Pre-Selection and Judging Procedures

Pre-Selection Panel

  • Each year the Organisers will appoint a Pre-Selection panel to review entries.

  • The Panel will initially review and assess all submissions received, and will decide which works will be invited to exhibit at the Art Show.

  • The Show Judge(s) may or may not be part of the Pre-Selection Pane panel.

  • All decisions on acceptances are final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.

  • Artists will be notified which of their works have been accepted to be exhibited, prior to the opening of the Show.

Show Judging

  • Each year the Organisers appoint an external Art Show Judge(s) for the Show

  • Judging takes place after the Art Show installation is complete

  • All decisions on Prizes and Awards are final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.


Suzette Wearne - Judge

We are delighted that Suzette Wearne will judge the 2024 Frankston Art Show

Photograph by Natalie Tuck

Suzette Wearne is the Assistant Curator at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery. Previously, she was a curator at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne where she curated several exhibitions of the work of leading Australian and international artists. Suzette has been contributing to the arts community for over twenty years, with experience in the management of art studios, in the commercial sector and in major public museums and galleries including the Melbourne Museum and the National Gallery of Victoria. She has published widely on contemporary art and culture, and coordinated and judged major art prizes and awards.

Photograph by Natalie Tuck


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