Two-faced portrait wins Wallace Art Awards
Wallace Art Awards 2010 TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, 72 Hillsborough Rd, Auckland. Until October 3
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Wallace Art Awards 2010
TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, 72 Hillsborough Rd, Auckland. Until October 3
The Wallace Awards are now in their 19th year and continue to be the best showcase of contemporary art in the country.This year they are in the new home for the Wallace collection at the recently restored Pah Homestead, Hillsborough, which has been the venue for the Wallace Arts Trust collection for the past couple of weeks.
The winner of the Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award this year was Sam Mitchell for the double portrait Janus, the double-faced god who looks to the past and the future.
He is also the god of transitions, a position which artist Sam Mitchell will find herself in with a six-month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Programme in New York. She also receives a bronze trophy by Terry Stringer.
Glen Hayward won the Kaipara Foundation Wallace Arts Trust Award – a three-month residency at Altes Spital, Switzerland. His work was four hand-made wooden surveillance cameras set high on the wall of one of the galleries.
Mark Braunias won the Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award – a three-month residency at the Headlands Centre for the Arts in San Francisco. His work The Periodic Table consisted of around 100 small drawing on paper, a cross between a mural and an artist’s diary
The Arts Trust Development Award – a two-month residency at the Vermont Studio Centre, went to Graham Fletcher for his surreal Untitled (nordischefreikorperkultur). The title is a reference to Nordic nudity clubs.
The other award winners were Simon Esling, Iain Cheesman and Robyn Hoonhout.
This year there were around 400 entries to the awards of which 106 are on show, including a number in the Salon de Refuses.
Works by Sam Mitchell, Matthew Browne, Matthew Carter and Adrian Jackman
The exhibition of winners and selected finalists will travel to TheNewDowse, 45 Laings Rd, Hutt City, and will be on display from Oct 22-Nov28, 2010. TheNewDowse is open to the public Monday to Friday from 10am-4.30pm, and on Saturday. and Sunday from 10am - 5pm.
John Daly-Peoples
Tue, 07 Sep 2010
Tue, 07 Sep 2010
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Two-faced portrait wins Wallace Art Awards
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