2021 Molly Morpeth Canday Award - Painting and Drawing
2021 Appointed Guest Judge - Karl Chitham
Karl Chitham (Ngā Puhi, Te Uriroroi) is the Director of The Dowse Art Museum and was previously the Director and Curator of the Tauranga Art Gallery - Toi Tauranga. He has also held curatorial roles at Rotorua Museum Te Whare Taonga o Te Arawa, University of Waikato, Whakatāne Library and Exhibitions Centre - Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi and Objectspace.
He has a Master's Degree in Sculpture from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University and has been involved in the arts in New Zealand in a variety of roles for over 15 years. Chitham has been involved in number of awards most recently as a judge of the Wairarapa Art review and the 2019 Occam New Zealand Book Awards. He was also a judged the Taranaki National Art Awards, the Wanganui Review and the National Youth Arts Awards. He has been a selector of the Headlands Sculpture of the Gulf, Waiheke and was on the section panel for the New Zealand Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for 2021.
Karl Chitham (Ngā Puhi, Te Uriroroi) is the Director of The Dowse Art Museum and was previously the Director and Curator of the Tauranga Art Gallery - Toi Tauranga. He has also held curatorial roles at Rotorua Museum Te Whare Taonga o Te Arawa, University of Waikato, Whakatāne Library and Exhibitions Centre - Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi and Objectspace.
He has a Master's Degree in Sculpture from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University and has been involved in the arts in New Zealand in a variety of roles for over 15 years. Chitham has been involved in number of awards most recently as a judge of the Wairarapa Art review and the 2019 Occam New Zealand Book Awards. He was also a judged the Taranaki National Art Awards, the Wanganui Review and the National Youth Arts Awards. He has been a selector of the Headlands Sculpture of the Gulf, Waiheke and was on the section panel for the New Zealand Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for 2021.
2021 Pre selection judge - Francis McWhannell
Francis McWhannell is a writer and exhibition maker from Aotearoa New Zealand, currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He holds a Bachelors of Arts (Honors) in Museums and Cultural Heritage from the University of Auckland Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau, where he recently completed his Masters of Art History. In October 2019, he was appointed the curator of the Fletcher Trust Collections, a major provate collection of Aotearoa art founded in 1962. He is a passionate advocate for the arts in general and for early-career artists from Aotearoa in particular. He was a judge of the Aspiring Art Prize in 2019 and the Eden Arts Art School Award in 2019 and 2020.
Francis has written for Various arts and culture magazines and websites, including Art Collector9 Australia), Art New Zealand, Art News New Zealand, Index, and The Spinoff. He contributes regularly to The Photograph Punch, where he was Visual Arts Editor form 2016 - 2017.
Francis McWhannell is a writer and exhibition maker from Aotearoa New Zealand, currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He holds a Bachelors of Arts (Honors) in Museums and Cultural Heritage from the University of Auckland Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau, where he recently completed his Masters of Art History. In October 2019, he was appointed the curator of the Fletcher Trust Collections, a major provate collection of Aotearoa art founded in 1962. He is a passionate advocate for the arts in general and for early-career artists from Aotearoa in particular. He was a judge of the Aspiring Art Prize in 2019 and the Eden Arts Art School Award in 2019 and 2020.
Francis has written for Various arts and culture magazines and websites, including Art Collector9 Australia), Art New Zealand, Art News New Zealand, Index, and The Spinoff. He contributes regularly to The Photograph Punch, where he was Visual Arts Editor form 2016 - 2017.
2021 Pre selection Judge - Hanahiva Rose
Hanahiva is s an assistant Curator of the contemporary Art and Collections at the Govett Brewster in New Plymouth.
Previously Hanahiva has worked as an adviser at Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage, as a research assistant at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and as a research assistant and curatorial intern on the Oceania at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Hanahiva is regularly published nationally for her writing on Māori and Pacific art practices in Aotearoa.
Hanahiva is s an assistant Curator of the contemporary Art and Collections at the Govett Brewster in New Plymouth.
Previously Hanahiva has worked as an adviser at Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage, as a research assistant at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and as a research assistant and curatorial intern on the Oceania at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Hanahiva is regularly published nationally for her writing on Māori and Pacific art practices in Aotearoa.
2021 Pre selection Judge - Natasha Matila- Smith
Natasha Matila- Smith (Ngā Kahungunu, Ngāti Hine, Samoan) arts practitioner in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. She graduated from the University of Auckland with a Masters of Fine Arts degree in 2014. Natasha's practice interrogates ideas of singularity and reflects fixes identity. She often approaches heavy themes with satire, with her recent works dealing with social anxieties through combining contemporary culture with digital landscape. Recent exhibitions include The Cold Islanders, Waikato Museum, 2019 and you're my number 1, Firstdraft , Sydney 2017. As a writer, she has contributed to numerous online ans print publications which include Runway Australian Experimental Art, Matter Aotearoa Auckland and Art New Zealand.
Natasha Matila- Smith (Ngā Kahungunu, Ngāti Hine, Samoan) arts practitioner in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. She graduated from the University of Auckland with a Masters of Fine Arts degree in 2014. Natasha's practice interrogates ideas of singularity and reflects fixes identity. She often approaches heavy themes with satire, with her recent works dealing with social anxieties through combining contemporary culture with digital landscape. Recent exhibitions include The Cold Islanders, Waikato Museum, 2019 and you're my number 1, Firstdraft , Sydney 2017. As a writer, she has contributed to numerous online ans print publications which include Runway Australian Experimental Art, Matter Aotearoa Auckland and Art New Zealand.
Image credit: John McIver, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
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Founding Organisation
Arts Whakatāne has presented the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award since 1991
Exhibition Partner
Whakatāne Library and Exhibitions Centre - Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi
Major Sponsor
Molly Morpeth Canaday Trust