As one of the three richest art prizes in South Australia, the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize has grown in stature since its first iteration in 2014.
As part of our preparations for the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, we are honoured to have reached agreement with five highly talented and qualified judges, who will form our judging panel.
Loene Furler
Loene Furler has been a practising and exhibiting artist for decades whilst lecturing at ACARTS, NASA and other art schools. Loene was previously a Ministerial Adviser to the Minister for Arts and CEO of Jamfactory, Chair of Experimental Art Foundation, Deputy Chair of National Association for the Visual Arts and member of Craft Australia Board amongst others. Music is also important to Loene and she played in a band for over ten years.
Jane MacFarlane
Jane MacFarlane has been the CEO of the Helpmann Academy since 2015, an organisation that supports and empowers South Australia’s most promising emerging creatives to forge successful and sustainable careers.
Khai Liew
Khai Liew is widely recognised for his dedicated contribution to the development of the Australian design landscape. In 2010 he was awarded the South Australian of the Year Arts Award by the Government of South Australia and in 2016 he was inducted into the Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame. In 2017, he received the Design Institute of Australia’s “Design Icon” Award, and in 2018, Liew was recognised as a Design Luminary at the INDE awards in Singapore.
Leigh Robb
Leigh Robb is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia. With twenty years of experience in the arts, Robb’s previous roles include Curator at PICA – Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Associate Director at Thomas Dane Gallery, London, and Head of Internship Program at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Psychology at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, and her Masters in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Angela Valamanesh
Angela Valamanesh is an independent visual artist based in Adelaide. Her art works are included in private and public collections including Art Gallery of South Australia and National Gallery of Australia. Her Jam Factory Icon exhibition of 2019 is currently touring Australian regional galleries. She is represented by GAGPROJECTS Adelaide and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert Sydney.
Adelaide is the Festival City, with a world-renowned reputation for an Arts Festival over more than 60 years. This City is also famed for your world-unique Park Lands. An Art Prize focussing attention on your Park Lands, therefore, capitalises on and promotes both of this city’s strengths. It helps to showcase and raise awareness, through the works of hundreds of artists, the irreplaceable jewels of Park Lands that garland this unique city.
Entries for the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize will open on 15 August 2022.
The judges’ work will commence at the end of January 2023 when they will evaluate all entries received, and select approximately 75 as finalists for exhibition in the Adelaide Festival Centre, from 24 March 2023.
The second round of judging will be held in mid-to-late March, just before the exhibition opening, when the judges will determine the prize winners – allocating a prize pool of $50,000, including a first prize of $20,000.
