Meet the 2025
Tatiara Art Prize Judges
LEIGH ROBB​
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Leigh Robb is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of SA and has twenty-five years of experience working in the arts in Australia, the UK, and Italy. Her career spans roles at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Thomas Dane Gallery in London, and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in WA. Leigh has curated over fifty exhibitions including Radical Textiles (with Rebecca Evans); guest curator of the touring UNSW Galleries survey exhibition, James Tylor: Turrangka…in the shadows; as well as the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art; Versus Rodin: bodies across space and time and solo exhibition Chiharu Shiota: Absence Embodied at AGSA. With a reputation for commissioning significant contemporary projects and raising the profile of Australian artists, Leigh is interested in challenging curatorial models and creating transformative experiences for artists and audiences.
ASHLEIGH WHATLING​
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Ashleigh Whatling is the Director of the Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre in the City of Mount Gambier. Ashleigh started her career at Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia and has previously held the positions of Director at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery and Senior Curator of Visual Art and Design at Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery. She is passionate about the power of storytelling through regional arts and delivering strategic planning and development.
ALANAH ELLEN BRAND​
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Alanah Ellen Brand is a contemporary portrait painter working on Dja Dja Wurrung country (Bendigo, Victoria). Brand obtained her Masters in Visual Art (2019) from Latrobe University Bendigo. She has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize, Kennedy Prize, the 12th Prospect Portrait Prize, The Bluethumb Art Prize, the Tatiara Art Prize, The Percivals and a Semi-Finalist in The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. Brand has attended Art schools / workshops with renowned painters David Kassan, Shana Levenson, Robin Eley, Jessica Le Clec and Solomon Kammer who became Brand’s mentor and the subject of her 2023 Archibald Prize entry.
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