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No. 8 Wire National Art Award
The New Zealand National Fieldays Society is proud to sponsor the No8 Wire National Art Award, organised by Waikato Museum and ArtsPost Galleries. Click here to go to the Waikato Museum website.
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 getter Gaye Jurisich from Hamilton receiving $1000 for ‘Phasmida’.
The winning entries will now be exhibited alongside the other 12 finalists at Hamilton’s ArtsPost Art Galleries and Shop until 18 July.
The Judge – Dr Carole Shepheard
Carole Shepheard was a Professor of Fine Arts at The University of Auckland until 2007 when she left to live permanently in Kawhia. She set up Te Puti Studio to continue her practice but also for teaching and community art purposes. Carole has exhibited both nationally and internationally with her art in all major New Zealand Art collections including the Auckland Art Gallery and Te Papa Tongarewa. In 1991 she was made a Commonwealth International Woman of the Year; in 2002 an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit and in 2004 gained her Doctorate of Fine Arts. She is an independent curator, arts consultant and writer.
Congratulations the 2011 winner, Donna Sarten for her winning sculpture 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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