THE JURY ART PRIZE 2024
Entering its fifth year, The Jury Art Prize is a unique platform for artists to tell their own stories of regional Western Australia to a broader audience across the country and globe. The Prize offers a diverse opportunity for viewers to connect and engage with the very best artworks from regional WA, providing artists with broad exposure and career acknowledgement. Utilising unique ways to connect audiences with these finalist’s artworks, geography knows no bounds with providing multiple accessible options for viewers to experience and participate in The Jury Art Prize.
The Junction Co. invites artists from regional Western Australia, working in diverse mediums such as painting, mixed media, sculpture, photography, and digital art, to submit their works for The Jury Art Prize 2024. Finalists will have the chance to showcase their creations online and at the Courthouse Gallery+Studio in Port Hedland from 18 May to 19 July, 2024. This prize spotlights the exceptional artistic talent in remote Western Australia, connecting audiences nationally and globally through innovative means.
2024 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
Alice Boardman
Allery Sandy
Amy Palmer
Anna Spencer
Bibianna Tumbler
Bobbi and Skye Lockyer
Carrie McDowell
Cassandra Bynder
Diane Pearson
Edith Green Napangardi Napaljari
Emma Crook
Gordon Barunga
Gracie Green
Jacqueline Craigs
Janeen Horne
Joanna Sosna
Jos Coufreur
Joseph Nuggett (Japarti)
Kahtleen Sorensen
Kaitlyn Elsegood
Katy McManus
Kelli Dawson
Kim Gillespie
Leah McManus
Leah Nanala
Lesley Meaney
Lori Pensini
Lorna Dawson
Lynley Nargoodah (Marlingia)
Marlene Anderson
Mary-Lynne Stratton
Matilda Oxtoby
Melissa Foster
Melissa Sandy
Michael MacRae
Naomie Hatherley
Patricia Hines
Paul Fontanini
Paulette Jadzinski
Peta Riley
Peter Moir
Pia Sweeting
Rani Fankha
RJB
Rodney Gregory
Roslyn Hamdorf
Ruth Buckley
Sara Walker
Sarah Green
Sharon Warrie
Simon Hemsley
Vikki Cook
William Upchurch
Zenith Gardiner
PRIZE CATEGORIES
$10,000 Prize Money
The Judges Prize is awarded to the most outstanding artwork by a contemporary artist living in regional WA. This prize acknowledges the artists exceptional work and is endorsed by arts industry professionals.
$10,000 Prize Money
The Jury Prize is the people’s choice award and will be awarded to the artwork that receives the most votes through the online voting platform on the Junction Co.’s website.
$3,000 Prize Money
The Patron Prize will be awarded to a Hedland resident, and will provide a fund to support the ongoing development of the winner’s art practices. This prize fund is sponsored by the Town of Port Hedland.
$3,000 Prize Money
The Kathy Donnelly Award is an encouragement award for an emerging WA regional artist. This award pays homeage to the late Kathy Donnelly, one of the founding members of the original Courthouse Gallery and Hedland Art Award.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
TERMS + CONDITIONS
Open to artists residing in regional Western Australia, with a diverse range of mediums such as painting, mixed media, sculpture, photography, and digital art.
PRIZE GUIDELINES
Here you will find all the information you need to know before submitting your entry, such as a brief, entry requirements, artwork shipping to and from Gallery and more.
ART PRIZE TIPS
View these ‘how to’ videos to learn more about photographing your artwork, art awards do’s and don’ts and an intro into art awards.
EXHIBITION TIMELINE
ENTRIES CLOSE
EXTENDED TO: 07 April 2024, 4pm (AWST)
(*was 04.04.2024)
INFO SESSIONS
01 March 2024, 6pm
27 March 2024, 6pm
(see below for access links)
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
09 April, 2024
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE
16 April, 2024
(to be completed by)
ARTWORK ON SITE
30 April, 2024
EXHIBITION OPENING
18 May 2024, 6pm – 10pm
(Courthouse Gallery+Studio, Port Hedland WA)
WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT
18 May, 2024
(at the exhibition opening)
THE JURY PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT
19 July, 2024
EXHIBITION CLOSES
19 July, 2024
ARTWORK DROP OFF LOCATIONS
Artwork for The Jury Art Prize needs to be on site in Port Hedland by 30 April, 2024. Drop off locations are:
- Kimberley Arts Network: 7 Orr St, Broome WA 6725
- Arts Margaret River Nala Bardip Mia – Margaret River HEART: 47 Wallcliffe Rd, PO Box 43, Margaret River WA 6285
- Courthouse Gallery+Studio, Port Hedland 16 Edgar St. 6721
- Regional Art Networ: Level 1, King Street Arts Centre 357 Murray Street, Perth WA 6000
Please see prize guidelines for full details, or contact the team at thejuryartprize@thejunctionco.com.au for more information.
MEET OUR ESTEEMED JUDGES
JUDE VAN DER MERWE
Jude van der Merwe has over 30 years’ experience in the visual arts and cultural sector and is an independent senior consultant and curator specialising in exhibition and cultural development, arts and culture policy and strategy and public art development and implementation.
Jude is a founding member and currently lead curator of the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial (IOTA24) and works closely with artists, artisans, galleries and organisations from Australia and Southeast Asia.
She is current Vice President of the World Crafts Council Asia Pacific Region, Board Member of the World Crafts Council Australia; member of the Advisory Board Curtin University for the School of Design and the Built Environment.
RON BRADFIELD JNR.
Ron Bradfield Jnr is a Bard, Jawi man of the saltwater peoples around Djarindjin, Western Australia. Born in Mooniemia (Northampton), he grew up in Jambinu (Geraldton), but now calls Walyalup (Fremantle) his home.
As the CYO of Yarns R Us, Ron supports artists, arts professionals, arts organisations and institutions across Australia and overseas and is currently the Community Engagement Facilitator, with the John Curtin Gallery at Curtin University.
As a storyteller and artist, Ron tells and makes stories that unpick his own personal experiences surviving our society and what it is to be ‘Australian’. As the eldest son of a Stolen Generations mother, Ron presents stories of himself as a child, as an adult and as an ex-serving member, of the Australian Defence Force.
Tapping into the physical memories of a time past through the use of familiar objects and Australian culture markers, Ron retells his stories, challenging today’s Australians about how they remember the places they grew up in and the experiences they had, well away from the reality of Aboriginal and Islander peoples.
(Image Credits: Ron Bradfield Jnr wearing his artwork In Plain Sight 2019. Photographer: Sue-Lyn Moyle, 2019.)
TOM MÙLLER
Tom Mùller is an established multi-disciplinary artist with an active international practice spanning the realms of site-responsive, temporal and permanent projects. His work has been included in major exhibitions and Institutions including The National at Carriageworks, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Adelaide Biennial, Biennale de la Chaux-de-Fonds, and the upcoming Northern Alps Triennale in Japan. He has been the recipient of multiple Australia Council grants, the inaugural winner of the Qantas Contemporary Art prize, a mid-career fellowship from the Department of Culture and the Arts. In 2009 won the Basel international residency program through the Christoph Merian Stiftung. He was mentored by the Russian-American conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov in New York, and studied Anthroposophy at Emerson College in London. He holds a BFA (first class honours) in Sculpture from Curtin University of Technology.
In parallel to his personal practice, Tom is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Fremantle Biennale.
In a number of senses Tom Mùller is a big picture artist. Globalisation, the environment, space and time all fascinate him. He seems to prefer vast data sets, expansive geographies, sweeping timeframes and sequences of history. And yet, at the same time, Mùller is attentive to fine detail, to the specificities of things local, to the poetry of small, momentary and fleeting things that resonate. In this big picture sense Mùller is interested in structures, processes and dynamics. He understands the universe as an infinitely complex network of endlessly interconnected systems. In the natural world these systems are manifest everywhere, from the minutest forms of matter through to the grand architecture of the cosmos. In the corresponding human realm these dynamics are expressed through information and communication technologies and other network infrastructures. An astute observer, subtle activist and deeply humane artist, Mùller posits far-reaching analytical links and associations between the seemingly distinct but invariably interconnected elements that together comprise the architecture of our world. His work is rich in ironic and sometimes humorous insights into how we grasp and assimilate knowledge and about the dazzlingly complex systems we inhabit. Even as we calculate the chances of eventual worldwide calamity, Mùller’s thought-provoking practice offers vantage points from which to imagine optimistically better futures. His diagrams and graphs create rhythms in the chaos and suggest the emergence of other worlds and alternate horizons.
ONLINE INFORMATION SESSIONS
AKS YOUR QUESTIONS IN REAL TIME
The Junction Co. will be hosting x2 online information sessions for any potential entering artists. Here you will hear first-hand from the Courthouse Gallery+Studio exhibition coordinator on how the Prize works and have a chance to ask any questions you still might have. If you cannot make the live information sessions but would like to find out more, please email thejuryartprize@thejunctionco.com.au.
ZOOM SESSION #1
01 March 2024, 6pm (AWST)
Join Zoom Meeting Here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82077794275
Meeting ID: 820 7779 4275
ZOOM SESSION #2
27 March 2024, 6pm (AWST)
Join Zoom Meeting Here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89298161342
Meeting ID: 892 9816 1342
WHERE WILL IT BE SEEN?
IN PERSON
Finalists works will be exhibited at the Courthouse Gallery+Studio from 18 May – 19 July, 2024.
ONLINE
The Jury Art Prize 2024 will be available for view via our Virtual Exhibition platform from 18 May, 2024, which will be accessible on The Junction Co. website.
A portfolio will also be available to view from the website.
YAGAN SQUARE DIGITAL TOWER
All finalists works and winner announcements will be streamed live to Yagan Square on the exhibition opening event 18 May, 2024. The finalists work will also be featured on the Yagan Square Digital Tower from May to July 2024.
MORE ABOUT THE PRIZE
4 YEARS OF THE JURY
View the past 4 years of The Jury Art Prize finalists, artworks and virtual exhibitions.