Art Prize

Art Prize team

• Sandra Murray

  The City is pleased to appoint Sandra Murray as the City of Rockingham Art Prize Curator for 2025.

  Sandra is a leading independent curator, arts consultant and artist mentor. She has a depth of experience in working with artists, collections, and exhibitions, including directing and curating for art and museum institutions in WA and NSW, and has worked in the public, corporate, not-for-profit, and private sectors. She was the inaugural curator for the University of Western Australia’s Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in Perth where she managed a collection of over 3,000 artworks of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture.

  Sandra has worked in the public, corporate, not-for-profit, and private sectors and manages the Bankwest Art Collection. She is the Artistic Director/Lead Curator for Sculpture at Bathers in Fremantle and has project managed and curated over 65 exhibitions. She has a passion for contemporary Australian art and holds a BA Honours in Art History and Theory, and a Master of Philosophy.

  Sandra is acknowledged as a passionate and proficient arts expert, an on-the-ground curator engaged in the art world, with a strong rapport with artists and respectful working relationships with arts industry professionals.

• Following the close of entries, the independent selection panel will meet to select finalists from the submitted artworks. 

  Kieron Broadhurst

  Kieron Broadhurst is an interdisciplinary artist based in Boorloo (Perth), WA. Through a variety of media he explores the speculative potential of fiction within contemporary art practice. He has exhibited within WA and interstate, including exhibitions at John Curtin Gallery (WA), Firstdraft (NSW), and FELTspace (SA). He was a finalist in the 2021 Joondalup Invitation Art Prize and one of six artists in the acclaimed exhibition Rock Pool created at Old Customs House, Fremantle in 2023. Kieron holds a BA (Art) First Class Honours, Curtin University, and in 2020 was awarded a PhD from Curtin University, where he works as a tutor and academic.

  Pamela Gaunt

  Pamela Gaunt is a professional artist with a long-standing practice that connects to architecture, design or liminal spaces of these and other discipline areas. She exhibits work in Australia and internationally. Pamela is a former Senior Lecturer in Art & Director International, School of Design & Art, Curtin University. She holds a Masters by Research in Art History/Theory from The College of Fine Art (COFA), UNSW and has received several significant grants, including an Australia Council Studio Residency, Milan in 1997 and a 2001 ArtsWA Fellowship. She has worked in various capacities for Culture and the Arts, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.

  Zali Morgan

  Zali Morgan is a Whadjuk, Ballardong & Wilman Noongar woman currently based in Boorloo. Zali has a deep passion for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and artists, particularly Noongar art and artists. She has worked closely with private and institutional collections, with a keen interest in decolonising practices. Zali is an emerging artist whose practice spans curating, writing, printmaking and sculpture. She holds a BA of Creative Arts (Fine Art) from Curtin University and was a participant in the 2022 Indigenous Arts Leadership Program at the National Gallery Australia. In 2023 Zali won the City of South Perth’s 2023 Emerging Artist Open Award.

• The independent judges will select the winning artworks for each prize category.

  Tarryn Gill

  Tarryn Gill is a Boorloo / Perth, WA based multidisciplinary artist who works across sculpture, photography, video, drawing, theatre design and performance. Through her solo and collaborative practices, she has exhibited works and undertaken residency projects across Australia and internationally, including in Argentina, Canada, France, the USA and Japan.

  Tarryn seeks to create work that explores psychoanalytic ideas, bridging the conscious and unconscious, the personal and collective, the contemporary and ancient. Her theatrical aesthetics, materials and processes are informed by her 20 year background in dance and competitive calisthenics. She draws on these influences to assert the value of the feminine, the personal & the intuitive.

  Jessyca Hutchens 

  Dr Jessyca Hutchens is a Palyku woman living and working on Noongar boodja. She is a Lecturer at the School of Indigenous Studies and Co-Director at the Berndt Museum, at the University of Western Australia. This museum holds one of the most significant collections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural material in the world.

  Hutchens is an art historian, curator, and writer who has held positions as Curator at the Berndt Museum, Curatorial Fellow at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia, Curatorial Assistant to the Artistic Director for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, and Lecturer in Global Art History at the University of Birmingham.

  Trevor Richards 

  Trevor Richards is an established artist who lives and works in Fremantle (Walyalup), Western Australia.  His artworks are held in local, national and international collections. His hard-edge abstract paintings and three-dimensional wall mounted works explore bold colour, geometric shape and pattern. He is widely recognised for his formally structured, minimalist approach to painting that is informed by his sustained engagement with a limited range of colours and an admiration for the commonplace.

  Art On The Move toured “Trevor Richards Roll The Tape” a 20 year review of his practice, through regional centres in WA during, culminating in a major solo exhibition at Holmes A Court Gallery, Perth in 2023