‘Ocean of Colours’, this sculpture achieved a number of things – by using normally discarded shopping bags rigged up as ‘wind socks’, these multi-coloured. symbols of consumerism filled and billowed according to the vagaries of the local wind conditions and so resembled a moving ‘Ocean of Colours’. The bags themselves were collected from various shops and supermarkets in the area relfecting the consumer, ethnic and social layering of the community. The bags are symbolic of the millions of such items buried in the land-fill, in the 1970s – a sort of representative resurrection commemorating our disregard for anonymous consumer servicables.

Wynne Prize 1996 – Finalist – ‘Capricornicopia’

Redlands Westpac Art Prize 1996 – Highly Commended – ‘Meganesian Farewell’

Archibald Prize 1990 – Finalist – ‘Portrait of Paul Delprat’

(Collaborative project with students from the Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney)

Qantas Amnesty International Figurative Art Award 1990 – First Prize – ‘Fighting Ideologies’

Mosman Art Prize 1988 – First Prize – ‘The Departure of Mary Bryant’

“is a fine example of allegory and narrative in Hadyn Wilson’s works. Mary Bryant was a First Fleet convict arriving in Australia in 1788. With her husband William, her children and a seven-man crew, the Bryants famously stole one of the governor’s boats and sailed a treacherous journey of 5,000 miles to Dutch-occupied Timor. This extraordinary voyage became part of seafaring history. On their arrival in Timor, the Bryants were sent back to England and Mary Bryant was imprisoned at Newgate prison, receiving a pardon in 1793”. ‘Controversy & Acclaim. Sixty years of the Mosman Art Prize’

Sulman Prize 1988 – Finalist – ‘Ritual Bearings’

Sulman Prize 1987 – Finalist – ‘The New Humanity – A Shared Cup of Billy Tea’

Archibald Prize 1983 – Finalist – ‘Portrait of Jack Torzillo’

Sydney Morning Herald Travelling Art Scholarship 1983 – First Prize – ‘Untitled’

Image: ‘Advocate’, March 1983