The Royal Queensland Art Society is delighted to announce the judges for the 2026 Queen’s Wharf Brisbane Art Prize.
Run in partnership with Queen’s Wharf Brisbane, the prize brings new opportunities to Queensland Artists and celebrates the unique city of Brisbane and the surrounding areas.
David Henderson FRQAS
After initial studies in architecture, David Henderson spent four years at London’s Royal Academy Schools where he was awarded the S.J. Solomon prize for figure painting and was twice selected for the Academy’s annual summer exhibition. Since then, he has held over 30 solo exhibitions in London, Rome, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
His work has been selected for a number of prestigious group exhibitions, including the New English Art Club, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and Tattersall’s Landscape Prize. David has been the recipient of numerous awards including – on two occasions – Best of Show at the Brisbane Rotary art exhibition.
In 2021, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Queensland Art Society. David has lectured for the Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland University of Technology and the Brisbane Institute of Art. David brings a trained artist’s eye to an analysis of painting, sculpture and architecture and takes great pleasure in sharing his knowledge.
Sally Brand
Sally Brand is Curatorial Manager, Australian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. She is regarded for her capacity to bring to life ambitious contemporary art projects in Australia and internationally.
Prior to her role at QAGOMA, which saw her return to her hometown after twenty years away, Brand worked at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra as well as decade in the commercial art sector living in Beijing and Sydney. Brand holds a Master of Arts (Art History) from the University of Sydney, as well as a Bachelor of Arts (Art History) from the University of Queensland.
Mostyn Bramley-Moore
Mostyn Bramley-Moore studied Fine Arts at the University of Sydney, RMIT University and Pratt Institute (New York). He has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas, and his work is included in numerous public collections including the Australian National Gallery, the Art Gallery of NSW, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Auckland Art Gallery.
He completed studio residencies and fellowships at institutions including the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), the University of St. Andrews (Scotland), the University of Hawaii, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Camberwell College of the Arts (University of the Arts London) and the Valand Academy of Art (Sweden). He taught at several Australian universities and was Head of Visual Arts at Southern Cross University, Dean of the School of Art at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) and Director of the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University).
