Auckland artist wins the prestigious 2024 Walker & Hall Waiheke Art AwardAuckland based artist Sonja Drake is the winner of the prestigious 2024 Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Award. The $10,000 non-acquisitive prize was announced at the Gala Award Ceremony event at Waiheke Community Art Gallery on Saturday 19 October.
Drake writes of her work titled Drawn in Sediment‘We shape the world in ways visible and invisible. There is a woundedness above and below the surface of the land. In the waterways, aquifers, the sea, and the bird, insect, plant, and animal life, human impact on our environment is not separate from us; it is part of us.’ A total of 141 entries were received from across Aotearoa, with 34 works selected for the finalists’ exhibition. This year’s selector and judge was Mary-Louise Browne. Browne writes of the selection. 'The finalists have provided us with a wonderful mix of works reflecting different sensibilities and it was no easy task to settle on the category winners. A good many of them we could say were second equal in all four categories. Art competitions have always opened to mixed reviews but hopefully viewers can look beyond this and see the inclusive spirit that underlies the exhibition. From its beginnings the Walker & Hall Award has encouraged a sense of objectivity to all the styles that at any moment make up the totality of contemporary art. The richness of the artists investigations indicates that some of the right questions are being asked at the right time resulting in a robust cross section of ideas and artworks.’ more..https://artnow.nz/news/auckland-artist-wins-the-prestigious-2024-walker-hall-waiheke-art-award Comments are closed.
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