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No. 8 Wire National Art Award
Challenging artists to create 3-dimensional artwork predominantly using No.8 Wire as the sculpting medium, this competition produces incredible, complex and unique designs.
The New Zealand National Fieldays Society is proud to sponsor the No.8 Wire National Art Award, which is organised by Waikato Museum and ArtsPost Galleries.
Key 2012 Dates
- Entry opens: Tuesday 15th November
- Entry closes: Thursday 26th April 2012 - no late entries accepted
- Award Ceremony and Opening Event at ArtsPost Galleries: Thursday 7th June 2012 at 6 pm
- Exhibition Open at ArtsPost Galleries: 8th June - 16th July 2012
Prizes
1st Prize - $4000
2nd Prize - $1500
3rd Prize - $1000
President’s Award - $300
People’s Choice Prize - $100 ArtsPost voucher
Competition Entry
To download the 2012 Entry Form and conditions of entry; Click here to go to the Waikato Museum website
Check it out
All finalists and winners art will be exhibited at ArtsPost from 8th June – 16th July 2012. Each unique and original piece created using this iconic New Zealand material will be available to purchase.
The New Zealand National Fieldays Society is proud to sponsor the No.8 Wire National Art Award, organised by Waikato Museum and ArtsPost Galleries. Click here to go to the Waikato Museum website.
2012 Judge
This year well-known corrugated iron sculptor Jeff Thomson will judge the Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award. Jeff Thomson has exhibited throughout Germany, France, Australia and New Zealand and his work is in many public and private collections world-wide.
Since completing a BFA at Elam School of fine Arts, University of Auckland in 1981 he has worked predominantly with corrugated iron. Thomson is currently working on a number of noise walls for highways in north-west Auckland. When completed, this artwork, spanning several hundred metres, will be one of the largest arts projects in the country.
For more information about Jeff Thomson, visit www.jeffthomson.co.nz
2012 Press Releases
Read official Fieldays No8 Wire Art Award press releases for the latest news; please click here
2011 Competition
Congratulations to Donna Sarten for her contemporary piece Unsolved. As the winner Sarten receives $4000 in prize money for her entry ‘Unsolved’, with second place recipient William Jameson from Napier receiving $1500 for ‘Wire Waka’ and third place receiver Gaye Jurisich from Hamilton receiving $1000 for ‘Phasmida’.
The winning entries were exhibited alongside the other 12 finalists at Hamilton’s ArtsPost Art Galleries and Shop from 9th June – 18th July 2011. For more information about the 2011 competition Click here to go to the Waikato Museum website.
2011 winner, Donna Sarten Unsolved.
Donna Sarten is a Masters graduate form Elam School of Fine Art who works in a range of media from photography to installation. Sarten’s work investigates various contemporary power relations including psychological, social and geo-political; and often asks us to think about things that are often pushed aside and not talked about. Her topics include aspects of war and child abuse. Donna Sarten was the joint winner of the Waikato Contemporary Art Award 2004 and has exhibited at The Sculpture Park @ Waitakaruru Arboretum.
Check out the People's Choice and Presidents Award winner, 'The Hedgehog' by Arthur Mahutariki here.
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