JUDGES 2025

AMBER CRESWELL BELL
Amber Creswell Bell is an art curator, an author of books on the arts, a lifestyle writer, a speaker, arts commentator and an enthusiastic creative hustler. In her time as a commercial Gallery Director, Amber is recognised for championing and educating emerging and unrepresented artists. In 2021 Amber established the National Emerging Art Prize (NEAP) in collaboration with gallerist Michael Reid.
Amber has published 6 best-selling art books with Thames & Hudson to date including Clay (2016), A Painted Landscape (2018), 'Ken Done Art. Design. Life’ (2021); Still Life (2021); Australian Abstract (2023), About Face (2024) - with a 7th due out in late 2025.

SEBASTIAN GOLDSPINK
Sebastian Goldspink is a curator based in Sydney with a practice focused on emerging and First Nations art.
In 2011 he founded the curatorial initiative ALASKA Projects to support exhibitions in disused locations. He has held professional appointments with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Month Sydney, and the National Art School.
He has served as the Director of Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf and the Hazelhurst Art Centre. He sits on the boards of Western Sydney University Creative and the Power Institute at Sydney University. In 2022 he curated the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia entitled Free/State. Goldspink regularly writes and hosts discussions about contemporary Australian art.