Meet the 2026 Judges
Aimee Frodsham
Chief Executive Officer + Artistic Director
Canberra Glassworks
Aimee has been the Artistic Director at Canberra Glassworks since 2018. Supported by the dedicated Glassworks team, she oversees the exhibitions, artist residencies, studio access, education, community engagement and commissioning areas, working closely with a team of independent skilled glass makers. Frodsham is a curator, producer and project manager with an expertise in glass making and contemporary Australia art, craft and design. After graduating from ANU Canberra School of Art in the late 90’s, she moved to London and began working at the V&A Museum and then at Tate in the role of Collection Planning Manager, a job that spanned all four of Tate’s galleries. Since returning to Australia in 2015, she has embedded herself in the glass making community at Canberra Glassworks.
Lee-Anne Hall
Curatorial Director
JamFactory
Dr Lee-Anne Hall is a respected leader who has worked for more than three decades in the arts and tertiary education sectors. She has spent the past five years as Director of the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery – home to the National Art Glass Gallery, where she instigated innovative and successful new approaches to exhibition programming, audience engagement and local artist development. Prior to this Hall was Director of the Penrith Regional Gallery, Western Sydney’s premier public art gallery, where she oversaw several award winning projects and grew the annual audience from 38,000 to over 100,000 over six years.
Dr Hall is also an accomplished academic with a PhD from the Australian National University, Centre for Cross Cultural Research and has lectured in Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of Sydney and in Arts Management at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Tami Landis
Curator of Post-War and Contemporary Glass
Corning Museum of Glass
Tami Landis joined The Corning Museum of Glass as Curator of Postwar and Contemporary Glass in 2023 where she oversees the vision, strategic direction, and management of the Museum’s respected Postwar and Contemporary Glass collection, which includes 13,000 works made nationally and internationally dating from 1945 to the present. Landis serves as the editor of New Glass Review, an annual “exhibition in print” featuring the most timely, innovative glass art projects produced during the year. She also oversees the Museum’s prestigious Rakow Commission, awarded annually to a contemporary artist.
Before joining the Museum, Landis held curatorial and educational appointments at the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) and the Western Gallery & Outdoor Sculpture Collection at Western Washington University. At the TMA, Landis held the role of curatorial assistant in the Modern and Contemporary department and then served as the inaugural Hirsch Fellow where she assisted Diane C. Wright, Senior Curator of Glass and Contemporary Craft, in the acquisition, management, interpretation, and display of the encyclopedic and contemporary glass collection, encompassing around 6,000 objects. During this year-long fellowship, she contributed to the exhibitions Now & Then: Moments in Glass History, a major re-installation of the historical and contemporary glass collection; Katherine Gray: (Being) In a Hot Shop, a
multi-sensory exhibition of contemporary glass.
Landis holds a Master’s in Art History/Museum Studies from Bowling Green State University and a Bachelor’s in Art Education from the University of Toledo.
Tom Moore
Glass Artist
2024 FUSE Glass Prize Winner
Tom Moore is a glass artist based in Adelaide. His time is divided between working within the hot glass community at JamFactory, from his own home studio and at the University of South Australia as an Adjunct Research Fellow, where he is undertaking practical investigations in glass focusing on hybrid life-forms, humour and the anthropocene. Moore’s work has been featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Gallery Of Modern Art, Brisbane; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. He was the focus of JamFactory’s ICON series in 2020, which was celebrated through a major national touring exhibition, Abundant Wonder, and has received a number of awards for his glass artworks.
Brian Parkes
Chief Executive Officer
JamFactory
Brian Parkes has been CEO at JamFactory in Adelaide since April 2010. He has overseen significant development of the organisation’s exhibition and training programs and substantial growth in its audience and operational budget. He is passionate about the social, cultural and economic value of contemporary art, craft and design and has worked in senior curatorial and commercial management roles in the Australian cultural sector for over 30 years, including stints at the Australian Design Centre, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Gallery of Australia. He has curated numerous exhibitions focused on contemporary Australian craft and design including the first national survey of contemporary design; Freestyle: new Australian design for living in 2006 and has remained active in mentoring and supporting emerging artists, designers and creative entrepreneurs over the past two decades.