JUDGES 2026
MICHAEL KEMPSON
Michael Kempson is an artist from Sydney, with teaching positions that have included: Head of Department - Printmaking, Meadowbank TAFE (1986-2003): Senior Lecturer, Convenor of Printmaking Studies, The University of New South Wales (2004-2023); and periods as a visiting professor at Beijing (2010,2025), Xi’an (2012), Tianjin (2016) and Shanghai (2017) Academies of Fine Art in China; and a resident artist at Alfred University, New York, USA (2017). He was a Vice-Dean of the International Academic Printmaking Alliance, formed in Beijing (2016-2022) and was the International Member at Large for the Southern Graphics Council International, USA (2014-2016). Michael has been showing consistently since 1983, with 34 solo and over 250 group exhibitions, and is represented in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and many Australian state and regional galleries.
ELIZA GOSSE
Eliza Gosse explores life through the lens of architecture – specifically the clean, simple lines of post-war and mid-century design. Drawn to forms produced decades before she herself was born, Gosse creates paired back images that are not so much a depiction as an evocation of an era or place, or the people who may once have lived there. Sleek, stylised, and given quirky titles snatched from pop culture, they’re enhanced by a muted colour palette that bathes each scene in nostalgia and encourages viewers to imagine what memories might be held within the walls.
Eliza Gosse lives and works in Sydney, Australia. She is an alumna of the National Art School, Sydney, graduating a Master of Fine Art in 2019. Her work has been exhibited in public and private galleries since 2016. Gosse’s work has been selected for numerous awards and prizes including the Archibald Prize (2023, 2022) and Wynne Prize (2025, 2020), Paddington Art Prize (2023, 2021) and won the Mosman Alan Gamble Award (2022) and the John Olsen Drawing Prize (2017). In 2024 she was awarded a Bundanon Trust Residency.
Gosse is currently practicing in Sydney and represented by Edwina Corlette Gallery (Brisbane) and Olsen Gallery (Sydney)
SCOTT DUNCAN
Scott Duncan is a dynamic ceramicist whose work is a pastiche of mid-century design and antiquity where the traditional forms of ceramic practice are reconstructed through his whimsical work. Creating his own chalks and pencils, there is an alchemy at play where low and high fuse together creating forms reminiscent of Italian Bitossi Ceramiche and Scheurich Pottery with ceramic food labels delicately sculpted by Duncan resembling faces adhered across the surface in pareidolian amusement.
A chef by trade, Duncan infuses these techniques into his art practice where clay is layered and moulded like shortcrust pastry, taking on forms resembling materials such as congregated cardboard, chewing gum and fruit, mischievously pulling apart the traditional notions of ceramics. Nostalgia plays a part with ceramic form taking on the sweet lollies of youth; musk sticks, bananas and toffees.
Duncan has been a feature artist at Sydney Contemporary (2022) and has previously had three major solo exhibitions as well as various group exhibitions in both New South Wales and Victoria. He is a twice finalist in STILL: The National Still Life Award (2019, 2017) and a finalist in the Fishers Ghost Art Award (2024). His work is part of the Artbank collection, and in 2022 Duncan completed a major commission for the opening of the ACE Hotel Sydney curated by Flack Studio.
