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), …
Myths and Stories
With the recent Lunar New Year and the Year of the Dragon celebrations, we began to consider the myths and stories we live by. In Korean culture, the Dragon is a deity presiding over water, ocean embodying the water or rain god. In our Indigenous Culture, the Rainbow Serpent represents one of the great and …
Eagle Rock
Mick Stovin is one of many talented artists entered into the 2023 Expo. His charcoal drawing, “Eagle Rock” 2023 (90cm x 110cm) will be available for purchase. Jason Saab & Haumole Olakau’atu embrace after a Manly Sea Eagles try. The passion and mateship formed through sport, ripples the highs and lows of elite sportsman and …