The Mandorla Art Award bills itself as “Australia’s most significant thematic Christian art prize” with a focus on “contemporary religious art”.[1] Saint John of God Health Care, Australia’s largest chain of Catholic hospitals, sponsors the winning prize. This year’s winner, Claire Beausein, a resident of Western Australia, captured the $25,000 prize with a work of art titled Chalice made from “wild silkworm cocoons, stitched together with silk thread, museum insect pins on cotton rag paper”.[2] The theme this year was “metamorphosis”, with a nod to Isaiah 43:19: “I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do…