Agus Wijaya, Alycia Bennett, Amala Groom, Angus Scott, Baby Guerrilla, Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse, Dani Reynolds, Eden Menta and Janelle Low, Edwina Green, Elyas Alavi, Isabella Hone-Saunders, Jack Lee, Kathy Holowko, Katie Stackhouse, Linda Studena, megan evans, Ming Liew, Mira Oosterweghel, Miream Salameh, Moreen Wellington Lyons, Nicholas Hubicki, Nina Sanadze, Olivia Koh, Patrick McDavitt, Phuong Ngo, Rebecca Jensen, Scotty So, and Xanthe Dobbie.

Opening night and award presentation will be held on Friday, 6 October, from 6pm.

In 2023, we will be offering a total of $12,000 in cash prizes to artists:

• Incinerator Art Award of $10,000, as judged by our panel of art industry professionals.
• Moonee Valley Mayoral Award of $1,000 judged by the Mayor of Moonee Valley City Council.
• People’s Choice Award of $1,000 as voted by gallery visitors.

Andrew Tetzlaff is the Senior Curator for RMIT Culture and a practicing artist. He has a history of working in exhibition development, tertiary education, international project development and grass-roots cultural organisations. Tetzlaff has lectured, presented and written critically on contemporary art and curation. From 2008-2017 Andrew served on the board of BLINDSIDE, an artist-run initiative located in the heart of Melbourne, and since 2020 he has served as the Vice President of the Public Galleries Association of Victoria board. He holds an MFA from RMIT University, where he is presently pursuing a PhD by practice.

Jessica Clark is a proud pallawah woman and a curator of contemporary art living and working on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm (Melbourne). She currently holds the position of Yalingwa Curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2022-24). Jessica has a background in art history and art education and has been working in varying independent and collaborative curatorial roles since 2017. She is currently undertaking a curatorial practice-led PhD at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne that is focussed on investigating intercultural curatorial models for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian art.

Nathan Beard is an artist who draws from his Australian-Thai heritage to unpack the ways identity is shaped by the porous and precarious influences of culture and memory. Beard’s work adapts intimate exchanges with family and archives alongside broader cultural signifiers of ‘Thainess’ to playfully demonstrate the complexities surrounding authenticity and diasporic identity. Recent exhibitions include A Puzzlement, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2022), Husk, Futures (2022), Low Yield Fruit, sweet pea (2022), White Gilt 2.0, Firstdraft (2020), A dense intimacy (with Lindy Lee), Bus Projects (2019) and WA Focus: Nathan Beard, Art Gallery of Western Australia (2017). In 2022 Beard completed an Australia Council residency at ACME Studios, London. He has been a finalist in the Ramsay Art Prize (2021) and the churchie emerging art prize (2020), and participated in the 4A Beijing Studio Program (2017). He is represented by sweet pea and Aster + Asha Gallery.

Winner of the Incinerator Art Award and $10,000, as judged by our panel of art industry professionals: Xanthe Dobbie for their artwork The Long Now.

Winner of the Moonee Valley Mayoral Award and $1,000, as judged by the Mayor of Moonee Valley City Council: Amala Groom for their artwork Found.

Winner of the People’s Choice Award and $1,000 as voted by gallery visitors: Linda Studena for their work Head of State.