Jim Speers wins the Wallace Award
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"I want to rekindle those warm feelings that you get as night is falling and you're walking towards the fish and chip shop and you see the neon light and think "Oh, that's a nice sign." Jim Speers
Jim Speers will be having more nice warm feelings this weekend as he celebrates winning $35, 000 and a UK residency, in the 13th annual Wallace Art Awards.
Speers describes his work as, " - the banal - .the random sequence of memory - unimportant things - "I want to rekindle those warm feelings that you get as night is falling and you're walking towards the fish and chip shop and you see the neon light and think "Oh, that's a nice sign." Jim Speers
Jim Speers will be having more nice warm feelings this weekend as he celebrates winning $35, 000 and a UK residency, in the 13th annual Wallace Art Awards.
Speers describes his work as, " - the banal - .the random sequence of memory - unimportant things -the banal - .the random sequence of memory - unimportant things - .what I see at my feet - .or some small thing you may see walking into a house, you know, at the corner of your vision, like light coming through a ranch-slider door".
Robert Leonard on Jim Speers': His work is hard to explain, and it's really about that. The works remind you of all these things, things you can't quite put your finger on. It's about putting you in that frame of mind, like just before you remember the name of the actress in that film by so and so. He likes to trap you in that moment before you name it and nail it.
Auckland artist Matt Ellwood won the Wallace Development Prize, which includes a residency in New York.
The runners-up were Aucklanders Katja Fabig and Miranda Playfair. Robert McLeod of Wellington received a jury prize.
Forty of the entries are on display at the Wallace Trust Gallery in Queen St, Auckland, until October 1.