Goldwater Art Award
National award for two-dimensional art
Prize: $3,000
Applications are now being called from emerging and established artists for the annual Goldwater Art Award 2003. The Waiheke Community Art Gallery in partnership with Goldwater Estate has created this opportunity for artists to participate in an award that promotes excellence in the arts.Goldwater Art Award
National award for two-dimensional art
Prize: $3,000
Applications are now being called from emerging and established artists for the annual Goldwater Art Award 2003. The Waiheke Community Art Gallery in partnership with Goldwater Estate has created this opportunity for artists to participate in an award that promotes excellence in the arts.Last year the annual Goldwater Award attracted more than 160 entries from artists across New Zealand. Judges Simon McIntyre and Keith Stewart gave the $3000 premier art award for 2002 to Northcote painter Sharon Vickers for her oil on canvas work Behind a Head (21 hours of rear vision), a painting that looks at what goes behind our backs. A friend took photos, once an hour, of just what was going on behind her. The resulting work was a take at the half-seen, the barely noticed and peripheral edges of our world. "We experience the world physically, restricted by our lack of rear vision, yet we sense that world behind our heads," said Vickers, in notes accompanying the painting. "A sense of paranoia spills into our periphery, where ghosts can linger." The win was "absolutely wonderful" and "quite unexpected", for Vickers, who graduated last year from the Auckland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Visual Arts.
Nelson painter Patrick Malone won in 2001 with a striking acrylic on canvas work called Orb of Life and Light.
This year's judge is contemporary artist Judy Darragh. Currently a part time lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, Judy is also a practising artist, exhibits extensively and has works in major collections in public galleries and private collections around New Zealand.
The exhibition opens Friday October 10 at 6pm and the winner of the 2003 award for $3000 will be announced at a public award ceremony on Saturday 25 October at 5pm.
Application forms are available from the gallery or on line at www.waihekeartgallery.org.nz
Waiheke Community Art Gallery
2 Korora Road, Oneroa
Ph: (9) 372 9907 Fax: (9) 372 9917