The judge for the 2023 Winter Exhibition was  Francis E. Parker. Francis joined MUMA as Curator – Exhibitions in 2011. He is an alumnus of Monash University, completing his Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Visual Culture in 2005. Francis previously worked at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, initially as Curatorial Assistant, Australian Art to 1970, then as Curator, Contemporary Australian Art. At MUMA, he has curated solo projects with Meijers + Walsh, Dylan Martorell and Kate Smith, and co-curated Artists' Proof #1 (2012), Richard Bell: Lessons on Etiquette and Manners and Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Century (2013). In 2015, he initiated Sound Spaces, an ongoing series of experimental music performances and, in 2016, curated the exhibition Borders, Barriers, Walls.

First prize WINNER

Joe Whyte, Old and New Brunswick, Oil, NFS

second prize WINNER

Linda Weil, Cypress on the Tioga Pass, Graphite & Coloured Pencil, $1400

third prize WINNER

Lynden Stone, Rebuttal of Unicorn Pseudodoxia, Oil on Canvas, $2000

SCULPTURE WINNER

Ellen Jenkins, Simon, $800

HIGHLY COMMENDED ARTISTS

It Hao Pheh, 6th Day—Visitor Centre, Bendigo, Charcoal, $2400

TJ Murphy, Bulbous Proboscis, Oil, $750

Gregory R Smith, Stacked Bowls, Oil on Canvas, SOLD

Mary Hyde, Moorings, Oil, $2800

Samira Khadivizand, Apple Thief, Acrylic, $3420

Paul Laspagis, The Forest, Oil, $4000

curator's choice award

Sarah Ackland, Moreton Bay Fig, Graphite on Paper, $1800

See past winners here.

Banner Image: Old and New Brunswick by Joe Whyte, First Prize 2023