This year's Art Awards run by WSA
Judge's Floor Talk August 4th @ 1.30pm in the ArtsPost gallery
Margaret Aull will share her thoughts on the 2019 NYAA finalists. Art lovers are welcome to hear the process and thinking that Margaret applied as she selected the finalists and winners for these Awards. This is a one-off opportunity to experience this exhibition from the view point of the Judge.
Free event
Margaret Aull will share her thoughts on the 2019 NYAA
finalists at the ArtsPost Gallery.
Art lovers are welcome to hear the process and thinking
that Margaret applied as she selected the finalists and winner of this
Award. This is a one-off opportunity to experience this national
exhibition from the viewpoint of the judge.
Proudly supported by the Waikato Society of Arts.
Free event
2019 NATIONAL YOUTH ART AWARDS - NYAA 2019
2019 National Youth Art Award
Waikato Society of Arts Annual
National Youth Art Award 2019
18 July – 19 August
ArtsPost Gallery, Hamilton
It is with much excitement that the Waikato Society of Arts along with
our chief sponsor Midland MRI can announce that the finalists for our 10th
year of competition have been chosen, with a record number of 140 entries.
Hamilton has been the host for this award for the past ten years, the
only award in New Zealand exclusive to talented young artists. Prizes totalling
$6000 along with Gordon Harris People’s Choice award of $250 and a special Print award from the Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand of $500.
All young artists in New Zealand between the ages of 15 and 25 are
invited to enter this prestigious competition.
This is a selected show and we are honoured to announce our judge this
year will be Margaret Aull, formerly
from Tumu Herenga Toi - Curator Manager Ahua Gallery at New Zealand
Māori Arts & Crafts Institute, before this she was Poutiaki Toi
- Art Collection Curator at Te Wānanga o
Aotearoa. Margaret Aull studied her Masters of Fine Arts at Whitecliffe
College of Arts and Design, in Auckland.
The 83 finalists will have their work on show to the public, for a month,
at ArtsPost Gallery, Hamilton, with an Opening and Awards evening at 5.30pm on
the 18th of July.
This award is open to independent artists as well as students who are
prepared to jump the boundaries of their curriculum.
Original visual art work that is unique, imaginative, delightful and
thought-provoking is welcome.
ENTRIES CLOSED JUNE 14TH, 2019.
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