2024 Judges Announced
Mandorla is thrilled to announce our three esteemed judges for the 2024 Mandorla Art Award. Spanning significant experience across art and theology, we know that our judges will expertly shape the next award with the quality and diversity of selected finalists and winners.
Hannah Mathews, Director of Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Hannah will be bringing significant experience in contemporary fine arts to both the selection and judging panel. Over the last twenty years, she has held key curatorial positions at Monash University Museum of Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Next Wave, The South Project and the Biennale of Sydney. Hannah graduated with a Master of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne in 2002 and has completed curatorial residencies in New York, Berlin, Tokyo and Venice. She has taught in curatorial programs at Melbourne University, Monash University and RMIT University, Melbourne and has held various board positions, including National Association for the Visual Arts.
Revd Dr Rarwynne Whiteley
Raewynne is currently the Warden of Wollaston Theological College, WA. She was appointed to this role in 2022, after four years in the Diocese of Southwark in England, first as the Discipleship and Vocations Minister and then as Deputy Director of Discipleship and Lay Ministry. She holds a PhD in Pastoral Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary in the United States and a joint degree in Theology and Ministry from the Australian College of Theology. Her written works in prose, poetry, song, and prayer have been extensively published, including in her celebrated book Steeped in the Holy (2007).
Richard Lewer, nationally acclaimed visual artist
Richard lives in Naarm Melbourne and works across painting, drawing, installation and animation. His practice investigates contemporary social realism and experiments with notions of the artist’s role as a commentator or interpreter, often investigating difficult or taboo subject matter. His projects have explored war, crime, religion, mental illness, fly-in-fly-out culture, Frontier Wars, euthanasia, Aboriginal deaths in custody and sporting failure. Richard has exhibited extensively across Australia and New Zealand and his work is held in major collections, including at the National Gallery of Australia, Auckland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria. His paintings have been selected as finalist works in the Archibald Prize four times and he has been awarded the Basil Sellers Art Prize and Blake Art Prize.
Several years ago, Richard spent an extended spell living in WA, with a studio at Fremantle Arts Centre. We look forward to welcoming him back to Boorloo and know he will make an excellent panellist for the Mandorla entry selections and judging.
