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Jae Hoon Lee has received the 2013 Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award and a six month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, USA.

The Wallace Art Awards 2013, with prizes amounting to over $190,000, was opened by Governor General, Lt Gen Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae at the Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Monday 2 September 2013.

This year the Wallace Arts Trust received 475 entries from which 92 entries have been selected as finalists.

49 finalists have been chosen for the Award Winners & Travelling Finalists exhibition and the balance are represented in the Salon des Refuses.  The 2013 Awards were judged by prominent art practitioners Warwick Brown MNZM, Rhana Devenport, Peter Panyoczki, Terry Stringer ONZM and Robin Woodward – as well as Carole Shepheard ONZM and Scott Optican who were joined by Warwick and Peter for the Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust

The 2013 Award Winners Are:

The Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award

Jae Hoon Lee receives a 6 month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, USA.

Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award

Steve Rood receives a 3 month residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, USA.

The Kaipara Foundation Wallace Arts Trust Award

Sam Foley receives a 3 month residency at the Altes Spital in Solothurn, Switzerland.

The Wallace Arts Trust Vermont Award

Julia deVille receives a 3 month residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, USA.

Ist Runner-up Award Marita Hewitt Marita Hewitt is awarded $2,500.

2nd Runner-up Award Glen Hayward Glen Hayward is awarded $2,500.

Jury Award Madeleine Child This prize is non-monetary.

The People’s Choice Award, worth $500, will be determined after the Award Winners & Travelling Finalists exhibition has concluded at Wallace Gallery Morrinsville, 20 April 2014.

Jae Hoon Lee - Artist Statement

I lead a nomadic existence, working in and between cultural territories. This creative process allows me to record and assemble an image bank of my experiences as a cultural wanderer. Over the past decade I have been collecting source material in New Zealand and other countries I have visited including India, Egypt, Nepal and Antarctica. My daily collecting habit has expanded to include natural elements, urban scenes, daily objects and banal accidents (random situations and happenings on the street). This bank of images is used to create the digitally collaged photographs and videos that are such a vital part of my oeuvre.

As an avid collector of images from everyday life,  my working practice consists of documenting the people I meet and my daily surroundings with a camera. Like a perpetual tourist, I work as a stranger in a strange land, compelled to understand what others may find unremarkable.

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Exhibitions

The Award Winners & Travelling Finalists exhibition will be exhibited at:

Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre: 3 September to 3 November 2013.

Pataka Art + Museum: 25 November 2013 to 9 February 2014, opening Sunday 24 November.

Wallace Gallery Morrinsville: 27 February to 20 April 2014, opening Wednesday 26 February.

The Salon des Refuses will be exhibited at the Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre from 3 September to 10 November 2013.

Public Events

Awards Showcase

Tuesday 10 September, 6pm onwards, entry: $10 cash on the door (free entry for Secondary School students)

This year is the first year we will be offering another event especially for the general public to celebrate the Awards. View the exhibitions while enjoying nibbles, music and a public address by Warwick Brown, from the 22nd Annual Wallace Art Awards 2013 judging panel. Mix and mingle with Award Winners, Finalists and Judges.

Art Awards Around the World

ARTWEEK talk, Thursday 17 October, 1:30-2:30pm, FREE

Wallace Arts Trust Deputy Director Dr Oliver Stead takes a look at recent art awards around the world and finds a fabulous diversity of competitions and winners. Oliver highlights international trends in the context of the 22nd Annual Wallace Art Awards 2013, and looks at questions such as why some awards, like Britain’s Turner Prize, have come to capture global attention and catapult winners like Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst to media superstardom.

Source: The James Wallace Arts Trust