2026 Kennedy Prize Catalogue

33 | Tulips In October | Jennifer Allnutt | $3500 | Oils on Aluminium Composite Panel

These fiery tulips are life itself: it’s vibrancy, it’s beauty and the evanescence of nature. They are surrounded by shifting shadows, dancing in the folds of fabric and captured in a glass sarcophagus. I have a desperate feeling of wanting time to stop racing. To hold onto beauty forever. This work is about the futility of that feeling.