Sponsors Coming Onboard as Whanganui National Approaches
New sponsors have come onboard as the 2012 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards approaches with less than two months to go before the exhibition opens at the Wanganui Community Arts Centre in August.
Pub Charity and Creative Communities Wanganui District have joined Optiv101 Fine Arts and Multimedia Studios, The United Lodge of Wanganui No.468, and Mickey's Superliquor in bringing this year's event.
Receiving days are from August 20 to 22, 10.30am to 4pm, at the Wanganui Community Arts Centre, 19 Taupo Quay, Whanganui. Entry forms are available for download from http://www.24bar7.com/.
The Opening Function and Awards Presentation will be August 23 at 5pm. Printmakers and painters Aaron Potaka and Pat Cush of Whanganui, and Sheyne Tuffery, a multimedia artist from Wellington, are the judges selecting the Best in Show, and Certificates of Merit.
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Saturday, June 30, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
2012 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards
2012 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards
The 2012 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards entry form has been released for artists aiming to submit to the competition in August. The exhibition is open to all artists living and working in New Zealand.
Entry forms are available online from http://www.24bar7.com/
The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust are the conveners of the exhibition. The trustees are pleased with the growing recognition of the event. The Best in Show Award includes a $500 prize. Two Certificates of Merit carry a prize $100.
The judges for the 2012 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards are Aaron Potaka, trustee and a Whanganui printmaker, Pat Cush, a Whanganui painter, and Sheyne Tuffery of Wellington, a printmaker. The judges will select the Best in Show Award and two Certificates of Merit winners.
The competition is designed to create a national platform for visual artists in painting, printmaking, photography, glass production, sculpture and mixed media, and to build relationships between the national arts sector and the Whanganui arts community. The Whanganui National is a competition where New Zealand artists and arts are supported by the art conscious public of this city, and acknowledge the talent of the country’s artists with awards.
The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust are pleased with the growth of the Award Exhibition, with artists from across New Zealand entering.
Receiving days are August 20 to 22, 2012 at the Wanganui Community Arts Centre, 19 Taupo Quay, Wanganui
The Awards Presentation will be made at the opening function at the Wanganui Community Arts Centre on Thursday, August 23, 2012. The the exhibition runs till September 14.
The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust are pleased with the growth of the Award Exhibition, with artists from across New Zealand entering.
The Trust is grateful for the sponsorships to date from the United Lodge of Wanganui No. 468, Optiv101 Fine Arts and Multimedia Studios, and Mickey’s, in presenting the 2012 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards.
The 2012 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards entry form has been released for artists aiming to submit to the competition in August. The exhibition is open to all artists living and working in New Zealand.
Entry forms are available online from http://www.24bar7.com/
The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust are the conveners of the exhibition. The trustees are pleased with the growing recognition of the event. The Best in Show Award includes a $500 prize. Two Certificates of Merit carry a prize $100.
The judges for the 2012 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards are Aaron Potaka, trustee and a Whanganui printmaker, Pat Cush, a Whanganui painter, and Sheyne Tuffery of Wellington, a printmaker. The judges will select the Best in Show Award and two Certificates of Merit winners.
The competition is designed to create a national platform for visual artists in painting, printmaking, photography, glass production, sculpture and mixed media, and to build relationships between the national arts sector and the Whanganui arts community. The Whanganui National is a competition where New Zealand artists and arts are supported by the art conscious public of this city, and acknowledge the talent of the country’s artists with awards.
The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust are pleased with the growth of the Award Exhibition, with artists from across New Zealand entering.
Receiving days are August 20 to 22, 2012 at the Wanganui Community Arts Centre, 19 Taupo Quay, Wanganui
The Awards Presentation will be made at the opening function at the Wanganui Community Arts Centre on Thursday, August 23, 2012. The the exhibition runs till September 14.
The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust are pleased with the growth of the Award Exhibition, with artists from across New Zealand entering.
The Trust is grateful for the sponsorships to date from the United Lodge of Wanganui No. 468, Optiv101 Fine Arts and Multimedia Studios, and Mickey’s, in presenting the 2012 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Trust Invites Public to Open Studio
Trust Invites Public to Open Studio
The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust is excited about participating in the 2012 Whanganui Artists Open Studios in March. It is a proactive way to promote Trust events and activities, as well as engage the public in demonstrations in painting and printmaking and other disciplines.
The trust was set up in 2010 to convene the annual Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards, and has a group of enthusiastic arts and business practitioners as Trustees. Having the awards show grow each year has prompted the trust to expand its activities to engage more with the wider community, and that includes the Open Studio.
Trust chairman Aaron Potaka is pleased to be able to have the trustees, as working artists and business mentors, participating in Open Studio. "What is really apparent from the buzz coming from the trustees is the excitement of directly engaging the public through their art making and promoting", he says.
Mr Potaka says it is important for the trust that the public sees art in process, from blank canvases and papers to finished works. "That way visitors have a real insight into art making and build a rapport with the artists and their works, away from the gallery environment where that relationship is less intimate."
The trustees consist of Aaron Potaka as a printmaker and painter, Neil Buddle working in printmaking and mixed media assemblage, Esther Topfer as mixed media artist and printmaker, Sandra Louwrens de Kock working with painting media, whilst Bernie Steyn is a fine arts student. Ariki Toru is responsible for trust development and marketing.
The Trust Open Studio will have an Exhibition of Trustees showing the works of the trustees, as well as the working studio, with the possibility of workshops for visitors in painting and printmaking.
Visitors can learn about what the Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust does, upcoming Trust events and activities, and the promotion of New Zealand contemporary fine arts. "We are really looking forward to entertaining, enlightening and engaging with our visitors to send them of with a behind-the-scenes look and hands-on participation in art making, and a better appreciation of art practice", Mr Potaka says.
The 2012 Whanganui Artists Open Studios is on 17th, 18th, 24th and 25th of March.
The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust Open Studio is located on Level One, the Old Chronicle Building, 22 Drews Ave, Whanganui, and open from 10am to 4pm.
Thanks to Optiv101 Fine Arts and Multimedia Studios, Mathathane Studio, and the Whanganui Arts Marketing and Development Trust for their support.
The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust is excited about participating in the 2012 Whanganui Artists Open Studios in March. It is a proactive way to promote Trust events and activities, as well as engage the public in demonstrations in painting and printmaking and other disciplines.
The trust was set up in 2010 to convene the annual Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards, and has a group of enthusiastic arts and business practitioners as Trustees. Having the awards show grow each year has prompted the trust to expand its activities to engage more with the wider community, and that includes the Open Studio.
Trust chairman Aaron Potaka is pleased to be able to have the trustees, as working artists and business mentors, participating in Open Studio. "What is really apparent from the buzz coming from the trustees is the excitement of directly engaging the public through their art making and promoting", he says.
Mr Potaka says it is important for the trust that the public sees art in process, from blank canvases and papers to finished works. "That way visitors have a real insight into art making and build a rapport with the artists and their works, away from the gallery environment where that relationship is less intimate."
The trustees consist of Aaron Potaka as a printmaker and painter, Neil Buddle working in printmaking and mixed media assemblage, Esther Topfer as mixed media artist and printmaker, Sandra Louwrens de Kock working with painting media, whilst Bernie Steyn is a fine arts student. Ariki Toru is responsible for trust development and marketing.
The Trust Open Studio will have an Exhibition of Trustees showing the works of the trustees, as well as the working studio, with the possibility of workshops for visitors in painting and printmaking.
Visitors can learn about what the Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust does, upcoming Trust events and activities, and the promotion of New Zealand contemporary fine arts. "We are really looking forward to entertaining, enlightening and engaging with our visitors to send them of with a behind-the-scenes look and hands-on participation in art making, and a better appreciation of art practice", Mr Potaka says.
The 2012 Whanganui Artists Open Studios is on 17th, 18th, 24th and 25th of March.
The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust Open Studio is located on Level One, the Old Chronicle Building, 22 Drews Ave, Whanganui, and open from 10am to 4pm.
Thanks to Optiv101 Fine Arts and Multimedia Studios, Mathathane Studio, and the Whanganui Arts Marketing and Development Trust for their support.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Optiv101 Supporting Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust
Optiv101 Supporting Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust
Trustees of the Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust will be exhibiting their works and demonstrating their art practices in the Whanganui Artists Open Studios 2012 (17 & 18 and 24 & 25 March 2012).
Aaron Potaka, Chairman, is a printmaker and painter, Neil Buddle, Treasurer, works in printmaking and mixed media assemblage, Esther Topfer, Secretary, uses mixed media and printmaking, Sandra Louwrens de Kock, Trustee, works with painting media, and Bernie Steyn, Trustee, is a fine arts student.
Learn what the Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust does to promote New Zealand contemporary fine arts.
Level One, Old Chronicle Building, 22 Drews Ave, Whanganui.
Thanks to Optiv101 Fine Arts and Multimedia Studios for their support.
Trustees of the Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust will be exhibiting their works and demonstrating their art practices in the Whanganui Artists Open Studios 2012 (17 & 18 and 24 & 25 March 2012).
Aaron Potaka, Chairman, is a printmaker and painter, Neil Buddle, Treasurer, works in printmaking and mixed media assemblage, Esther Topfer, Secretary, uses mixed media and printmaking, Sandra Louwrens de Kock, Trustee, works with painting media, and Bernie Steyn, Trustee, is a fine arts student.
Learn what the Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust does to promote New Zealand contemporary fine arts.
Level One, Old Chronicle Building, 22 Drews Ave, Whanganui.
Thanks to Optiv101 Fine Arts and Multimedia Studios for their support.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Whanganui Artists Take Treble
Whanganui Artists Take Treble
Whanganui artists were a winning treble at the 2011 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards where artists were showing from Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Whanganui, Wairarapa, Wellington, and Otago.
In a strong local line up amongst the 48 artists on display, Pam Sears won through with her mixed media sculpture Nappy Brain to take the Best in Show Award. Alice Kim with her drawing Mind Map and Bernie Steyn with his painting Sentinel claimed Certificates of Merit.
The exhibition is showing until October 2 at the Wanganui Community Arts Centre, and was opened on Friday evening by Esther Topfer, secretary of conveners The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust. Earlier in the afternoon, judges Neil Buddle and Andrea Du Chatenier both of Whanganui, and Dane Pace of Auckland attended a preview session to choose the prize winners.
Ms Du Chatenier said that Ms Sears’ work was chosen Best in Show for the use of media, the concept of a new mother and her baby adjusting hormonally and emotionally to literal life changes, and the way she realised her work as a skull presented on a plinth to have a certain presence in the room.
Mr Buddle said that judges were overwhelmed by the intensity of Ms Kim’s Mind Map in scale, colour, patterns, and rhythms of the work. Ms Kim’s Certificate of Merit was presented to her son James in her absence. He said that she would be very pleased with the acknowledgement of her work by the judges and would like to thank the other artists for participating in the Whanganui National.
Bernie Steyn was also absent at the presentation. Mr Pace said that judges were impressed with the capturing of the dynamic changing of light in his landscape under a sunrise. The colour theory was well considered, a deep green and ochre of the land to launch a vibrancy of white and orange in the sky.
Ms Topfer said that the trust is pleased with the growing uptake nationally for the show with this exhibition being the biggest yet with forty-eight artists with five trustees and judges exhibiting as well.
“The Whanganui National is about artists from across New Zealand competing and aiming for their personal bests each time. It is good for us as artists and audience that we see the best from other artists, because we get new standards to reference from and we see what is happening elsewhere,” she says.
Ms Topfer said that it is a trust policy that the judges show to exhibit their credentials, and, the trustees as practicing artists also show to encourage fine arts as a path to youth and young people to engage the community
Ms Topfer said that the Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust is thankful for all its volunteers in the exhibition that takes over six months to implement. All that work is realised into a week of receipt and handling of works, and the last few hours of hanging the works before the judging session and opening.
“We hope that all our volunteers have gained some experience and insight into exhibition production. However, without them participating freely, we could not have done this in those months and few final hours. They play a big part in the Whanganui National when it matters,” she says.
Ms Topfer said that the trust is grateful for the support of their sponsors for their aid in bringing New Zealand art to Whanganui. “Our thanks to Creative Communities NZ Wanganui District, The Lion Foundation, Optiv101 Fine Arts and Multimedia Studios, Pub Charity, The United Lodge of Wanganui No. 468, The Trusts Charitable Foundation, and Mickey’s Superliquor”.
Whanganui artists were a winning treble at the 2011 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards where artists were showing from Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Whanganui, Wairarapa, Wellington, and Otago.
In a strong local line up amongst the 48 artists on display, Pam Sears won through with her mixed media sculpture Nappy Brain to take the Best in Show Award. Alice Kim with her drawing Mind Map and Bernie Steyn with his painting Sentinel claimed Certificates of Merit.
The exhibition is showing until October 2 at the Wanganui Community Arts Centre, and was opened on Friday evening by Esther Topfer, secretary of conveners The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust. Earlier in the afternoon, judges Neil Buddle and Andrea Du Chatenier both of Whanganui, and Dane Pace of Auckland attended a preview session to choose the prize winners.
Ms Du Chatenier said that Ms Sears’ work was chosen Best in Show for the use of media, the concept of a new mother and her baby adjusting hormonally and emotionally to literal life changes, and the way she realised her work as a skull presented on a plinth to have a certain presence in the room.
Mr Buddle said that judges were overwhelmed by the intensity of Ms Kim’s Mind Map in scale, colour, patterns, and rhythms of the work. Ms Kim’s Certificate of Merit was presented to her son James in her absence. He said that she would be very pleased with the acknowledgement of her work by the judges and would like to thank the other artists for participating in the Whanganui National.
Bernie Steyn was also absent at the presentation. Mr Pace said that judges were impressed with the capturing of the dynamic changing of light in his landscape under a sunrise. The colour theory was well considered, a deep green and ochre of the land to launch a vibrancy of white and orange in the sky.
Ms Topfer said that the trust is pleased with the growing uptake nationally for the show with this exhibition being the biggest yet with forty-eight artists with five trustees and judges exhibiting as well.
“The Whanganui National is about artists from across New Zealand competing and aiming for their personal bests each time. It is good for us as artists and audience that we see the best from other artists, because we get new standards to reference from and we see what is happening elsewhere,” she says.
Ms Topfer said that it is a trust policy that the judges show to exhibit their credentials, and, the trustees as practicing artists also show to encourage fine arts as a path to youth and young people to engage the community
Ms Topfer said that the Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust is thankful for all its volunteers in the exhibition that takes over six months to implement. All that work is realised into a week of receipt and handling of works, and the last few hours of hanging the works before the judging session and opening.
“We hope that all our volunteers have gained some experience and insight into exhibition production. However, without them participating freely, we could not have done this in those months and few final hours. They play a big part in the Whanganui National when it matters,” she says.
Ms Topfer said that the trust is grateful for the support of their sponsors for their aid in bringing New Zealand art to Whanganui. “Our thanks to Creative Communities NZ Wanganui District, The Lion Foundation, Optiv101 Fine Arts and Multimedia Studios, Pub Charity, The United Lodge of Wanganui No. 468, The Trusts Charitable Foundation, and Mickey’s Superliquor”.
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