20th Wallace Art Awards - Call For Entries
The 20th Wallace Art Awards 2011, with prizes amounting to $165,000, are now calling for entries. These are the longest surviving and largest annual art awards 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 Awards will be presented at the Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, on Monday 5 September.
The Awards encompass contemporary New Zealand painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, unique photography, and for the first time, video. The Awards are designed to encourage and develop the visual arts in New Zealand and to reward those producing outstanding work. This year the Awards are being judged by three distinguished New Zealand artists – Philip Trusttum, Sara Hughes and Peter Gibson-Smith.
The Exhibition of Winners and Selected Finalists will be on display at the Pah Homestead from 6 September to 16 October 2011, before travelling to The Dowse in Lower Hutt where the exhibition will run from 29 October to 4 December 2011. A Salon des Refusés of the finalists not selected for the travelling show will be on display at the Pah Homestead from 6 September – 14 October 2011.
The Fulbright Wallace Arts Trust Award has a different judging procedure and requires a separate entry form. The requirements and entry date for this award closes at 5pm on Monday 1 August 2011. Go to the Fulbright website for details and application form: www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nz-wat.html
To enter the 20th Wallace Art Awards 2011, applicants must guarantee that the work is a one-off original, not of an edition, that was executed by the applicant in the 12-month period prior to 11 August 2011, when entries close at 5pm. Entries must not have been exhibited in a public exhibition. For further entry details please download the application forms from www.tsbbankwallaceartscentre.org.nz/wallace-arts-trust/ or www.wallaceartstrust.org.nz/?s1=wallace%20art%20awards.
PRIZES
Total Value: approximately NZ $165,000.00
1. WALLACE TRUST PARAMOUNT AWARD
Six month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, plus a Bronze Trophy by Terry Stringer.
2. THE KAIPARA FOUNDATION WALLACE TRUST AWARD
Three month residency at Altes Spital, Solothurn, Switzerland
3. FULBRIGHT WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD
Three month residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, USA
4. WALLACE DEVELOPMENT AWARD
Two month residency at the Vermont Studio Center, USA
5. 1ST RUNNER UP AWARD ($2,000)
6. 2ND RUNNER UP AWARD ($2,000)
7. JURY AWARD (Non-monetary) - Discretionary prize as decided by the jury
8. PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD ($500) - As voted by exhibition attendees.
For more information about the 20th Wallace Art Awards 2011 please email enquiries@wallaceartstrust.org.nz or call 09 639 2010. The Wallace Arts Trust Offices are located at The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, 72 Hillsborough Rd, Hillsborough, Auckland.
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TSB Bank Wallace Arts CentreThe TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre is Auckland’s exciting new cultural destination. Located in the historic Pah Homestead in Monte Cecilia Park, Hillsborough, the arts centre opened to the public in August 2010.
Pah Homestead was fully restored by the Auckland City Council together with the generous support of TSB Bank from 2009 to 2010 as the new home of the James Wallace Arts Trust and its collection.
The arts centre hosts a changing programme of free exhibitions curated from the James Wallace Arts Trust collection as well as regional touring exhibitions. The arts centre will also run ongoing community education programmes targeting Auckland schools and the wider public.
An artist in residency programme in association with Otago University is an important component of the arts centre. This partnership also provides for exhibitions curated from the extensive collections of the Hocken Library.
Many thanks to the Auckland Decorative and Fine Arts Society and its members who provide ongoing support to the centre through the provision of volunteer docents.
