Judges Commentary

Our amazing judges this year:
 

Pat Hall, Multi-award winning watercolourist, currently exhibited at Lethbridge Gallery, Watershed Gallery and Traffic Jam Galleries - Neutral Bay. Pat specialises with stretched paper canvases with bold paintings inspired by the textures, colours and dazzling sunlight of Australian gardens and bushland.
 

Dr Bill Platz, is an American-Australian artist, teacher and researcher with a disciplinary focus on drawing and research concentrations in life drawing, portraiture and pedagogies of drawing. Dr Platz is currently Head of Drawing at Queensland College of Art and Design (Griffith Uni). He previously served as Deputy Head of School (Director of Research and Postgrad), Program Director of Fine Art; Foundations Coordinator for Fine Art and Photography; and Higher Degree Research Convenor. His most recent solo show was the exhibition School of the Living and the Dead at Grafton Regional Gallery.

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​Annette Raff, Royal Queensland Art Society Judge, art practitioner and teacher for the past 27 years with 3 Artist-In-Residences..  Her latest work continues to evolve, reflecting a fusion of both recognizable and abstract imagery. Annette enjoys working with a variety of mixed media, including collage, monotype, drawing, and acrylic and oil painting. Annette's work has received numerous awards for her artwork in local, national and international art exhibitions.