The second annual TWT Excellence Prize has increased to a $5000 bursary awarded to the top graduating artist presenting work in the University of NSW Art & Design’s ANNUAL 18 Graduate Exhibition, Australia’s largest and most diverse national showcase of graduate contemporary art, design and creative media.

The winner will be announced on Tuesday 27 November at an advance preview of the A&D ANNUAL 18, ahead of the public opening of the exhibition that features work by 200 graduating students across seven venues at UNSW Art & Design.

The 2018 judging panel also includes UNSW Deputy Head of School (Design) Dr Mark Ian Jones; UNSW Senior Fine Arts Lecturer Debra Phillips; and Art Initiatives Manager at TWT and Bridging Hope Charity Foundation, Ariel Zhang.

Inaugural TWT Excellence Prize winner, Jessica Long, won the prize in 2017 for her video work titled Apartment Block No. 10, a four-minute video work that paid homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window and featured 10 sequences of apartment night-life.