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Prose poetry wins Adam prize

International Institute of Modern Letters — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:07:16 +1300

A collection of prose poetry which explores love, science and the imagination, has won the prestigious Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for 2011.

This year's winner is Hera Bradburn for And Together We Fight Crime. Read More »

A multi-media biography

Unitec New Zealand — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:03:16 +1300

Photography student Vicky Te Puni will exhibit a multi-media biography of a Pacific Island ethnic journey at the Unitec Grad Show.

You may recognize photography student Vicky Te Puni from the Unitec Institute of Technology reality-doco style advertising campaign that has unfolded on television screens during the year. Read More »

2012 Museum Art Hotel Scholarship

The Big Idea Editor — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:55:57 +1300

Toi Whakaari acting student Alex Tarrant is the recipient of the 2012 Museum Art Hotel Scholarship in association with Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand, awarded every year to an acting student of Toi Whakaari who has also participated in the Shakespeare Festivals organised by the SGCNZ.
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2011 Asian Short Story finalists

NZ Society of Authors — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:35:38 +1300

The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.) is delighted to announce the finalists of the inaugural Asian Short Story competition. The finalists are: Read More »

Awards for UCOL photography students

Samantha @ UCOL — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:33:26 +1300

UCOL Photography student Fleur Verhoeven has won the 2011 Canon EYEcon photographic competition with a portfolio the judges described as a controversial and powerful use of imagery. Read More »

Emerging Artist Awards

Artrium Gallery — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:25:57 +1300

The night was buzzing, the artists were nervous and the gallery was packed! Artrium Gallery hosted the First Annual Wellington Emerging Artist Awards last night in Thorndon. This small gallery really stands tall in the art world, especially in identifying some of the best local talent Wellington has to offer. Read More »

UCOL fashion student shows at Style Pasifika

Samantha @ UCOL — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:24:00 +1300

Designs by UCOL second year Bachelor of Fashion student Laura Volp are featuring in a fashion extravaganza in Auckland – this year’s Read More »

Student wins scholarship with pencil drawing

Samantha @ UCOL — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:55:47 +1300

Third-year Whanganui UCOL fine arts student Bonnie Wroe is this year’s recipient of the pattillo scholarship award.

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UCOL design graduates among the BEST

Samantha @ UCOL — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:17:56 +1300

UCOL Whanganui School of Design graduate Sam Kemp claimed a bronze medal in the esteemed Best Design Awards recently. Read More »

Uni Student Film Festival

Unitec New Zealand — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:37:49 +1300

Unitec Institute of Technology is proud to announce the launch of a new student film festival, set up to showcase emerging student talent from New Zealand, and around the world.

Uni Shorts International Student Film Festival opened for submissions this month, and all current film students enrolled in tertiary study, as well as recent grads, are invited to take part. Read More »

2011 Short Film Lab participants announced

Script To Screen — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:45:17 +1300

Script to Screen and Show Me Shorts have announced the names of six up-and-coming filmmakers who will participate in the second annual Short Film Lab on Saturday 29 October.

Selected from over 60 applicants from around New Zealand, The participants in the 2011 Short Film Lab are: Jodie Hillock, Adam Harvey, Rebecca Barnes, Troy Blackman, Kelly Hunt, and Nic Sampson. Read More »

Objective Art Awards 2011

Mangere Arts Centre - Nga Tohu o Uenuku — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:29:44 +1300

An Objective Pereception Of A Whakatauaki

“Kia tupu, kia hua, kia puawai. To grow, to prosper, to sustain” – Princess Te Puea Herangi. Read More »

Help us Make Our Movie

Dimi Nakov — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:10:00 +1200

We are bunch of Nutters/Filmmakers having some fun with old/new/almost original/dusty/rusty explosive ideas soon to be screenplays as part of the innovative multi-platform project "Make My Movie" ,which utilizes graphic design, social networking, a web series and the public to decide which idea should receive $100,000 to be used to create a low budget feature film,which will be shot in New Zeal Read More »

Make My Movie Project

The Big Idea Editor — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:37:19 +1200

One Idea | One Dream | One Hundred Thousand Dollars Read More »

UCOL fine arts graduate is people’s choice

Samantha @ UCOL — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:27:38 +1200

Aaron Gash is known for his unconventional portraits.

His quirky take on the world recently earned him the People’s Choice Award at the Waikato Society of the Arts 2011 National Youth Art Awards. Read More »

UCOL colourists claim awards

Samantha @ UCOL — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:35:58 +1200

UCOL Interior Design students Simone Duckett and Sharon Dorman have wowed the judges, and their lecturer, at a national industry event. Read More »

taylavision ltd.

taylavision ltd. — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:38:48 +1200

'Mona Lisa' portrait wins IHC Art Awards

Arts Access Aotearoa — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:44:13 +1200

Lower Hutt artist Stacey Hughes has won the IHC Art Awards 2011 and $5000 for a powerful portrait with a 'Mona Lisa' smile. Read More »

Artists share watercolourist prize

University of Auckland — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:19:44 +1200

Three students from The University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts will share one of the country’s top prizes for watercolourists. Read More »

Design the Creative Commons Global Summit Poster

Creative Commons NZ — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:12:41 +1200

The 2011 Creative Commons Global Summit will be held in Warsaw, Poland, Some CC affiliates in Asia are hosting a poster design competition for the summit, based on the theme, “Powering an Open Future.” The winning designs (judged by an international panel and by popular vote) will be introduced at the Global Summit with people in attendance from all over the world, featured prominentl Read More »

NorthTec tutor takes top honours

NorthTec — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:47:07 +1200

Winning New Zealand’s oldest book prize is no mean feat, but NorthTec Applied Writing tutor, Diana Menefy has pulled it off. Read More »

Photographer awarded James White Overseas Study Grant

The Big Idea Editor — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:43:20 +1200

Master photographer Ollie Dale has been awarded the prestigious James White Overseas Study Grant at the 2011 Iris Awards held by the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photographers (NZIPP). Read More »

Designers Alphabet Contest

Goethe-Institut — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:06:32 +1200

This contest is open to design students and professionals based in New Zealand.

Design your own alphabet (all 26 letters, numbers are optional) and provide a sample of the alphabet letters spelling "Goethe-Institut" using your alphabet letters. You may submit digital or hand-drawn designs.

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Mix and Mash 2011

Mix and Mash NZ: the great New Zealand remix and mashup competition — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:32:15 +1200

Mix and Mash is back for a second year. The competition encourages the use of NZ digital content and data and demonstrates the cool things that can happen when organisations make their digital content available to the public. Read More »

Wellington Emerging Artists Award

Artrium Gallery — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:16:06 +1200

Artrium Gallery announces its First Annual Wellington Emerging Artist Awards!

Calling all Emerging Artists!! Get out your paintbrushes, canvas, camera, paper and pens! Start creating something new.

If you are an emerging artist - Artrium Gallery wants to hear from you. Read More »

Young Book Designer shortlist

Whitireia Publishing Diploma — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:55:00 +1200

Book designers Pieta Brenton, Sarah Healey and Spencer Levine make up the shortlist for the 2011 Awa Press Young Designer of the Year Award, announced today. Read More »

Young Fashion Designer Comp

The Big Idea Community Editor — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:32:20 +1200

The Top 10 finalists have been uploaded to the Westpac Young Fashion Designer Competition’s official Facebook page – and the public can vote online for their favourite young designer, right now! Read More »

Iris Fisher Scholarship 2011

Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:05:36 +1200

Louise Menzies announced as 2011 Iris Fisher Scholar Read More »

Minister highlights contribution of arts

Arts Access Aotearoa — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:29:31 +1200

Beyond the economic benefits, the arts make a very real contribution to the lives of individuals and to New Zealand society, the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, the Hon Christopher Finlayson, told more than 220 guests at Arts Access Aotearoa’s Big ‘A’ Awards 2011 ceremony held in the Banquet Hall of Parliament on July 20. Read More »

Govett-Brewster recognised for access to the arts

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:19:15 +1200

New Plymouth’s Govett-Brewster Art Gallery has been awarded the inaugural Big ‘A’ Creative New Zealand Arts For All Award in recognition of its work in becoming more accessible to the disabled community. Read More »

Animated Auckland

Auckland Council — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:49:34 +1200

Aliens, artists, and even an armadillo…just a handful of the skillfully crafted characters featured in this year’s entries to Animated Auckland. Auckland’s Town Hall recently came to life in hues of lime green and purple, as students and animation industry representatives were given the ‘green’ carpet treatment.
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Eden Arts inaugural Art Schools Award

Rose Browning — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:13:48 +1200

The Eden Arts Trust is proud to announce the judges for the inaugural Eden Arts Art Schools Award will be NBR arts writer John Daly-Peoples, gallerist Kate Mullins and new Artspace Director, Caterina Riva. Read More »

Judges Selected for 2011 Whanganui National

Aaron Potaka — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:29:09 +1200

The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust is pleased to announce the judges for the 2011 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards.

Neil Buddle, trustee and Whanganui printmaker, joins Andrea Duchatenier, mixed media artist and arts lecturer also of Whanganui. The judges will select the Best in Show and two Certificates of Merit winners. Read More »

Study award for filmmaker

Unitec New Zealand — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:01:23 +1200

A filmmaker whose short films made the V48 Hours national finals for the last three years running, has won the Unitec Aspiring Filmmaker Study Prize.

Alan Parr, who finished a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts in Directing and Writing for Screen and Theatre at Unitec in 2008, will use his award to return to the institution in 2012 for post-graduate study. Read More »

Writing competition considers contribution of chemistry

Royal Society of New Zealand — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:54:18 +1200

Writers are being invited to submit their thoughts about the contribution of chemistry to the well-being of our world in this year’s Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing competition. Read More »

UCOL film-makers show their Over and Undies

Samantha @ UCOL — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:40:14 +1200

UCOL’s video students’ crime movie with the dubious title of Over and Undies was an audience favourite at the recent V48 Hours Film Festival. Read More »

MIT's Photographers' Award

Katie Fisher — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:26:14 +1200

Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) Faculty of Creative Arts is offering one free full scholarship to the MIT Certificate of Photography at the Newmarket Campus, to a budding photographer or enthusiast. The competition is open to all, with the winner receiving the free scholarship. Read More »

Entries open for Central Otago Art Awards

Central Otago Arts — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:07:15 +1200

Entries are now open for the inaugural Central Otago Art Awards which are being held in September/October of this year. The Central Otago District Arts Trust is now accepting submissions for this nationwide, juried exhibition Read More »

BAVI graduate is junior news photographer of the year

Samantha @ UCOL — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:53:59 +1200

BAVI graduate and Marlborough Express photographer Ben Curran has been named junior newspaper photographer of the year.

His portfolio of six pictures taken during 2010 was judged the best entered in the Canon – formerly the Qantas - print media awards, announced in Auckland on Friday night.

Ben, aged 24, was also a finalist in the open section for best photo essay. Read More »

2011 National Youth Art Award

Waikato Society of Arts Inc. — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:49:16 +1200

Young artists from around New Zealand are invited to enter Waikato Society of Arts’ 2011 National Youth Art Award. This award encourages talented young artists with substantial dollar prizes. The exhibition in Hamilton of finalists will present a cross section of quality art at the cutting edge produced in New Zealand by young artists. Read More »

2011 National Schools Poetry Award

Lynn — Tue, 10 May 2011 16:53:01 +1200

The search for the best and brightest Year 12 and 13 poets is on again – the National Schools Poetry Award is back! Read More »

Graduation Gala Concerto Competition

University of Auckland — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:24:43 +1200

The University of Auckland will mark the close of Autumn Graduation Week 2011 with the ever-popular Graduation Gala Concerto Competition. Read More »

2011 Science Book Prize shortlist

Royal Society of New Zealand — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:12:10 +1300

The three books shortlisted for the 2011 Science Book Prize have been announced and the topics include New Zealand’s rarest parrot, the mystery of the Earth’s magnetism, and an exploration of climate change. Read More »

New access award

Creative New Zealand — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:02:56 +1300

With one in six New Zealanders experiencing disability, a new award has been established to recognise an arts organisation or company that has gone to 'extraordinary lengths' to make itself more accessible to the disabled community. Read More »

Nominations to Big ‘A’ Awards 2011

Arts Access Aotearoa — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:36:13 +1300

Arts Access Aotearoa is seeking nominations to its Big ‘A’ Awards 2011, the only national awards in New Zealand celebrating the often unsung work being done throughout New Zealand to provide artistic opportunities for people with limited access. Read More »

Glass prize for UCOL student

Samantha @ UCOL — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:04:41 +1300

The 2010 recipient of the Doyle Glass Acquisition Prize is Sam Swinburne, a graduating student from the Whanganui UCOL Diploma in Glass Design and Production programme.

Sam receives $1,000 from Doyle and Associates the Accountants in Whanganui, who acquire the winning piece titled Simply Vessel, into the Doyle Corporate Collection. Read More »

UCOL photography student snares Woolf grant

Samantha @ UCOL — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:48:10 +1300

Whanganui UCOL Bachelor of Fine Arts student Simonne Baillie, has been named as a recipient of a Ronald Woolf Memorial Trust grant, to be used towards her photographic study.

Next year Simonne will be entering Year 3 of the BFA, majoring in photography. She admits she struggled to choose her major as she also has strong interest in painting printmaking. Read More »

YOU ARE HERE - NMIT Graduate Show

fiona lees — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:51:26 +1300

YOU ARE HERE is the title of this year’s exhibition by NMIT Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design graduates at The Suter Te Aratoi o Whakatu Art Gallery. Read More »

UCOL student wins National Photography Award

Samantha @ UCOL — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:10:51 +1300

UCOL Visual Imaging student Kevin Bone has taken first place in the national Canon EYEcon awards, after coming second last year. Read More »

2011 iD International Emerging Designer Awards

Strategy First Ltd — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:40:14 +1300

Are you an innovative emerging fashion designer? The 2011 iD International Emerging Designer Awards is now open for entries and will take place in Dunedin on Thursday, 7 April. Read More »

Top Whanganui art student named

Samantha @ UCOL — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:53:59 +1300

One of the country’s richest art scholarship’s for students has been awarded to Fine Arts student Deborah Halliday from Whanganui UCOL’s Quay School of the Arts. Read More »

BDO Northland Painting and Drawing Award

Creative Northland — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:40:16 +1300

With less than a month to go until entries close, stunning entries are starting to be received for the 2010 BDO Northland Painting and Drawing Award. Read More »

UCOL photography teachers lead by example

Samantha @ UCOL — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:22:03 +1200

The teaching talent behind UCOL’s student success at this month’s Epson/New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography (NZIPP) Iris Professional Photography Awards was evident with four lecturers winning personal recognition. Read More »

2010 CLL/NZSA Research Grant winners

NZ Society of Authors — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:47:32 +1200

At an award ceremony in Auckland on Thursday 16 Septmber hosted by Copyright Licensing Ltd, the 2010 recipients of the third and final year of the CLL/NZSA Research Grants were announced. These grants, which were designed to fund the research of either a fiction or non-fiction project, were sponsored by CLL for a maximum of three years. Read More »

NZQA confirm Dance Scholarship

Creative Northland — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:11:26 +1200

DANZ and the Dance Subject Association amongst others, this year advocated for and supported the proposal to NZQA that dance be recognised as a scholarship subject in schools. Read More »

Photography accolades for UCOL

Samantha @ UCOL — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:17:15 +1200

UCOL has again confirmed its position as the place to study photography in New Zealand. Read More »

NZSA Mid-Career Writers Award

NZ Society of Authors — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:44:54 +1200

Mid-career writers have been an area of focus for the Society for some time now, and we are pleased to be able to offer an award to recognise the oeuvre of published work by a mid-career writer. Read More »

NorthTec student wins Bernina Fashion Awards

NorthTec — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:04:23 +1200

NorthTec fashion student Melanie Tomas took out the top prize at this year’s Bernina Fashion Awards Northland held in Whangarei recently.

Melanie designed, made the pattern, constructed and fitted her winning cocktail dress to her model and niece Bianca Ward. Read More »

Nelson Installation Project

Arthouse Architecture — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:16:23 +1200

A new installation project in Nelson linking art and architecture is available to two artists annually, with prize money of $4000 each. The Arthouse Installation Project is calling for artist submissions by 24 September. Read More »

SCAPE 2010 Critical Writing Workshop

SCAPE 2010 Biennial — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:40:06 +1200

SCAPE 2010 will feature a busy Opening Weekend of events, and to mark SCAPE’s dedication to the future of contemporary critical art writing we are holding the SCAPE 2010 Critical Writing Workshop on Thursday 23 September. Read More »

Siggraph success for Media Design School tutor

Media Design School — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:08:59 +1200

New Zealand students looking for the best animation school need look no further than Media Design School, where course leader James Cunningham has secured a Siggraph Jury Award - New Zealand's first - for his short film, Poppy. Read More »

Award for TLC tutor

The Learning Connexion — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:02:34 +1200

The Learning Connexion’s Sharon Hall has won ‘Best Emerging Artist’ at The Kapiti-Horowhenua Annual Art Review. Read More »

Short film Joy wins award

University of Auckland — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:40:55 +1200

Joy, a short film by recent University of Auckland masters graduate Dena Kennedy, is the first work to receive the Geoff Evans Memorial Award for Excellence from Images & Sound. Read More »

New Zealander awarded 'opportunity of a lifetime'

Caroline Nelson — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:00:33 +1200

Hedda Oosterhoff has been awarded the inaugural Pettman Dare International Performance Scholarship (PDIPS) and with it “the opportunity of a lifetime” she says. Read More »

Villa Maria Cult-Couture 2010 Call for Entries

Arts Auckland South — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:02:57 +1200

Villa Maria Estate and Manukau City Council welcome entries for the ninth Villa Maria Cult-Couture fashion design awards.

The awards and show, presented as part of the Manukau Festival of Arts, celebrate creative excellence and the idea of fashion as art. Read More »

V48 Hours Unitec Study Award

Unitec New Zealand — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:32:48 +1200

Yamin Tun has always wanted to direct films since she was a young child. Now she is one step closer to seeing this become a reality after winning the Unitec V48 Hours Study Award.
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Unitec's V48 Hours Study Award

Unitec New Zealand — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:11:32 +1200

Participants in this year’s V48 Hours filmmaking competition are being offered an opportunity to win a year of study at Unitec with all their fees paid for. Read More »

The NZSA/Pindar Publishing Prize Shortlist

NZ Society of Authors — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:53:29 +1200

The judges have read their way through the staggering 508 applications received for the inaugural NZSA/Pindar Publishing Prize and have completed what has been an extremely difficult task. They have come up with a short list of five manuscripts. Read More »

RIANZ Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards adds Pop category

The Big Idea Editor — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:26:03 +1200

Nominations for the 45th annual RIANZ Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards are set to open – and for the first time a Tui is being awarded for the best Pop album.

RIANZ chief executive Campbell Smith says the addition of the new category mirrors the growth of the awards and broadens the scope of the genre-based award categories, reflecting the continuing growth of New Zealand music. Read More »

Pettman Dare International Performance Scholarship

Caroline Nelson — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:51:50 +1200

A groundbreaking new scholarship is giving talented and ambitious young New Zealand arts practitioners an unrivalled career opportunity in music theatre. Read More »

First DocLab a success

CoLab — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:35:32 +1300

DOC Lab 2010 was initiated to act as an incubator and workshop with mentoring and feedback for new documentary proposals. Read More »

BDO Northland Painting/Drawing Award 2010

Creative Northland — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:55:35 +1300

ArtsXL are proud to announce that the second BDO Northland Painting/Drawing Award 2010 will be held in November. The Award, first held in 2007, seeks to endorse and promote the immense talent of Northland artists. Read More »

NorthTec students showcase sculptural glass art

NorthTec — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:50:15 +1300

A joint exhibition at Auckland’s Lane Gallery is the latest success in a string of achievements for a graduate and current student from Northec’s Kerikeri campus. Read More »

Portrait Finalist Catherine Sinclair

The Learning Connexion — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:50:17 +1300

The Learning Connexion student Catherine Sinclair certainly likes to insert her sense of humour into her work. Read More »

Earth Hour Eco-Innovations

WWF-New Zealand — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:28:34 +1300

'No Frills, Just Refills', a social and product innovation that revisits the old fashioned refillable glass milk bottle, has won the 'Eco-Innovations' student design competition. Read More »

Northland artists honoured

NorthTec — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:30:22 +1300

The NorthTec Council awarded an institutional medal to Allen Wihongi and Douglas Chowns and an honorary fellowship to Mike Sanderson at its graduation ceremonies recently. Read More »

Calling New Zealand Short Filmmakers

Gina Dellabarca — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:47:28 +1300

The Show Me Shorts Film Festival is now calling for entries. The deadline is 5pm Monday the 5th of July.

This annual national short film festival plays Kiwi and Australian short films between three and 30 minutes long, made within the last three years. Read More »

Big A Awards 2010

Arts Access Aotearoa — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:00:17 +1300

Arts Access Aotearoa is seeking nominations for the Big ‘A’ Awards 2010 to celebrate individuals and organisations working to enhance the lives of people with limited opportunities to access the arts. Read More »

Visual arts student awarded scholarship

carmen_rogers — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:57:52 +1300

Carmen Rogers, a student of the Bachelor of Visual
Arts, Fine Art strand at WITT, has just been awarded a scholarship for high achievement in her
studies.

The scholarship was granted by the national Betty Loughhead Soroptimists Trust. Read More »

A Competitive Edge

The Documentary New Zealand Trust — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:47:26 +1300

The Documentary Edge Festival is delighted to announce that the awards night will be held on March 3rd, the shortlist of “Best Documentary” films have already been decided in both the International and New Zealand competition. Although there can only be one winner in each category, the shortlist itself is a testament to the strength of this year’s festival. Read More »

Judges announced for NZSA/Pindar Publishing Prize

NZ Society of Authors — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:48:19 +1300

The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.) in association with Pindar, Whitcoulls, The NZ Herald and Astra Print are delighted to announce the judges of the inaugural NZSA/Pindar Publishing Prize. Read More »

Dulux Colour Awards open for NZ entries

DULUX — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:22:19 +1300

Leading paint manufacturer, Dulux has revealed an impressive judging panel for the 2010 Dulux Colour Awards, which will be held in Melbourne, Australia in late March.

The Dulux Colour Awards, which close for entry on February 19, are the premiere showcase for the creative use of colour in architecture and interior design. Read More »

No.8 Wire Art Award entries open

ArtsPost — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:15:56 +1300

Entries are now open for the Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award 2010 – an award that challenges artists to use their creativity and ingenuity to transform the difficult medium of no.8 wire into works of art. Read More »

Adam Prize goes to exploration of ‘awkwardness’

International Institute of Modern Letters — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:17:46 +1300

For the first time the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing has been awarded to a work of creative non-fiction.

Victoria University student Ashleigh Young has won the award for her personal essay collection Can you tolerate this?
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The 2010 NZSA/Pindar Publishing Prize

NZ Society of Authors — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:53:20 +1300

The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.), in association with Pindar NZ, Whitcoulls, Astra Print Group, the New Zealand Herald and Creative New Zealand are proud to announce the launch of the 'NZSA Pindar Publishing Prize'. Read More »

The Creative Adventures of James Brown: Part Eight

The Learning Connexion — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:54:48 +1300

In Part 8 of The Creative Adventures of James Brown, James finds out his work has made the Wallace Art Awards final selection. He packs up his painting and delivers it to the Wallace Trust Gallery. Read More »

The Creative Adventures of James Brown: Part Six

The Learning Connexion — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:30:54 +1300

In Part 6 of The Creative Adventures of James Brown, he talks us through some of the challenges he faced when working on the large scale painting that he enters into the 2009 Wallace Art Awards. Read More »

Billboard offers window on Manukau’s young creatives

Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:46:23 +1300

A major opportunity for the finalists of the 2009’s Manukau Youth Art Awards was up for grabs on Saturday 31 October in the field outside the TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre. The opportunity was for the winner to have their art work displayed on a super sized motorway billboard. Read More »

Honorary doctorate for Hairy Maclary author

The Big Idea Editor — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:39:07 +1300

One of New Zealand’s best known children’s authors, Lynley Dodd, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Waikato. Read More »

Design win-win at BeST Awards

Wellington Institute of Technology — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:40:12 +1300

Interior design students Emily Pita and Charmaine Smit achieved a double award win for Wellington Institute of Technology at this year’s BeST Design Awards. Read More »

iD Dunedin Emerging Designer Awards applications

Strategy First Ltd — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:25:35 +1300

The iD Dunedin Emerging Designer Awards new jewellery design section seeks original and innovative submissions.

The organising committee of this iconic fashion event has made a commitment to next year’s fashion week. The 2010 iD Dunedin Emerging Designer Awards, held in New Zealand are now open for applications from around the world, with an exciting new jewellery design section. Read More »

Honorary Degrees for Topp Twins

The Big Idea Editor — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:24:41 +1300

New Zealand entertainers the Topp Twins will receive honorary degrees from Wintec (Waikato Institute of Technology). Read More »

RISE Youth Grants Programme

RISE — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:10:46 +1300

Young people understand the challenges that face other young people better than anyone else.

The RISE programme supports youth led projects that help to reduce stigma and discrimination and promote good mental health and wellbeing to other young people. Read More »

National Youth Art Awards

The Big Idea Editor — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:47:54 +1200

UCOL Quay School of the Arts alumnus Ben Pearce has taken first place in the inaugural National Youth Art Awards. Read More »

Ceramic award entries criticised

Lopdell House Gallery — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:24:37 +1200

The Portage Ceramic Awards judge has given many entrants a ‘can do better mark’ and has questioned the lack of serious tertiary ceramic education in New Zealand as a means for artists to learn. Read More »

Secondary Schools Photography Competition results

Aliah Jan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:54:00 +1200

Wanganui High School won both the Ilford Shield and the Len Casbolt Memorial Trophy for the 40th Anniversary of the Ilford Shield Secondary Schools Photography Competition this year. Read More »

New Writers' Award

NZ Society of Authors — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:37:10 +1200

For the first time, in 2009, the New Zealand Society of Authors together with the Manchester Trust is proud to be able to offer an award to recognise the oeuvre of published work by a mid-career writer. The purpose of the award is to offer recognition to an author who may not necessarily have previously achieved a high level of publicity for their work. Read More »

Glaistor Ennor Graduate Art Awards

Matthew Carter — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:20:48 +1200

Matthew Carter won the Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Awards 2009, held at OREX Art, Oedipus Rex Gallery in Khartoum Place, Central Auckland last week. He is a graduate from AUT university and is now studying further at AUT. Read More »

Maori authors win inaugural book awards

The Big Idea Editor — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:51:50 +1200

Books about Maori written by Maori were the resounding choice of hundreds of voters in Massey’s Inaugural Nga Kupu Ora Book Awards.

Kaihautu Maori (Maori library services manager) Spencer Lilley says the idea for organising book awards recognising Maori literature was as a result of other major book awards consistently failing to include Maori items in their awards. Read More »

Silent oral history signs the way ahead

The Big Idea Editor — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:53:06 +1200

Oral history in New Zealand will break new ground following this year’s allocation of awards for recording memories and life stories. For the first time a video oral history project will be recorded in New Zealand’s sign language, the country’s third official language, with money given to members of the deaf community. Read More »