HANGING ART JUDGE
BRADLEY HAMMOND

Bradley Hammond is Director of Orange Regional Gallery, having previously been the Curator of the Gallery’s Arts and Health strategy since 2011. Prior to that he was Education and Public Programs Officer at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery from 2007 to 2010.
 
He has curated numerous exhibitions for public galleries and written for exhibition catalogues and articles. He holds a Master of Visual Arts from Monash University and a degree in Fine Arts (Honours) from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
 
Bradley Hammond’s drawings, paintings and video pieces have been exhibited in Australia, Africa and Europe.

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PHOTOGRAPHY JUDGE
JUDE MORRELL

Jude Morrell has been a lover of photography since she received a camera as a child. Commencing a working life in photography as a teenager, she has worked in a variety of areas over the years including stills photography on films, working in various photographic studios, creating photographic book covers for publishers (UQP, Allen & Unwin) and providing photography for arts magazine Oz Arts and other publications. She has run an art gallery in Brisbane specialising in innovative contemporary art.

​Her love of art photography has led to her exhibiting in various exhibitions including Head On Photographic Festival, Australian Centre for Photography, Bondi Pavillion and Artspace. She has also curated exhibitions for others and is currently teaching photography full time at TAFE Western Dubbo campus.
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Currently a key passion is travelling and documenting those travels in both stills and video. 

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CERAMICS JUDGE
MILENA SALLUSTIO

Milena Sallustio is an artist, educator and curator of fine arts and ceramics. She teaches students of all levels at Western Institute of TAFE as well as Aboriginal community members from Dubbo. She has travelled to teach in North West NSW and given classes by satellite to people living in remote areas. Milena also mentors young people who wish to achieve excellence in art in its many forms.

Milena holds a BA Fine Arts degree from Charles Sturt University, a Ceramics Diploma from ANU Canberra School of Art, and a Fine Arts Adv Diploma from TAFE NSW, receiving a Highest Achievement in Fine Arts award from TAFE NSW in 2004.
 
Milena has travelled widely overseas to observe cultural aesthetics, most notably in Italy and Morocco. She has studied in Jingdezhen, China at ‘The Pottery Workshop’ residency with other ANU students. Dubbo Regional Council has purchased her work as gifts for Dubbo’s sister cities, Minokamo, Japan, and Wujiang, China. Milena regularly exhibits her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout NSW.  She was one of a group of four artists to receive a grant from Regional Arts NSW Ministry for the Arts for the exhibition ‘Imperfect Symmetry’, sponsored by Western Plains Cultural Centre.
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​Milena focuses on looking at how the individual can sustain the 'self' in a complex social environment. She explores these issues through symbolic imagery and objects.