Interest Widespread For 2011 Whanganui National

Interest Widespread For 2011 Whanganui National

Call for entries have been made nationwide since May for the 2011 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards. The exhibition and the Best in Show Award are presented by the Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust, with support from The Lion Foundation, Creative Communities NZ Wanganui District, Optiv101 Fine Arts and Multimedia Studios, Pub Charity and Mickey's Superliquor as sponsors. More sponsors are to be announced soon.

The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust promotes the fine arts in New Zealand. As a leading city in training and nurturing it's artists, Wanganui takes its place as one of the movers and shakers in contemporary New Zealand art annually with this exhibition and the awards.

Trust secretary Esther Topfer says that interest is wide-ranging. "We see that the Whanganui National is hitting the radar for artists all over New Zealand, so we are expecting good turnouts from across the regions", she says.

Recent works are encouraged with the criteria of being made in the last twelve months. By presenting the Best in Show award and Certificates of Merit, the Trust promotes and encourages a career in the arts for the winning artists with these national awards.

The judges for this year's competition are Aucklander Dane Pace, a painter recently graduated from Unitech's School of Visual Design, mixed media artist and arts lecturer Andrea Du Chatenier of Whanganui, and Neil Buddle, trustee and printmaker, also of Whanganui.

The exhibition overall is more particularly an important venue for all of the works submitted, being a showcase of New Zealand artists. The annual Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards aims to promote New Zealand artists and New Zealand contemporary arts, and to bring new arts experiences to Wanganui. The trust looks forward to showing an exhibition of New Zealand artists in the city.

Receiving Days for entries into the 2011 Whanganui National Art Exihibtion and Awards are fast approaching.

Receiving Days
September 5 to 7, 2011,
10.30am to 4.00pm
Wanganui Community Arts Centre,
19 Taupo Quay, Wanganui

Opening Function
September 9, 2011, 5pm

Exhibition Hours
September 10 to October 2, 2011
Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm, Sunday 10am to 4pm

Entry forms can be downloaded from www.24bar7.com

or contact
Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Award Trust,
PO Box 7318, Wanganui 4541,
email: contact@24bar7.com
mobile: 021 296 4451

New Sponsor for the 2011 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards

The Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards Trust is pleased to announce a new sponsor for this year's award exhibition.

Pub Charity has come on board, joining our current sponsors for this year's event.


We would like to thank Pub Charity, Creative Communities Wanganui District, The Lion Foundation, Mickey's Superliquor, and Optiv101 Fine Arts and Multimedia Studios for their support of the 2011 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards.


Those artists who are interested in submitting a work, can download an entry form from http://www.24bar7.com

Entry Open for 2011 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards

The 2011 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards entry form has been released for artists aiming to submit to the competition in September. The exhibition is open to all artists living and working in New Zealand.

The 2011 Entry form is available online from www.24bar7.com and http://media.tripod.lycos.com/1855353/1725408.pdf.

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 of $100 each.

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.

Receiving days are September 5 to 7, 2011 at the Wanganui Community Arts Centre .The Awards Presentation will be made at the opening function on September 9, 2011. The the exhibition runs till October 2 at the Wanganui Community Arts Centre, 19 Taupo Quay, Wanganui.

The Trust is grateful for the sponsorships from the Wanganui District Creative Communities NZ, Lion Foundation, Optiv101 Fine Arts and Multimedia Studios, and Mickey’s, in presenting the 2011 Whanganui National Art Exhibition and Awards. New sponsors will be announced soon.