The winner of the 2026 Peter Musson Memorial Prize was Innes Thistleton. Seventeen year old Innes comes from the Mornington Peninsula and currently studies with Ben Hoadley at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School. Innes has also been accepted into Ole Kristan Dahl's Masterclass in Ljunlijana this year. Competition adjudicators were Paul Williams and Johannes Grosso. Congratulations to Innes!