Judging Panel

Judges

The judging panel for the 2009 Award:

John Denton

John Denton a Director of Denton Corker Marshall Pty Ltd, one of the most significant and successful Australian owned international architecture and design practices with offices in Melbourne, London and Jakarta.  The practice is noted for projects such as the Melbourne Museum, Anzac Hall at the Australian War Memorial Canberra, Webb Bridge Melbourne and the recently completed Civil Justice Centre in Manchester UK.  John Denton is currently Director in Charge of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research project, as well as directing a range of masterplanning and architectural projects in China.  Acclaimed internationally for the calibre of its architecture, the practice has been published widely including two monographs by Birkhauser Verlag Switzerland.

He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and in 1996 received the RAIA Gold Medal.  He is also a Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia.  In 2006 John Denton accepted a part-time role as the Victorian Government Architect to advise the Premier and Cabinet on achieving better architecture and urban design outcomes for Government, a role he handed on in June 2008.  In 2007 he received a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from Monash University.

Alexie Glass

Alexie Glass, Director of Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, has worked for ten years as a curator, critic and arts administrator. Prior to Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Alexie worked in Exhibitions at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) where she was curator of the Screen Gallery for the ACMI and National Gallery of Victoria exhibition 2004: Australian Culture Now, and co-curator with Alessio Cavallaro of World Without End (2005). Other exhibition projects include I thought I knew but I was wrong: New Video from Australia, co-curated with Sarah Tutton of Asialink, which toured the Asia-Pacific region (2004-2005), and guest curator of Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces’ exhibition, Octopus 4: More Real Than Life (2003). Before moving to Melbourne in 1992, Alexie was based in Sydney where she worked in a managerial and educational role for commercial galleries and institutions including Gitte Weise Gallery, the NSW Government Architects Office, Artspace and the Museum of Contemporary Art.

As a writer Alexie has contributed to a variety of publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, Art & Australia, Art Monthly Australia, RES, Broadsheet, Mesh, Australian Art Collector, Photofile and Monument, and her monograph Lisa Roet: Uncommon Observations, the third book in the New Art Series, was recently published by Thames & Hudson Publishers UK. In 2005 Alexie was the inaugural Asialink Arts Management curator-in-residence at Ssamzie Space in Seoul, South Korea.

Zara Stanhope

Past Deputy Director, Senior Curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.