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Enter the Wallace Art Awards
Entries Close Tuesday 28 July, 5pm
Click HERE to view the online submission form
The Wallace Arts Trust is calling for submissions for the 2015 Wallace Art Awards, please assist us by sharing with your networks this wonderful opportunity.
The Awards are given for contemporary New Zealand painting, sculpture, video, drawing and unique photography and print.
The Judges this year are Joyce Campbell, Andrew Clifford, Ian Jervis, Andrew McLeod and Philip Trusttum. Judges for the Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award are Bronwynne Cornish, Mark Fitzgerald, Richard Maloy and Steve Rood.
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The Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award
A six month residency at the the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York. This includes a studio, great facilities, support from on site staff, the opportunity to attend lectures, field trips including out-of-town expenses, and a minimum of two open-studio exhibitions/receptions. The Paramount Award Winner also receives a bronze trophy by Terry Stringer.
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The Kaipara Wallace Arts Trust Award
A three month residency at Altes Spital in Solothurn, Switzerland. This includes a large studio apartment, access to specialist studios and workshops and the opportunity to attend exhibitions and work with specialist advisors.
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Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award
Note: This Award has different entry requirements and the deadline is Saturday 1 August > click here. A three month residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, USA. Fulbright New Zealand was established in 1948 to promote mutual understanding through educational and cultural exchanges between New Zealand and the United States of America.
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The Wallace Arts Trust Vermont Award
A three month residency at the Vermont Studio Center, USA. This includes, a studio, meals, accomodation, a stipend, counsel from a distinguished roster of six visiting artists, and the fellowship of professional peers from around the world. The Vermont Ctudio Center was founded by artists in 1984 and is the largest international artists' and writers' Residency Program in the United States.
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1st Runners Up Award
$2,500
2nd Runners Up Award
$2,500
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Peoples’ Choice Award
$750
(Winner to be announced at the end of the Travelling Show)
Jury Award
(non-monetary)
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Image credits above (top to bottom): Paramount Award: Roger Mortimer, Otago Harbour, 2014, acrylic ink on canvas / The Kaipara Wallace Arts Trust Award: Glen Hayward, 50 cent vs count of fate, 2014, acrylic on rimu, / Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award: Ruth Watson, Telluric Insurgencies I, 2014, graphite and acrylic on commercial mannequin / The Wallace Arts Trust Vermont Award: David McCracken, involute and transmission, 2014, corten steel / First Runner-up Award: Raewyn Turner and Brian Harris, Verdugos, 2014, winter fruit tree sapling branches, hemp string, copper wire, metal and wood, electric motor, radio / Second Runner-up Award: Noel Ivanoff, Slider – Black 1, 2014, oil on aluminium panel / Jury Award & Peoples Choice Award: Stephen Ellis, The Anchor Drags, 2014, ballpoint pen and correction fluid on paper
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Toss Woollaston, Tasman Bay, 1956, oil on card, framed and glazed. Collection of the Wallace Arts Trust.
Come along to a special upcoming event
Woollaston: An Evening Celebration
Thursday 16 July, 6:30pm
The evening will be filled with insights into the career of Toss Woollaston, one of New Zealand’s greatest painters. It will begin with a reading from the book Erua, a publication by Woollaston that features a sequence of studies completed in the early 1960s alongside text by the artist. Following will be a performance by one of New Zealand’s most talented group of young musicians, the Mimosa Ensemble. To finish the evening, Dr Oliver Stead will share his journey in researching the life of the remarkable painter that has resulted in the extensive book that accompanies the exhibition.
Tickets are $20 and include a glass of wine and nibbles > Avaliable HERE
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Opening Soon...
Medal Artists of New Zealand: Regroup Reflect Regenerate
21 July - 20 September / Opening: 21 July 6 - 8pm
Betty Beadle Paul Beadle John Andrew Frances Battersby Nigel Brown Bing Dawe Louise Dentice John Edgar Robert Ellis Fatu Feu’u Charlotte Fisher Marian Fountain Fiona Garlick David Guerin Paul Hartigan Bill Hayes Christine Hellyar Samantha Lissette Christine Massey Richard Mathieson Mary McIntyre Hamish McWhannell Richard McWhannell Neil Miller Juliette Milne Stanley Palmer Alan Preston Louise Purvis Michael Reed Terry Stringer Wallace Sutherland Marte Szirmay Greer Twiss Jim Wheeler Peter Woods > Read more
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