Meet our Judging Team for 2026
Dan Butterworth
Rosa Fedele
Anastasia Kotzapavlidis
Lou Callow
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Lou Callow​​​​
For the past ten years Lou's focus has been on teaching art and contributing to community arts projects.
Lou's arts production is underpinned by a strong sense of connection to environment, community, and her place within the universe. Using a range of media and techniques her work expresses on-going concern, love, and compassion for all living things. The rhythm of the universe and the intermingled relationship between the circle, soul, earth, and climate challenges continue to be themes that she feels compel her to explore and express. In this endeavour I am guided by the wisdom of ancient Indigenous cultures, and embracing quality time being at one with nature.​
Her career as an Arts Educator spans more than 40 years; the past 24 years were spent at Bacchus Marsh Grammar, until changing direction in 2020. Over many years she has guided students in the production of community arts, including garden mosaics, sculptures, and large mural paintings to nurture pride of place, connectedness and belonging in the school environment.
Dan Butterworth​
Doug Moran and Archibald Prize finalist, Daniel Butterworth is an established artist specialising in portraiture – frequently using portraits to express social, political and personal views.
With numerous solo and group exhibitions to his name, along with selection as a finalist in a large number of high profile portrait prizes, Daniel is now in demand as a guest artist and teacher in Australia.​
After painting with oils for most of his career, he recently switched to house paints, allowing for much more freedom and spontaneity in his work.
Having started his working life as a sign-writer, Dan later completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Latrobe University and has been a practising artist for more than 20 years.​Dan works from his studio in Kyneton, Victoria.
Anastasia Kotzapavlidis​​
Anastasia studied visual arts at Melbourne Polytechnic in 2012-16 and is an artist specialising in printmaking.
Anastasia has exhibited in various galleries and she runs lino print workshops at Firestation Print Studio where she has supervised the Lino Club at FPS for over seven years.
Anastasias greatest love is to be amongst creative people and her family.
Rosa Fedele​​
Rosa Fedele is an Australian contemporary artist and author based in the beautiful Central Highlands, VIC. Unconstrained by conventional expectations, Rosa’s work is genre-defying, often veering into the world of whimsy, her style is a blend of figurative, illustrative with a touch of absurdism.
​Rosa has been a finalist in numerous awards, including the Portia Geach Memorial Art Prize, Almenara Art Prize (Spain), Copes Portrait Prize and Kennedy Prize.
Her work has been exhibited in NSW Parliament House, Parliament House Canberra as well as galleries and exhibitions in Australia and worldwide, and hangs in the Delta Airways Business Lounge LAX.Her artwork GORDANA was also selected as part of the digital catalogue for The Lunar Codex, using digital and analog technology to preserve art, books and music in time capsules to The Moon, launched early 2024 on board Peregrine and Nova (www.lunarcodex.com)​​​
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