We are thrilled to present this year’s Pre-selection Panellists. This dynamic group of professionals will select the 40 Finalists for the 2021 Lester Prize to be exhibited at The Art Gallery of Western Australia from 16 October – 29 November 2021.
Jim has had a long and varied career mainly in the arts. Previously Director of Fremantle Arts Centre, Acting-CEO of PICA and Manager of the North Melbourne Town Hall Artshouse, he has also worked as venue manager, producer, programmer, artists’ manager and agent, as well as journalist and publicist.
He has long-standing commitment to the small to medium arts sector and is a former Chair of Art On The Move as well as Polyglot Theatre (Melb) and Kage Physical Theatre (Melb). He was also on the board of the WA Chamber of Arts and Culture.
Jim has a BA from Melbourne University and Advanced Diploma of Journalism from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Emilia Galatis is a curator, art consultant, creative producer, and arts development specialist with over 18 years’ experience working across urban and remote areas. She has lived in the Western Desert, Pilbara and Kimberley and was the arts and business manager for Warakurna Artists in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. After that, Emilia was the producer of Revealed 2016/ 2017 for FAC and the co-curator of Desert River Sea at AGWA in 2019. Emilia has received three international scholarships including a Churchill Fellowship undertaken in 2022, developing international creative business opportunities for WA artists.
Her clients are museums, peak bodies and Indigenous owned arts organisations, building pathways for artists to exhibit with maximum impact. She has founded and its the director of a textile business called Flash Minky and a commercial gallery concept: EG Projects, exhibiting WA artists nationally and internationally.
Born 1975, Basel, Switzerland. Lives and works Fremantle, Western Australia
Building on existing bodies of work exploring the themes of perception, and the invisible aspects of natural phenomena, through the use of temporary time-based installation connected with apparitions and mythological landscapes, Tom Mùller explores expansive geographies, sweeping timeframes and sequences of history. And yet, at the same time, he is attentive to fine detail, to the specificities of things local, to the poetry of small, momentary and fleeting things that resonate. Mùller is the co-founder and current Artistic Director of the Fremantle Biennale.
Helen Turner
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