Better Homes & Gardens Australia (BHG) is back with its Creator Awards for 2026, continuing its celebration of Australian makers, growers and creators reshaping how audiences engage with food, gardening, art, design, craft and sustainable living.
What are the Better Homes and Gardens Creator Awards?
Now in its second year, the BHG Creator Awards recognise individuals building passionate communities through practical creativity. The awards celebrate grassroots creators and community builders across six categories: Art & Design, Craft & DIY, Garden & Environment, Food, Sustainability, and for the first time, People’s Choice – where the public has nominated an Australian-based creator making something meaningful, having a genuine impact, inspiring others and strengthening Australia’s creative community (and can vote for the winner, see below).
The Creator Awards build on the long-standing influence of the BHG brand, which for more than four decades has inspired Australians to cook, grow and make. Today, that inspiration increasingly extends beyond editorial content into the communities formed around shared skills, creativity and everyday practical knowledge.
“The Creator Awards exist because the maker community is such a big part of the Better Homes & Gardens brand. Our readers don’t just consume inspiration, 96% of them act on it,” said Megan Osborne, Editor, Better Homes & Gardens Australia.
“They build on ideas, share them, and increasingly they’re the ones creating and bringing them into the fabric of how we live. The Creator Awards are about recognising those people and the communities they’ve built around practical creativity.”
Who are the 2026 Creator Awards finalists?
Craft and DIY
DIY dynamo
Sophie Gurney
Luke Moore
Brooke Styles
Jaharn Quinn
Knit, crochet or textile crafter
Brendan Girak
Katelyn Leonardo
Kitaya Palaskas
Renovation mover & shaker
Max Bidstrup
Jordan Bruno & Dane Yull
Josh & Jenna Densten
Mete Erdogan & Georgia Frances King
Art & Design
Interior designer or stylist
Product or furniture designer
Bea Bellingham
Dustin Fritsche
Jinsu Jun
Skye Nilsson
Leisa Wharington
Sculpture or textile artist
Rachel Burke
Grant Flather
Hattie Molloy
Meredith Woolnough
Visual artist
Rachel Castle
Jacklyn Foster
Jonathan W Gemmell
John Pastoriza-Pinol
Dee Smart
Christopher Zanko
Garden
Garden guru
Cass Dowding
Eliza Henry-Jones & Melanie Kerchaval
Natasha Morgan
Justin O’Brien
Stephen Vella
Landscape designer
Clea Cregan
Christine Dodd
Kath Gadd
Food
Chef or food innovator
Michelle Powell
Toby Wilson
Home cook
Melanie Lionello
Elizabeth Hewson
Maddie and Nonna Fina
Recipe developer
Nicole Maguire
Liz Miu
Lucy Rosenberg
Gabriella Simonian
Tom Smallwood
Environment and sustainability
Connie Cao
Ingrid Devlin
Maggie T Kera
Lachlan Moore
Eliza The Veggie Scientist
Sustainability champion
Sarah Aubrey
Lottie Dalziel
Mel Logozzo
Wildlife guardian or animal educator
Ben Dessen
Jannico Elk
Emma Teni
Nick Volpe
Dr Katrina Warren
Dr Tegan Andel
People’s Choice
Voting for the People’s Choice Award category is open until 9 April.
Ana Araujo, ceramicist
Anna-Carien Goosen, artist
Brandi Salmon, artist
Emily Christos, home cook
Emma Higgins, renovation
Emma Morris, co-founder The Makers and Shakers market
Georgina Beaumont, Luxe & Beau homewares store
Holly Clinton, Foke fashion store
Ismat Awan, food consultant and stylist
Jan Gettmann, gardening educator
Maku Fenaroli of Maku The Label fashion
Michelle Kistima-Menser of You Are Brave textiles
Misha Harrison, artist
Sophie Kovic, Seed and Sprout sustainability store
How and when will winners be confirmed?
Judging for the 2026 Creator Awards will be led by Better Homes & Gardens Editor Megan Osborne, 2025 award winner Geneva Vanderzeil, and the broader BHG editorial team. Winners will be announced at an event alongside a panel hosted by Megan Osborne, with guests Juliet Love, Geneva Vanderzeil and Jono Fleming. The event will be held at the State Library of NSW in Sydney, 2nd May, with tickets available soon.
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