JOHN STRINGER PRIZE 2023

Angelina is from Kalumburu, the daughter of artist Lily Karadada and medicine man Jack Karadada.
Not only an excellent painter, Angelina is employed as a Senior Arts Worker at Kira Kiro Artists. She graduated from the ANKA Arts Worker Foundation Training Program and the National Gallery of Australia Wesfarmers Indigenous Leadership Fellowship in 2019.
Her commitment to her people, the Wunambal Gaambera, involved her in a collaboration developing a substantial dictionary of their language, and she sits on the boards of ANKA and Wanambal Gaambera.

Ilona McGuire is a Noongar and Kungarakan interdisciplinary artist working primarily in printmaking, drawing and installation. Through use of cultural and western techniques, Ilona creates sacred sanctuaries within western institutional spaces.
After her 2021 drone light show, MOOMBAKI with the Fremantle Biennale, Ilona was awarded the Schenberg Art Fellowship for Hatched: National Graduate Show 2022 at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA). She is a Curtin Graduate, and is currently working as and Assistant Producer for Fremantle Biennale on Nation-wide, First Lights project (2023).

Amy Perejuan-Capone works between Fremantle, the Perth hills, the Western Australian wheatbelt, and international residencies. With a background in art, design, and aviation, Perejuan-Capone continually returns to objects and the networks of agency held within them and, increasingly, the roles the environment, anxiety, personal history, and optimism play in this system.
Amy is also a Curtin Graduate, and has completed international residencies including the prestigious Shigaraki Ceramic Culture Park, 2019, the Asialink Fremantle – Taipei Artist Village exchange in 2020, and the Upernavik Museum residency, Greenland, in 2017.

Stewart was born in Scotland, arriving in Australia with his family in mid-50s. His early education focussed on science-based subjects and he subsequently worked in an oil industry laboratory. During this time he spent time in the army reserve and studied ceramics at Fremantle TAFE eventually abandoning the laboratory for a full time ceramics career in the early eighties.
Stewart has exhibited regularly within WA, interstate and overseas.
Environmental concerns drive much of Stewarts practice and he grows the wood used in the kiln from seedlings, and the clay used is blended using local clays so that the work is very much of the place.

Corban Clause Williams is Manyjilyjarra and a Martumili Artist, from Newman, the Pilbara region.
His artwork is informed by the time he has spent on country at Kaapla; a desert water site that is the ngurra, the Country of his two grandfathers who maintained traditional lifestyles in this region.
He has exhibited nation-wide (including, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Fremantle Art Centre, Perth Centre of Photography, Art Gallery of South Australia and Sydney Contemporary). He has received several awards including the inaugural MA Art Prize at Sydney Contemporary, Cossack Art Award (2020), Midwest Art Award (2019) and the Hedland Art Award (2018).