LEADING CONTEMPORARY ART AUTHORITY TO JUDGE
NATIONAL PAINTING AND PRINTMAKING AWARD 2011
Warwick Brown, well known author, lecturer, artist and consultant on contemporary art will judge New Zealand’s 11th annual Painting and Printmaking Award to be held in Hamilton in February 2011.
“Each year, the single most important decision of our committee is to select an outstanding judge, who will signal to contestants the standard of work expected in this important event,” says spokesperson Pam Nash. “Warwick brings a lifetime’s interest and knowledge in this field, and we are delighted to have him accept this position.” Warwick’s most recent book, published in 2009 is ‘Seen this Century: 100 Contemporary New Zealand Artists’.
Entries in the Award, which is open to any New Zealand person, close on October 8th. With a first prize of $20,000 plus purchase of the winning work by principal sponsors, the Philip Vela Family Trust, this lucrative Award attracts artists from throughout the country. Beginning with 2000 winner Gavin Hipkins, the event has served to springboard the careers of many now well-known artists, and the exhibition of finalists’ work in the Pavilion, Hamilton Gardens, is viewed by several thousand visitors each February during the Hamilton Gardens Summer Festival.
Download entry form, rules and conditions, or get a printed copy from the Waikato Society of Arts: ArtsPost 120 Victoria Street, Hamilton.