2025 judges

  • Caine Chennatt

    Caine Chennatt is a curator and cultural administrator bridging exhibitions, collections, galleries, museums, and art projects with all audiences through the lenses of cultural humility and cultural leadership. Caine is currently Director, Curatorial and Cultural Collections at the University of Tasmania.

    His curatorial projects explore themes of expanded ways of knowing, plural identities, and bridging perspectives. Current exhibition projects include Interfacial Intimacies (touring 2024 to 2026). Caine is an alumnus of Creative Australia’s International Curators Program, NIDA’s Master of Fine Arts in Cultural Leadership (Curatorial and Public Art focus), and the Churchill Fellowship program.

  • Naomi Hobson

    Naomi is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in painting, ceramics and photography. Naomi’s work is held in all of Australia’s major institutions and is collected nationally and internationally. In 2024 Naomi’s photographic book “Adolescent Wonderland” was accepted into the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection in London.

    Naomi has won numerous prizes and awards and has previously judged the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

    photo: Timothy Fryberg

  • Catherine Woo

    Catherine is a Tasmanian-based artist known for her visually stunning oeuvre of ‘painting with weather’. She has exhibited across Australia as well as internationally in the United Kingdom, Korea and Hong Kong. She has been included in various major curated shows in Australia, completed several public art commissions, and her work has been acquired by significant institutions in Australia and overseas.