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2025 JUDGES

To be announced

To be announced

To be announced
PAST JUDGES
2024
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Jackie Dunn
Senior Curator of Exhibitions, AGNSW
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Ian Grant
Artist
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Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA
Emeritus Professor, ANU
2023

Tracy Cooper-Lavery
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Director, Gallery & Visual Arts at HOTA Home of the Arts
Gold Coast.

Adj.Professor Margo Ngawa Neale
Head: Centre for Indigenous Knowledges, Senior Indigenous Curator & Executive Advisor to the Director, National Museum of Australia, Canberra

Tony Costa
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2014 Paddington Art Prize Winner &
2019 Archibald Prize Winner
2023
2022

Blak Douglas
Artist

Dr Grant Stevens
Deputy Head School of (Art)
UNSW Art & Design Faculty.

Jane Devery
Senior Curator Exhibitions MCA
2022
2021

Katherine Roberts
Senior Curator at Manly Art Gallery & Museum

Tim Allen
Visual Artist and Winner of the 2017 Paddington Art Prize

Steven Alderton
Director and CEO of the National Art School
2021
2020

Ross Laurie
Visual Artist and Past Winner of the Paddington Art Prize

Rhonda Davis
Senior Curator at the Macquarie University Art Gallery

Jeanette Siebols
Visual Artist and Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts at the Australian Catholic University
2020
2019

Denise Mimmochi
Senior Curator, Australian Art, Art Gallery Of NSW

Oliver Watts
Head Curator, Artbank

Margaret Ellis
Art Scholar and Educator
2019
2018
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Tony Costa
2014 Paddington Art Prize Winner

Katrina Cashman
Author

Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
Artist
2018
2017

Edmund Capon AM OBE
Former Director Art Gallery NSW

Ann Thomson
Artist

Nick Vickers
Art Scholar and Educator
2017
2016

Craig Waddell
Artist

Wendy Sharpe
Artist

Wayne Tunnicliffe
Head Curator, Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW
2016
2015

Euan Macleod
Artist

Michael Nock
International Art Patron / Collector and Artist

Peter Sharp
Head of Drawing at UNSW Art and Design / Artist
2014

Lou Klepac OAM
Historian, Author, Curator & Publisher

Barry Pearce
Emeritus Curator, Art Gallery of NSW

Jane Watters
Director of S.H. Erwin Gallery
2013

Professor Ross Harley
Dean, College of Fine Arts UNSW

Del Kathryn Barton
Artist

John Firth Smith
Artist
2013
2014
2015
2012

Dr Janis Lander
Artist and Art Writer

John McDonald
Art Critic

Margaret Woodward
Artist
2011

Cressida Campbell
Artist

William Wright AM
Curator

Chris Antico
Artist
2010

Felicity Fenner
Chief Curator, NIEA & UNSW College of Fine Arts.

Brian Ladd
Former Head of Public Programs, Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Gavin Wilson
Independent Curator and Author.
2009

Professor Ian Howard
Dean of UNSW College of
Fine Arts.

Susan McCulloch
Co-Director of McCulloch & McCulloch Australian Art Books / Book Publisher & Art Writer.

David Cook
Deputy Director – Australian Paintings Department, Sotheby’s Australia.
2008

Nick Waterlow
Director, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, The University Of NSW

Geoff Cassidy
Director, Art Bank Sydney
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Kerrie Lester
Artist
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2007

Annette Larkin
Art Dealer and Valuer, Annette Larkin Fine Art

Adrian Newstead
Managing Director
Deutscher-Menzies

Reg Richardson
Patron of the Arts and Art Collector
2006
2007
2006

John Bloomfield
Head of Painting, National Art School, Sydney

John McDonald
Art Critic

Garry Shead
Artist
2005
2005

Deborah Edwards
Senior Curator – Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW

Tony Geddes
Cultural Services Manager – Gallery Director of
Mosman Gallery

Patrick Corrigan, AM
Art Collector and Patron of
the Arts
2004
2004

Jenny Sages
Artist

John Doyle
Broadcaster and Writer

Linda van Nunen
Journalist, Art Critic
and Author
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