We’re honoured and delighted to announce the expert judging panel for The Lester Prize 2020.
Dr Clarissa Ball is an art historian with particular interests in late nineteenth and twentieth century art and photography.
Clarissa is currently the Head of Department of Fine Arts and History of Art at the University of Western Australia and is also the Director of the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies.
She previously held the positions of Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Fine Arts at UWA and for many years was the Chief Examiner for TEE Art.
In 2019, Clarissa was appointed to the Board of the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Chris Malcolm has worked with some of the most influential contemporary artists
from around the world, curating and designing exhibitions over the last 25 years.
Moving from a career as a practising artist, represented in the collections of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the City of Fremantle, he commenced working with Curtin University’s Art Collection in 1989. He was involved in the development of the John Curtin Gallery which opened at Curtin University in 1998 as Australia’s largest University Art Museum and following a decade as it’s Curator and Curatorial Manager, has been Director since 2009. Malcolm has curated over 15 major international exhibitions for the Perth Festival and was a Founding Curator of BEAP the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth.
He has received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in 2002 and 2019 and has developed many exhibitions in collaboration with leading researchers across a range of disciplines from nanotechnology to radio astronomy. As Director, over the last decade he has overseen the convergence of the John Curtin Gallery’s collection development with its exhibition programming to focus on issues of diversity, equity and social justice.
Ian Strange is a New York-based, Western Australian artist who began his career as a graffiti artist before moving to New York and being mentored by legendary street artist Ron English. He is currently Guest Artistic Director at the Art Gallery of Australia.
Ian’s work sits in private and public collections including; the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Canterbury Museum, State Library Victoria, State Library of Queensland, NGA Research Library & Archives and the Asia Pacific Design Library.
Ian is best known for his ongoing series of suburban architectural interventions, film and photographic works subverting the archetypal domestic home. The work and exhibitions have been created in the USA (SUBURBAN, 2011-13), post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand (FINAL ACT, 2013), Western Australia and Victoria, Australia (SHADOW, 2015) (OPEN HOME, 2017), Katowice, Poland (ZŁOTY, 2016) and throughout Ohio’s rust-belt region, USA (ISLAND 2015-18).
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