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2023
JUDGES
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
PAST
JUDGES
2022
Blak Douglas
Artist
Dr Grant Stevens
Deputy Head School of (Art)
UNSW Art & Design Faculty.
Jane Devery
Senior Curator Exhibitions MCA
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
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
2019
Denise Mimmochi
Senior Curator, Australian Art, Art Gallery Of NSW
Oliver Watts
Head Curator, Artbank
Margaret Ellis
Art Scholar and Educator
2018
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Tony Costa
2014 Paddington Art Prize Winner
Katrina Cashman
Author
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
Artist
2017
Edmund Capon AM OBE
Former Director Art Gallery NSW
Ann Thomson
Artist
Nick Vickers
Art Scholar and Educator
2016
Craig Waddell
Artist
Wendy Sharpe
Artist
Wayne Tunnicliffe
Head Curator, Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW
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
2012
Dr Janis Lander
Artist and Art Writer
John McDonald
Art Critic
Margaret Woodward
Artist
Cressida Campbell
Artist
William Wright
AM
Chris Antico
Artist
Gavin Wilson
to judge Artist Retreat Prize
2011
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
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
John Bloomfield
Head of Painting, National Art School, Sydney
John McDonald
Art Critic
Garry Shead
Artist
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
Barry Pearce
Head Curator, Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW
Jenny Sages
Artist
John Doyle
Broadcaster and Writer
Linda van Nunen
Journalist, Art Critic
and Author
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