2022 judging panel
Meet the 36th Dulux Colour Awards judges for 2022. Here’s the chance to get your work in front of our panel of industry experts. You’re invited to share work that celebrates your innovative use of colour.
Our Judges
Olivia Macfarlane
Director, Undercurrent
Olivia is Director at Undercurrent, a New Zealand-based architectural interior design studio founded in 2020 on the premise that life is a sensory experience, and every touchpoint impacts the way we live. This is the philosophy that guides the studio’s design sensibility.
Undercurrent’s design approach is based on its ability to harness and manipulate a current, or a flow of energy, within an environment. Colour is an integral element that has an immense ability to enhance materiality, create visual illusions, alter spatial perception and evoke emotions that portray a narrative, and ultimately build a sense of aliveness for its inhabitants.
Undercurrent was the winner of the 2021 Dulux New Zealand Grand Prix award for colour.
Adam Pustola
Principal, Lyons
Adam Pustola is a Principal of Lyons and contributes across the practice’s range of education, healthcare, public realm, commercial, and courts sector project. He has provided design leadership on award-winning projects such as the New Academic Street at RMIT, the Law Courts of the ACT, and the Colleges of Science at ANU. Adam’s approach to design is to connect ideas of culture, the city and campus, and user-centric thinking with the diverse communities that these projects serve.
“Creating meaning through a project is central for architecture to be a cultural project. Colours and all the associations and reactions they evoke are always a challenging and exciting part of the design conversation.”
Adam has also contributed to the AIA as a juror for its awards programs, as a Chapter Councillor, and collaborates to teach design studios at RMIT University. In 2014 he was a recipient of the Dulux Study Tour prize.
Adriana Hanna
Director of Architecture, Kennedy Nolan
Adriana has worked with Kennedy Nolan for over 14 years and has made a significant contribution to the culture and aesthetic of the practice. In recognition of this, Adriana was appointed Head of Interiors in 2017, Associate in 2018, and Director of Architecture in 2021.
She brings a wealth of knowledge about contemporary design, art, architecture, and materials, as well as valuable documentation and administration experience to each new project. She has worked across residential, multi-residential, commercial, and education projects with a strong focus on sympathetic refurbishments of significant buildings.
Characterized by meticulous attention to elegant detail, and a focus on delivering high-quality outcomes Adriana has been actively involved as both a juror and Jury Chair for the Australian Institute of Architects Awards as well as various other design awards programs.
Cushla McFadden
Director, Tom Mark Henry
Cushla McFadden, Director of award-winning firm Tom Mark Henry brings her adept creativity and systematic delivery approach to design that sees unique design resolutions realised with each project. She gains a great deal of satisfaction when a project is truly collaborative and a number of factors contribute to its success.
The opportunity to expand her environment; traveling, collaborating with artists and suppliers, or experiencing the outdoors – is one of the great influences on Cushla’s work as these stimulants fuel her creativity and curiosity.
Cushla completed a degree in Interior Architecture at the University of New South Wales, after which she moved to New York to gain experience in an international practice before founding Tom Mark Henry in 2014.
David Welsh
Director, Welsh + Major
David Welsh is an architect, writer, and co-founder of Welsh + Major, a "modern-ish" architecture, interiors and urban design practice he established with Chris Major. The work of the practice has featured in prominent design publications around the world in both print and online. He has taught at various universities, participated in architecture awards juries and contributed as a writer to a number of publications both in Australia and abroad.
Welsh + Major’s portfolio of work spans public spaces and private homes, restaurants and bars, galleries, shops, workplaces, open spaces, and the reinvention of historic buildings. Their work seeks an artistic resolution of programme and detail with a focus on context and landscape, memory and material.
