This painting was a finalist in the John Leslise Art Prize along with a companion painting, New Life, South Gippsland, the first time in the history of the prize that an artist was represented by two entries. Stranded attests “to the evocative power of natural disaster. Much more than empirical observations from nature, Green stirs her eerie images with an elegiac disquiet by bringing her imaginative faculties into play.”

(John Leslie Art Prize catalogue, 2014)