molly morpeth canaday award painting and drawing
2021
welcome to the molly morpeth canaday award molly morpeth painting drawing canaday and award painting and drawing As we emerge from a most tumultuous and disruptive year, we must take time to appreciate where we are… as individuals and a nation… to be able to continue life in relative normality. That Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards can continue is a privilege we should not minimise… as art lives within. As artists, we are born from different cultures, but united in our will to express our art through creativity and emotion to others. As artists, we are uncluttered… as a child… so should be our expression of art. This award is a showcase of that.I know I speak for all trustees in that we are delighted to be performing in the deed of the trust, to provide this major sponsorship in the MMCA awards and the relationship we have with Arts Whakatāne and Te Koputu Exhibition Gallery staff for the benefit of the arts in our community. It is also in our appreciation that other sponsors have come forward to build this award into the major event it so deserves. Long may this continue. Greg Reid Trustee - Molly Morpeth Canaday Trust
It is with great pleasure that we bring to you our 37th Art Award. The response of artists from around New Zealand confirms that the award is truly national in its coverage. As well as the fact that many wellrecognised artists have made their debut in our award has given it the status it so well deserves. I am sure you will agree that the additional sponsorship we receive from local businesses makes the award one, our entire District can rightfully own with pride. Jacqui Hughes Founder of Arts Whakatāne
2021 Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing
The organisers of this year’s Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing, Arts Whakatāne and Whakatāne District Council, are delighted to present this major national exhibition. Our appreciation goes to the judges – Guest judge, Karl Chitham, and preliminary judges Francis McWhannell, Natasha Matila-Smith and Hanahiva Rose – for their commitment to supporting artists and bringing increasingly innovative art to our community. Special thanks also go to our supporting sponsors, volunteers and the organising teams. Their collective generosity has contributed to the current status of the award as one of the most recognised art events in New Zealand. This exhibition features works by artists from Aotearoa, selected from a record-breaking number of entries by three independent Preliminary Judges. Winners have been selected by Guest Judge, Karl Chitham. Those that were selected present an exciting cross-section of contemporary works that extend beyond the practice of painting and drawing. This year, our vision is to encourage and celebrate the development of painting and drawing on a national level and reward artists who create outstanding works. The exhibition partners Arts Whakatāne and the Whakatāne District Council are heartened by the strength of commitment this demonstrates to painting and drawing, as an arts discipline, and to the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award. The inaugural art award was held in 1985 - to launch the Whakatāne Community Arts Council (now known as Arts Whakatāne). In 1991, the Molly Morpeth Canaday Trust became the principal award sponsor and gained naming rights for the exhibition and its programme. In 2012, the Award moved into Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi’s galleries, marking the beginning of the Arts Whakatāne and Whakatāne District Council partnership. This award is a non-acquisitive annual award that alternates its focus between Painting and Drawing and ThreeDimensional Art. Nichola Waugh Co-ordinator
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acknowledgments Guest Judge Karl Chitham Preliminary Judges Francis McWhannell Natasha Matila-Smith Hanahiva Rose MMCA Co-ordinator Nichola Waugh (Arts Whakatāne) Whakatāne Libraries and Galleries Exhibitions Team Tangimeriana Rua Israel Randell Amanda Perfect Jordan Davey-Emms Megan Thomson
Marketing Cherie Stevenson from Stellar Creative Marketing Photography Nichola Waugh, artist supplied Mike Kelly and Jill & Colin Harland Graphic Design Michael Hourgian Website and catalogue publication Nichola Waugh
Exhibition curator Israel Randell Entry Administration Sophie Robinson MMCA Project Team Israel Randell, Amanda Perfect Jordan Davey-Emms, Heather Hourgian David Poole, Amanda Melville, Jacqui Hughes, Pam Mossman, Patricia Long, Adrienne Ranson, Greg Reid, Christine Bowering.
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing
sponsors Major Award Sponsor Molly Morpeth Canaday Trust Award Sponsors Akel Family Hon. Anne Tolley Whakatāne Society of Arts and Craft Accounting Biz Kay and Ross Boreham
arts WHAKATANE
Support sponsors
arts WHAKATANE
Awards Molly Morpeth Canaday Trust Major Award - $10,000 Akel Award - $4,000 Arts Whakatāne Third Place - $3,000 Craigs Investment Partners Youth Award - $2,500 Robinson Law Highly Commended - $1,000 Merit Awards (all of $500 value) 4 Art Sake Gallery Merit Award Gordon Harris Merit Award Kay and Ross Boreham and Accounting Biz Local Artist Merit Award Diverse Graphics People's Choice Award Whakatāne Society of Arts and Craft & Hon. Anne Tolley Merit Award
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guest judge opening comments Expectation is a significant factor in any award process. There is the anticipation of those who have entered, the potential opinion of audiences and armchaircritics, and the prospect of critique by those in the art world. This is combined with the judging itself, which is a very subjective process that has to take into account ideas of taste, aesthetics, subject knowledge and art-form expertise. As a judge I am not looking for works I personally like or that might look good in my home, I am searching for works that have a voice and make an impact. This doesn’t necessarily mean a work has to be the loudest, largest or most accomplished or complex technically. It is more about its ability to draw you in and hold you beyond the first impression. The recipients of this year’s awards represent a diverse range of media, approaches and ideas, but what they all have in common is the unique ability to hold my attention and compel me to want to know more. Some are evocative and tell a story that is engaging and memorable, some offer an alternate perspective on existing themes or ways of working, while others propose innovative approaches that challenge the norm and push the boundaries.
Karl Chitham Guest Judge
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing
Karl Chitham (Ngā Puhi, Te Uriroroi) is the Director of The Dowse Art Museum and was previously Director and Curator of Tauranga Art Gallery - Toi Tauranga. He has also held curatorial roles at Rotorua Museum Te Whare Taonga o Te Arawa, University of Waikato, Whakatāne Museum and Gallery and Objectspace. He has a Master’s Degree in Sculpture from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University. Chitham has judged numerous regional art awards and was a judge for the 2019 Occam New Zealand Book Awards and was on the selection panel for the New Zealand Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for 2021. He was co-author of the recently published book Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and Wider Moana Oceania. Recent curatorial projects have included Ā Mua: New Lineages of Making co-curated with Kolokesa U Māhina-Tuai, Traverse: Mark Igloliorte co-curated with Wendy Richdale, and Whatu Manawa: Celebrating the Weaving of Matakino Lawless. 6–7
major award A prize of $10,000 Sponsored by Molly Morpeth Canaday Trust
Hannah Ireland Auckland They Laughed, I Cried 2020 Watercolour, ink and house paint on recycled villa window 902 x 597 x 38mm
This work was captivating from the outset. Some might think it grotesque or lacking the technical refinement to be the recipient of this major award, but it is the very urgency and emotion of the making and the evocative process of the viewing that makes this work so memorable. There is a clown-like quality to the layered application of paint, made more so by the white face and daisy motif, but this is not your happy-golucky entertainer; rather there is an intense, almost horror-like air in their haunting gaze. This dark-eyed figure seems to be contradicted by their flowery dress and bold jewellery choice, like a morose housebound captive looking desperately out into the world from their domestic prison, or alternatively, they might be looking into the home they wish they had through a rain-washed window pane. Either way there is nothing about this work that allows it to slip into the background. Karl Chitham - Guest Judge
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing
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akel award A prize of $4,000 Sponsored by the Akel family
Heidi Brickell Auckland Aohanga 2020 Cotton duck, acrylic gel medium, golden fluid acrylics, string, gesso 400 x 400mm
This work is a visually quiet painting that packs a punch in its subject matter. While the topic is very particular to the artist’s experience and personal journey, they have used their unique visual language and artmaking process to articulate some universal concepts. Open hands reaching out for acceptance or tentative hands, fingers closed in anticipation of an unknown reception; these interlinked appendages weave their way around the canvas seeking some form of union or reunion. The painted surface, punctuated by the relief line of string tracing overlapping shapes, gives the impression of camouflage - memories, connections and the histories that have yet to come to light but hidden in plain sight. Karl Chitham - Guest Judge
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing
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arts whakatāne award A prize of $3,000 Sponsored by Arts Whakatāne This prize has been jointly awarded to two works that both represent very different but equally engaging sets of ideas.
Telly Tuita Wellington Three Übermensch Of Tongpop 2020 Acrylic, pencil and pastel on cotton/nylon tupenu (sarong) 1470 x 1080mm
The first is a work that hits you with its exuberant cacophony of patterns, imagery and texture. Layers of paint combined with an unrestrained colour pallet initially dazzle and confuse the viewer but as you spend time with this work the central cast of characters move to the foreground providing a focal point and hinting at a potential narrative. This is a pure expression of popular culture – not the Americanised references to Mickey Mouse and Andy Warhol, but the lived experience of art, fashion, politics and belief that truly pervades the every day in Aotearoa and Moana Oceania. Karl Chitham - Guest Judge
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing
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Claudia Jowitt Auckland Baka IV 2020 Acrylic and spray paint with rayon yarn, Fijian vau (fibre made from hibiscus bark), copperleaf, paua shell, kina shell, cowrie shells, moulded acrylic, clay forms, and bronze powder on linen 1040 x 1040mm
The second work is a similar study in excess but from a very different perspective. Created using the familiar and for some, not so familiar tools and processes of cooking and the kitchen, this work is a study in more is more. Referencing multiple cultural traditions, it is the viewer’s job to examine and dissect the surface in order to see the carefully placed moments of discovery – tiny pieces of paua, little sparkling slivers of copper leaf and the linked network of cowrie shells. It would be easy to be caught up in the soft pastel curves, squiggles and flurries that pervade the canvas, but the real joy of this work is the small, sometimes jarring, treasures hidden in-between. Karl Chitham - Guest Judge 2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing
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craigs investment partners youth award A prize of $2,500 Sponsored by Craigs Investment Partners
Wesley John Fourie Dunedin Poems for ephemeral men 2020 Acrylic dye on cotton bedsheet with cotton and silk embroidery applique 1400 x 900mm
This is a deeply personal work that tracks the interactions of the artist with the many intimate memories and moments of their life. The muted colourways reference marks, stains and impressions that are both metaphorical and in some cases lyrical in their approach. The textual utterances scrawled across the surface of the work have obvious romantic overtones punctuated by an abundance of love hearts. While somewhat saccharine to the casual observer, this ode to love is a touching reclamation of the masculine relationship in all its unruly glory. Karl Chitham - Guest Judge
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robinson law highly commended award A prize of $1,000 sponsored by Robinson Law Rebecca Steedman Auckland Walking Drawings (Lockdown Edges) 2020 Watercolour drawings, wood-fired ceramics, bronze and silver shelf fittings 450 x 360 x 150mm
Drawing is an often underrated expression of immediacy. This work, which charted the artist’s physical and emotional boundaries during various recent periods of lockdown, is a very current reflection of how art can reflect the world around us. Rendered in the soft strokes of watercolour on paper these musings remind us of the fragility of our place on this planet and the need to appreciate everything we have. The mounting of these visual notes, slightly askew on their bespoke ceramic shelves, hints at the change and adaption required in times of crisis – things may not always be perfect but there is always an adequate and sometimes poetically beautiful workaround. Karl Chitham - Guest Judge
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing
merit award A prize of $500 Sponsored by Gordon Harris Ltd Tessa Williams Upper Hutt I am of this land 2020 Wood, glass, brass, natural pigment 200 x 400 x 300mm
The medium artists create with often takes a back seat to the idea or subject being communicated through the work. In this instance, the medium is the work and the subject untied into a single statement of intent. Reflecting many centuries of tradition and knowledge this work holds up the physical material of kōkōwai, as a concept worthy of its own study and depiction. This work indicates a considered move away from a rendering created in the image of, to a bold unapologetic declaration of the relationship we have with Papatūānuku. Karl Chitham - Guest Judge
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merit award A prize of $500 Sponsored by the Whakatāne Society Arts and Craft and Hon. Anne Tolley Formal approaches to painting are not always a consideration in this age of ideas and conceptual exploration. Yet the strength of this work is the push and pull of its composition. Mounted on a deep-set stretcher, this small canvas offers an inviting entry point to the artist’s fascination with and inspiration from food. While not immediately obvious to the viewer this unique subject matter helps create the dynamism of light and dark, complexity of forms and carefully considered markmaking that make this work so arresting. Karl Chitham - Guest Judge
Nicola Bennett Rotorua I Can’t Think of Anything I’d Rather Eat 2020 Oil and mixed media 200 x 300mm
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing
merit award A prize of $500 Sponsored by 4 Art Sake Gallery Akiko Diegel Auckland Notes 2020 0.25mm gel ink pen, 3B1 recycled notebook, Perspex box 200 x 200 x 40mm
This work reflects observations of the things we fill our lives with. Whether the foodstuffs of necessity or consumer items of desire, the artist here makes a statement about our role in the proliferation and collecting of stuff. The humble lined-notebook becomes a record of these transactions held forever in stasis. Documenting the object of study and its list of empirical data found on its packaging, this work offers a sad indictment of our contemporary lifestyles. There is also a hint, through the use of museological display devices, that this might be a way of the past rather than an indication of things to come. Karl Chitham - Guest Judge
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merit award local artist A prize of $500 Sponsored by Kay & Ross Boreham and Accounting Biz
Aimee Ratana and Maraea Timutimu Whakatāne and Tauranga Painted Whatu 2020 Paint, ink, cotton, wool, twine, and ribbon 600 x 1500mm
The intertwined, overlapped and braided strands of this work are more than a beautifully articulated reflection of Māori raranga traditions, they also reference the bringing together of ideas, peoples and histories across time, space and the limitations of geographical boundaries. Using the medium of paint as both a physical and conceptual unifying substance, the artists signal the melding of past, present and the potential of the future. Karl Chitham - Guest Judge 2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing
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preliminary judges
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing
Hanahiva Rose (Te Ātiawa, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ra’iātea, Huahine) is the assistant curator of contemporary art and collections at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in Ngāmotu New Plymouth. Hanahiva is regularly published for her research into modern and contemporary art practices in Aotearoa. She has written exhibition texts for a range of institutions, including the Dowse Art Museum, Adam Art Gallery and Enjoy Public Art Gallery, and articles for Art New Zealand, Art News, Artzone, Capital Magazine, The Spinoff, The Pantograph Punch, among others.
Natasha Matila-Smith (b1984) is an arts practitioner who lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau. Natasha holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Elam School of Fine Arts. Her curatorial and writing practice broadly explores ideas around Indigenous identities, with the aim of increasing a truer sense of agency for marginalised voices. In 2020, she was announced as the inaugural Pacific Curator-in-Residence for the Asia-Pacific Triennial 10 at QAGOMA in Brisbane. Natasha is also a writer who has contributed to national and international publications and has exhibited both locally and internationally in Rotterdam International Film Festival, Te Uru, Bus Projects, Melbourne; The Dowse Museum, Wellington.
Francis McWhannell is a writer and exhibition-maker from Aotearoa based in Tāmaki Makaurau. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Museums and Cultural Heritage and a Master of Arts in Art History from the University of Auckland. In 2019, he was appointed curator of the wellknown Fletcher Trust Collection. He is a passionate advocate for the arts and especially for early-career artists from Aotearoa. Francis has written for various arts and culture websites and publications including The Spinoff, The Pantograph Punch, Art Collector, Art New Zealand, and Art News New Zealand. He has produced essays for exhibitions at ST PAUL St Gallery and the Gus Fisher Gallery. He is co-author of two books on historical photography, Bitter fruit: Australian photographs to 1963 (2017) and Broad sunlight: Early West African photography (2020). 24–25
exhibitors Aimee Ratana and Maraea Timutimu Whakatāne and Tauranga Painted Whatu 2020 Paint, ink, cotton, wool, twine, and ribbon 600 x 1500mm $12,500 Akiko Diegel Auckland Notes 2020 0.25mm gel ink pen, 3B1 recycled notebook, Perspex box 200 x 200 x 40mm $1,000 Alex Miln Tauranga Awkward (A Cultural Bipass) 2020 Plywood and aluminium 1200 x 1500 x 70 mm $5,500 Alice Alva Wellington Bored Housewife 2020 Stranded embroidery thread, silk on suiting linen and calico 580 x 400mm $1,100
Alldon DESIGNS Auckland Untitled (unknown cookie) 2020 Oil on Canvas 1010 x 750mm $2,400 Amanda Watson Raglan Whaingaroa Raglan, April 2018 & March 2019; Near the source of the Kapuni River, Taranaki, June 2019; In my studio in Hamilton 2019 Ink, graphite, acrylic paint on canvas 1300 x 1500mm $3,100 Andrea Bolima Auckland Mauve in the corner 2020 Oil on canvas 850 x 800mm $2,150 Andrea Bolima Auckland Bluey one, this one 2020 Oil on canvas 800 x 850mm $2,150
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing
Antony Densham Auckland C12.2020 2020 1000 x 750mm $5,500 Aroha Novak Dunedin Poutama pēpi blankie 2020 2020 1300 x 750mm $2,000 Benjamin Work Auckland Stop, breathe, and proceed/ Motutapu 2020 Acrylic on canvas 1500 x 1500mm $6,000 Bonco Auckland Virgo in red and purple 2020 Oil on linen 1000 x 1000mm $4,800 Bryce Brown Te Puke Correspondence 2020 Acrylic paint, MSA varnish on stretch canvas, framed 650 x 550mm $2,200
Cathy Tuato’o Ross Whangārei Danny and his dogs 2020 Ink, gouache, crayon on paper 1500 x 960mm $1,750 Christine Cathie Auckland Light Cast - The Peach Tree 2020 Acrylic on linen 600 x 400mm $720 Christine Cathie Auckland Light Cast - The Sky Acrylic on linen 600 x 400mm $760 Claudia Kogachi Auckland The Opera House 2020 Acrylic on canvas inside ceramic frame 1200 x 1200mm $2,500
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Claudia Jowitt Auckland Baka IV 2020 Acrylic and spray paint with rayon yarn, Fijian vau (fibre made from hibiscus bark), copperleaf, paua shell, kina shell, cowrie shells, moulded acrylic, clay forms, and bronze powder on linen 1040 x 1040mm $4,800 Constanza Briceno Papamoa Patchwork 2020 Acrylic, charcoal, and pastel on canvas 1020 x 1020mm $1,300 Cora-Allan Wickliffe Auckland Inter-generational practice 2020 Barkcloth and traditional ink 1310 x 1220mm $10,000 Deborah Body Auckland Its_all_over_now 2020 Oil on board 260 x 300 mm $620
Ekarasa Doblanovic Auckland Shift 2020 Acrylic on board 1305 x 1180mm $6,500 Ekaterina Dimieva Auckland Counterflow 2020 Acrylic on linen 900 x 1200mm $1,600 Ekaterina Dimieva Auckland Pop 2020 Acrylic on canvas 900 x 1200mm $1,500 Elizabeth Bird Preston, Australia Acid Reflux 2020 Oil paint on linen 1020 x 1360mm $3,800 Elliot Collins Auckland Every Sea 2020 Oil on Canvas 600 x 450mm $5,500
Gaye Jurisich Hamilton Arrival (turbulent) 2020 Acrylic and oil on stretched canvas 1400 x 1400mm $4,850
Hayley Hewer Wellington ‘Verbose Appetizer’ composition #3 2020 Acrylic on canvas 410 x 305mm $460
Gillian Appleby Hastings Suddenly darkness 2020 Oil on canvas 590 x 300mm $2,400
Heather Hunt Whangārei Inside and out 2020 Marker pen, coloured pencil, ink 700 x 555mm $1,315
Hannah Ireland Auckland They Laughed, I Cried 2020 Watercolour, ink and house paint on recycled villa window 902 x 597 x 38mm $1,500 Hannah Ireland Auckland Fool Stop 2020 Watercolour, ink and house paint on a recycled villa window 597 x 843 x 38mm $1,500
Heidi Brickell Auckland Aohanga 2020 Cotton duck, acrylic gel medium, golden fluid acrylics, string, gesso 400 x 400mm $1,000 Ilena Shadbolt Auckland ...and in the process of becoming light 2020 Oil paint, graphite pencil, chalk pastel, and gesso on canvas 760 x 560mm $175
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing
Isaac Tait Christchurch Self Portrait 2020 Acrylic on canvas 900 x 600mm $700 Isabella Dampney Auckland My Neighbour Loves His New Goat 2020 Oil on canvas 1010 x 810mm $1,200 Jamie TeHeuheu Christchurch Paintstick drawing X 2020 Paint stick and ink on jute 300 x 250mm $400 Jana Wood Auckland Apricity Daze 2020 Oil paint on rabbit skin gesso on recycled board 600 x 600mm $2,000 Janet Knighton Hamilton Autumn–99 2020 Mixed media 1200 x 900mm $6,000
Jann Lenihan Masterton Drawing the Dole 2020 Pastel, black and white pencil on corrugated cardboard 310 x 450mm $1,000 Jolene Pascoe Whangārei Hokianga Daze 2020 Acrylic paint and glitter on glass and wood 460 x 460mm $750 Julia Holden Auckland Self Portrait (Jodi Clark, after Rita Angus) 2020 Acrylic house paint on figure, archival pigment print 400 x 322mm $4,800 Kate Lepper Wellington TYPO-FACE (belogngin) 2020 Acrylic paint, 100% cotton mold-made 300gsm paper, webbing, plastic rings, zip, found polypropylene plastic, various found soft plastic packaging waste 550 x 740 x 150mm $4,050
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Ken Clark Christchurch Tangata Tiriti 2020 Acrylic on MDF 595 x 500mm $1,800
Marie Le Lievre Christchurch House (Slips) 2020 Oil on Canvas 1020 x 1020mm $6,500
Kristina Joyce Rotorua Untitled 2020 House paint on linen 910 x 610mm $600
Mary Duggan Whakatāne Lockdown 2020 Oil paint on canvas 510 x 400mm $1,000
Laura Williams Auckland Beloved Son: Coming To the End of the Phallus Sea 2020 Acrylic paint on plyboard 800 x 600mm $3,800
Matt Arbuckle Auckland Track & Trace 2020 Acrylic on knitted polyester voile Framed in Aluminium 1220 x 920mm $5,500
Lizzie Beere Hawkes Bay Oku tūpuna wāhine – ka kite au i a koe ināianei 2020 Mixed media on linen 1200 x 1200mm $4,500
Melanie Mills Wellington Autumn still life with a bowl of fruit 2020 Oil on board 660 x 560mm $3,950
Madeline Child Dunedin Block Paintings, Triptych 2020 Firewood, paint 650 x 1200 x 100mm $900
Melanie Mills Wellington Red Cloth 2020 Oil on Board 660 x 445mm $4,550
Michael Greaves Dunedin Hawa Mahal 2020 Aerosol and oil on linen 275 x 380mm $2,000 Moniek Schrijer Lower Hutt Benthos 2020 Rose quartz, pounamu, patina paint, and enamel paint on copper 210 x 297mm $6,270 Nicola Bennett Rotorua I Can’t Think of Anything I’d Rather Eat 2020 Oil and mixed media 200 x 300mm $650 Nyree McInally Dunedin To The Garden Enclosed, My Daughter 2020 Painted ceramic 780 x 260mm $420 Owen Connors Auckland Adam of Light 2020 Egg tempera on board 350 x 300mm $12,000
Rebecca Steedman Auckland The Weight of Things, Earth, Sky 2020 Canvas, wood-fired ceramics, hand-painted cord, cast silver screws 450 x 360 x 150mm $1,100
Rozana Lee Auckland A Thousand Autumns, 2020 2020 Melted wax hand-drawing and fabric dye on silk, on pine wood frame with oil-tinted varnish 1350 x 1180mm $4,500
Rebecca Steedman Auckland Walking Drawings (Lockdown Edges) 2020 Watercolour drawings, wood-fired ceramics, bronze and silver shelf fittings 450 x 360 x 150mm $1,100
Sam Clague Wellington Die ich rief, die Geister (Those I called, the spirits) 2020 Oil on canvas 1000 x 700mm $1,950
Reece King Auckland Above, Below 2020 Acrylic and enamel on canvas 1300 x 890mm $3,500 Rozana Lee Auckland Blooms and Ferns, 2020 2020 Melted wax, hand-drawing, and tie-dye on silk, on pine wood frame with oil tinted varnish 1350 x 1180mm $4,500
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing
Simon Attwooll Wellington Ton tonton (turquoise) 2020 Acrylic and screen print on ACM panel in artist’s frame 430 x 315mm $1,500 Stephanie Postles Pukekohe Stand by me 2020 Stretched canvas, oil paint 900 x 1250mm $6,160 Te Pō Whakatāne Te Whitiānaunau 2020 Paper, pen, and ink drawing 297 x 420mm $5,000
Telly Tuita Wellington Three Übermensch Of Tongpop 2020 Acrylic, pencil and pastel on cotton/nylon tupenu (sarong) 1470 x 1080mm $4,100 Telly Tuita Wellington I would tell people my birth mother was a hula dancer from Hawaii 2020 Acrylic, pencil, pastel, chalk and plastic hula skirt on recycled brown paper 1400 x 1080mm $2,300 Tessa Williams Upper Hutt I am of this land 2020 Wood, glass, brass, natural pigment 200 x 400 x 300mm $5,600 Theodore Macdonald Auckland RADICAL DUDE [red hulk remix] 2020 Coloured pencil and graphite on wallpaper 540 x 1200mm $500
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Tira Walsh Auckland Franchise 2020 Mixed media on canvas 1000 x 800mm $4,320
Yvonne Abercrombie Auckland Momentary Equilibrium 2020 Oil on canvas 750 x 650mm $1,600
Tori Beeche Auckland The Seeery 2020 Oil on Canvas 450 x 350mm $1,540
Yvonne Abercrombie Auckland Ruminating 2020 Oil on canvas 900 x 800mm $1,800
Tori Beeche Auckland We Need to Learn to Live More on the Stairs 2020 Oil on canvas 450 x 350mm $1,540 Victoria Haldane Auckland Mangroves in Shadow 2020 Oil on Canvas 910 x 610mm $690 Wesley John Fourie Dunedin Poems for ephemeral men 2020 Acrylic dye on cotton bedsheet with cotton and silk embroidery applique 1400 x 900mm $2,700
Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre is an exceptional public space that aims to open up new ways of experiencing the arts, learning and communities; offering a year round programme of local and national exhibitions, library services and children’s programming, establishing an innovative cultural hub in the centre of Whakatāne. The Lifelong Learning team at Te Kōputu use the power of local heritage and creativity to enrich learning opportunities for the people of the Whakatāne district, supporting local and national artists to bring vibrant arts discussions to the Eastern Bay of Plenty. In tandem with Molly Morpeth Canaday Award exhibition partner Arts Whakatāne, The Whakatāne District Council is proud to be showcasing contemporary art in Aotearoa.
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exhibition opens exhibition closes
14 february 2021 4 april 2021
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