2024
Madeline Kelly, 2024 Judge
Madeleine Kelly (b. Freising, Germany 1977) makes work that engages with human encounters with “nature” and elemental forces. Bringing together figuration and abstraction, her practice is a mixture of the cosmic and the material that explores the many, often ineffable, points of contact between people, animals and plants such that the material world is transformed …
Simon Wright, 2024 Judge
Simon Wright has held public engagement, exhibition, curatorial and executive management positions in private, public gallery and museum realms since 1993. As Assistant Director (Learning + Public Engagement) at QAGOMA, he currently has Executive oversight of a broad range of community-facing and audience-centric portfolio responsibilities, including: Public Engagement (The Children’s Art Centre, Public Programs, Member Services), …