Current Exhibitions
Twenty Years of Winners: The Wallace Art Awards Paramount Winners 1992-2011
Artists' Talks (including Q and A sessions):
Wednesday 22 February, 1.30pm: Mark Braunias & Jim Speers; Friday 16 March, 1.30pm: Peter Gibson Smith & Susan Jowsey
This exceptional exhibition celebrates 20 years of Paramount Award Winning artworks from the Wallace Art Awards. The Paramount Award is a premier prize for New Zealand artists who are awarded a six-month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York (ISCP). The Award has given significant credibility and prospects to the winning artists who have all gone on to successful artistic careers, both nationally and internationally.
Sir James Wallace established the Annual Wallace Art Awards 20 years ago in 1992. The Awards are now the longest surviving and largest annual art awards of their kind in New Zealand, with a value amounting to over $165,000. They differ from other important New Zealand art prizes in that they aim to provide challenging opportunities and broadening experiences to the four major winners by way of residencies at top-class international institutions. Works by many of the winners and finalists in the Awards are purchased by the Trust each year to add to the Collection. This exhibition celebrates the past twenty Paramount Award Winners with an exhibition of the winning works at the Pah Homestead. The Paramount Award winning works are:
| 2011 | Akiko Diegel | Cure | 2010 | Perspex case, Disprin packets |
| 2010 | Sam Mitchel | Janus | 2010 | Acrylic on perspex |
| 2009 | Marcus Williams/Susan Jowsey | The Correction | 2009 | Photographic Diptych |
| 2008 | Richard Lewer | Skill, Discipline, Training | 2008 | Synthetic polymer paint on billiard-table cloth |
| 2007 | James Robinson | Taniwha/Dragon (qi gong notes, spirit bones) | 2007 | Mixed media on paper (sewn) and mixed media on canvas |
| 2006 | Rohan Wealleans | Tingler | 2006 | Paint, fibreglass and steel |
| 2005 | Sara Hughes | Download | 2005 | Acrylic on linen |
| 2004 | Jim Speers | English Electric | 2004 | Acrylic, Vinyl & Fluorescent Light (Light Box) |
| 2003 | Jeffrey Harris | From Dream # 2838 | 2003 | Oil On Linen |
| 2002 | Judy Millar | Big Pink Shimmering One | 2002 | acryilc and oil on canvas |
| 2001 | Peter Gibson Smith | 750 Painting | 2001 | egg tempera on inlaid gesso on timber panels |
| 2000 | Kregar Gregor | Prstan | 2000 | Steel and glass |
| 1999 | Bing Dawe | Figure with Eel | 1999 | Kauri, steel, wire mesh |
| 1998 | Elizabeth Thompson | Southern Cross Parterre | 1998 | Bronze (paint, patina) on gesso |
| 1997 | Peter Stichbury | Truce | 1997 | Oil on canvas |
| 1996 | Jenny Dolezel | Charm School | 1996 | Oil on Canvas |
| 1995 | Fatu Feu'u | Ivivia | 1995 | Oil paint, oil stick on canvas |
| 1994 | Bill Hammond | Watching for Buller | 1993 | Oil on Canvas |
| 1993 | Jeff Brown | Untitled | 1993 | oil on metal |
| 1992 | Mark Braunias | Roll-call | 1992 | Oil, wax, enamel on canvas |
