Judges

Clare Rae is an artist and educator from Naarm / Melbourne. In her lens-based practice Clare explores gesture, space and architecture to examine structures of power and their impacts on the body. She has been making and exhibiting artwork in Australia and abroad for 20 years. Her work is held in public and private collections nationally, including Artbank, National Gallery of Victoria, Monash University, RMIT University. Clare is a founding member of LAST Collective.

Matt Shaw is a visual artist working across photography, video and casting. Guided by a documentary sensibility, his work centres on people: their identity, their stories, and the portals they open into other worlds. Scouting sidewalks and subcultures, Matt uses his camera to bring a cast of characters into a world of his own, one that is dreamy, playful and strangely tender.

Nur Aishah Abdullah Farid Kenton is a Singapore-born, Malay-Australian photographer, artist and educator whose practice is grounded in collaboration, participation and community engagement.