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Next Painting and Drawing Award - February 2021
Call for entries - August 2020
Entries close - December 2020
Exhibition - February 2021

Introduction
This non-acquisitive award is highly regarded and dedicated to excellence across contemporary and traditional painting genres. The Award has developed over 30 years and sits credibly within the New Zealand arts community. A high standard of work is selected to form the exhibition from nation wide entries by three pre-selection judges
For participants, the award offers professional development opportunities for artists by showcasing their practice to peers, collectors, critics, museum curators, the media and the community at large.
Presented by Arts Whakatāne and Whakatāne Museum and Arts,

Our Vision
To encourage and celebrate the development of painting and drawing on a national level and reward artists who create outstanding works.
To exhibit painting and drawing to the public and provide a forum within which works can be viewed, studied and evaluated.

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Founding Organisation

Arts Whakatāne has been presenting the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award - Painting and Drawing since 1991

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Exhibition Partner

Whakatāne Museum and Arts

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Major Sponsor

Molly Morpeth Canaday Trust

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Our Sponsors