The selection panel and judge for The Bayton Award 2023 are visual arts experts living outside of Central Queensland and independent of Rockhampton Regional Council.
Rockhampton Museum of Art is pleased to announce Hamish Sawyer as the guest judge for The Bayton Award 2023.
Image: Hamish Sawyer. Photo: Sam Cranstoun
Hamish Sawyer is a curator, writer and currently the Acting Director of NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns. Recent curatorial projects include ‘Sandra Selig: Exploring Giant Molecules’, at the University of Sunshine Coast Art Gallery and University of New South Wales Galleries, and ‘After Fairweather’ at the Caboolture Regional Art Gallery; both in 2022. From 2016 to 2019, Sawyer was Curator at the Caloundra Regional Gallery, Sunshine Coast, where he organised exhibitions by Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan, Natalya Hughes, Laith McGregor and Elizabeth Willing. Sawyer has previously worked at the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, serving as a co-curator for the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) in 2015. He has also held positions at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) and Arts Queensland, as well as working for several commercial galleries. Sawyer has written for publications including Art Monthly Australasia, Sunnie, in addition to monographs on artists Michael Cook, Laith McGregor, Sandra Selig and Marian Tubbs.
Shortlisting for The Bayton Award 2023 Finalist Exhibition will be decided by our selection panel:
Freja Carmichael, Quandamooka woman and independent curator in Meanjin/Brisbane
Stephen Bird, artist and Lecturer at Byron School of Art