The 20th Wallace Art Awards 2011, with prizes amounting to over $165,000, were presented last night by Auckland Mayor Len Brown at The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre. The Awards are the longest surviving and largest of their kind in New Zealand. They differ from other important New Zealand art prizes in that they aim to provide challenging opportunities and broadening experiences to the four major winners by way of residencies at top-class international institutions.
The Wallace Arts Trust received 559 entries from which 117 entries have been selected as finalists. Sixty-one finalists have been chosen for the Travelling Show and the balance is represented in the Salon des Refusés. The Awards were judged by three distinguished New Zealand artists – Philip Trusttum, Sara Hughes and Peter Gibson-Smith.
THE 2011 WINNERS ARE:
Akiko Diegel
Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award
Akiko receives a 6 month-residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, USA.
Brydee Rood
Fulbright Wallace Trust Award
Brydee receives a 3 month-residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, USA.
Matt Ellwood
The Kaipara Foundation Wallace Trust Award
Matt receives a 3 month-residency at the Altes Spital in Solothurn, Switzerland
Bronwynne Cornish
Wallace Development Award
Bronwynne receives a 2 month-residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, USA.
Emil McAvoy
Ist Runner Up Award
Emil is awarded $2,000 cash
Anita Levering
2nd Runner Up Award
Anita is awarded $2,000 cash
Philip Dadson
Jury Award
This prize is non-monetary
The People’s Choice Award, worth $500, will be decided after the Travelling Exhibition has finished its leg at The Dowse on 4 December.
Winners and selected finalists will be chosen for the Travelling Exhibition, on show at the TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre in Auckland from 6 September to 16 October 2011, and The Dowse in Lower Hutt from 29 October to 4 December 2011. A Salon des Refusés will be on show at the TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre in Auckland from 6 September to 14 October 2011.
DETAILS OF WINNING WORKS
Akiko Diegel, Cure (2011), Disprin packets, perspex, 650 x 450 x 27mm (The disprin packets have been fashioned into bulldog clips)
Matt Ellwood, Unconditional Love (2011) Plywood, dowel, 950 x 1100 x 1500mm
Brydee Rood, Müll Ballon Wolke Kanal Projekt (2011) Intervention / live installation performance / video (created using a 3-person kayak)
*Brydee Rood won the Fulbright Award with a body of works – this image is representative of one work
Bronwynne Cornish, Between a Rock and Hard Place (2011) Ceramic collage mounted on metal stand, 500 x 300 x 300mm
Philip Dadson, Headstamps II: Homage to the Silk Road (2011) DVD video/sound, 5.00 minutes
Emil McAvoy , Helen (2011) Archival pigment on Hahnemuehle paper, 1110 x 830mm. Original source: photographer and date unknown, National Publicity Studios, Copyright Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga, Wellington, [AAQT, 6418, 29]
Anita Levering, False Flat – Sap Green on Paynes Grey (2010) Acrylic and watercolour on linen, 2080 x 1980mm
MEDIA ENQUIRIES:
Wallace Arts Trust: Jana Beer: jana.beer@wallaceartstrust.org.nz; 09 639 2010 ext 5
Matthew Wood: matthew.wood@wallaceartstrust.org.nz; 09 639 2010 ext6
Exhibbit.com: Jason Catterall: jason@exhibbit.com; 021 236 2271