TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre News

The 20th Wallace Art Awards 2011, with prizes amounting to over $165,000, were presented on Monday 5 September by Auckland Mayor Len Brown at The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre. Akiko Diegel won the Paramount Award at the 20th Wallace Art Awards 2011 with her work ‘Cure’, made of 2,634 bulldog and alligator clips crafted from disprin packets, encased in a Perspex box. The work took four months to complete with each half of the clip hand-cut with a scalpel, then hand-folded and assembled together.

The Wallace Arts Trust received 559 entries from which 117 entries have been selected as finalists. Sixty-one finalists have been chosen for the Travelling Show and the balance is represented in the Salon des Refusés.  The Awards were judged by three distinguished New Zealand artists – Philip Trusttum, Sara Hughes and Peter Gibson-Smith.

THE 2011 WINNERS ARE:

Akiko Diegel
Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award
Akiko receives a 6 month-residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, USA.

Brydee Rood
Fulbright Wallace Trust Award
Brydee receives a 3 month-residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, USA.

Matt Ellwood
The Kaipara Foundation Wallace Trust Award 
Matt receives a 3 month-residency at the Altes Spital in Solothurn, Switzerland

Bronwynne Cornish
Wallace Development Award
Bronwynne receives a 2 month-residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, USA.

Emil McAvoy
Ist Runner Up Award
Emil is awarded $2,000 cash

Anita Levering
2nd Runner Up Award
Anita is awarded $2,000 cash 

Philip Dadson
Jury Award
This prize is non-monetary

The People’s Choice Award, worth $500, will be decided after the Travelling Exhibition has finished its leg at The Dowse on 4 December.

Winners and selected finalists chosen for the Travelling Exhibition are on show at the TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre in Auckland from 6 September to 16 October 2011, and The Dowse in Lower Hutt from 29 October to 4 December 2011. A Salon des Refusés is on show at the TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre in Auckland from 6 September to 14 October 2011.

DETAILS OF WINNING WORKS

Akiko Diegel Cure (2011), Disprin packets, perspex, 650 x 450 x 27mm (The disprin packets have been fashioned into 2,634 bulldog and alligator clips)

Matt Ellwood Unconditional Love (2011) Plywood, dowel, 950 x 1100 x 1500mm

Brydee Rood Müll Ballon Wolke Kanal Projekt (2011) Intervention / live installation performance / video (created using a 3-person kayak)
*Brydee Rood won the Fulbright Award with a body of works – this image is representative of one work

Bronwynne Cornish Between a Rock and Hard Place (2011) Ceramic collage mounted on metal stand, 500 x 300 x 300mm

Philip Dadson Headstamps II: Homage to the Silk Road (2011) DVD video/sound, 5.00 minutes

Emil McAvoy Helen (2011) Archival pigment on Hahnemuehle paper, 1110 x 830mm, Original source: photographer and date unknown, National Publicity Studios, Copyright Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga, Wellington, [AAQT, 6418, 29]

Anita Levering False Flat – Sap Green on Paynes Grey (2010) Acrylic and watercolour on linen, 2080 x 1980mm

The Awards are the longest surviving and largest of their kind in New Zealand. 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.