2024 judges
Meet the Judges
The Judging panel for the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania is composed of experienced, skilled artists, art workers and members of the Tasmanian art community. They are responsible for judging the Acquisitive and Emerging Prizes.
We are delighted to introduce you to our judges for 2024.
Eddie james
Eddie James is an artist based in nipaluna/Hobart, lutruwita/Tasmania. Her practice delves into the relationship between human interaction and space. Employing cross-disciplinary approaches including analogue photography, installation and performance, she seeks to create a deeper awareness of our impact on the environments we shape and inhabit, fostering a dialogue on our individual and collective experience.
She has worked in the arts sector across the globe for almost 20 years as a Creative Producer, Touring Production Manager, Project Manager and Designer. (BIGhART, Umbilical Brothers, Circus Oz, Splendour in the Grass, Laneway Festival, MONA FOMA, Dark Mofo.)
She trained at Swinburne University, School of Theatre and Performance, NICA, and completed her BFA at the University of Tasmania in 2023. In 2020, she received the Cobra Award from Contemporary Art Tasmania for her work "Walk On" and was the winner of the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania in 2022.
jessie pangas
Jessie Pangas, an artist and cultural producer, fosters creativity and connection through studio and community-based projects and events.
Working in the Tasmanian arts industry for the past ten years Jessie has collaborated on impactful projects with organisations including Ten Days on the Island, Big hART, Urban Theatre Projects and The Song Room.
The 2021 Valedictorian of the Tasmanian Leaders program, Jessie is currently the Manager Arts and Culture for the Central Coast Council, overseeing their bold cultural precinct Hive.
LOUISE DANIELS
Born and raised in Ulverstone, lutruwita (Tasmania), Louise Daniels is a woman of palawa, British and Irish ancestry.. She is a multi-media artist whose practice includes landscape paintings, charcoal drawings, mixed media, and figurative wire sculpture.
Daniels has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions and been a selected finalist in many state and national art awards. Her works are held in private and government collections in both Australia and overseas, including the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Central Coast Council Tasmania, and the Tasmanian Department of Health.
Daniels holds a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts (Honours) Degree and a Master’s Degree in Education Studies from the University of Tasmania. She is also a published researcher, and many of her recent studies and artworks explore and re-present stories of her palawa ancestors who endured the brutal colonisation of lutruwita.
