Hamish Sawyer

2025 Guest Judge

Hamish Sawyer is the Curator at Linden New Art, St Kilda. Prior to taking up this role in July 2024, Sawyer was the Artistic Director of NorthSite Contemporary Arts in Cairns. Recent curatorial projects include ‘Bernhard Sachs: After History’, Linden New Art, 2025;  ‘Anastasia Klose: For Thy Sake I In Love Am Grown’, NorthSite Contemporary Arts, 2024; ‘After Fairweather’, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery 2022;  and ‘Sam Cranstoun: You are neither here nor there’, University of Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, 2023.

Sawyer has also worked at the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, serving as a co-curator for the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8). In addition, he has held positions at Caloundra Regional Gallery, the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) and Arts Queensland, as well as several commercial galleries.

Sawyer has written for publications including Art Monthly Australasia, ArtLink and VAULT. He has also contributed texts to monographs on artists Michael Cook, Laith McGregor, Sandra Selig and Marian Tubbs; and collection publications for the Rockhampton Museum of Art and The Australian Catholic University.

Photo: Sam Cranstoun