Major Winner 2019, John Brown
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John Brown, Hastings The Battle for Tuber
I always pull off the highway to look at historical markers, however unlikely or obscure. I’m drawn magnetically by the promise of events of great moment and the superstitious notion of being there, right on the spot where it happened. The result is usually disappointing, because most of the time, a monument says more about what people want to believe than what really happened. And these days the monuments of our pasts, and especially those of the colonial era, are subject to challenge; something to be amended, corrected or simply torn down in belated shame. I see all of that - the desire, the illusion, the imperative for truth - embedded in this drily mystical painting. History doubles itself, as both tragedy and farce, in this proposed monument to a crackpot theory regarding the arrival of the sweet potato in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Dr Christopher McAuliffe - Guest Judge. |
Major Winner 2017, Kirstin Carlin
Major Winner 2016, Hugo Lindsay
Major Winner 2015, Frances Hansen
Major Winner 2014, Peter Miller
Major Award Joint Winners 2012
Virginia Leonard, Warkworth (left) and Jasmine Middlebrook, New Plymouth (right)
Virginia Leonard, Warkworth (above left)
Fairy Fairy has a very dense field which is expressive and colourful. It also exhibits verycontrolled surface tensions amongst it’s multi-layered surfaces - which suggests the artist has not thrown paint on the canvas, but has contemplated the work before the act of painting. This exuberant and joyful painting has a basis in the tradition of cold and warm colour oppositions in paint and belongs to the genre of “abstract” paint histories - the viewer can read their own narratives and stories as they view and interact with the work. Marilynn Webb - Judge 2012 |
Jasmine Middlebrook, New Plymouth (above right)
I'm Happy This Way This is a complex work interfacing painting and drawing. It is a work by a very accomplished painter who uses the basis of traditional painting to support her stylistic experimentations and personal approaches to her art. This work is full of symbolic meanings and the viewer can get lost within the narratives, as well as formulating new stories and return viewing. The tondo (round) shape may also suggest that there is no beginning and no ending and life is a recurring thematic happening experienced by all people. Marilynn Webb - Judge 2012 |
Major Winner 2011, Evan Woodruffe |
Winner 2006, Peata Larkin
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Judge, Michael Armstrong
Judge, Michael Armstrong
Winner 2005 - Sofia Minson and Luke Hollis - (Joint winners)
Sofia Minson, Saffron Monk' and Luke Hollis, The Veil of Lynnaire
Judge, Simon Ogden
Judge, Simon Ogden
Winner 2004, Grant Whibley
Te Whiti and Te Tohu in Reflection
Judge, Joan Fear
Judge, Joan Fear
Winner 2003, Jim Thomas
Raetihi Fence Line
Judge, Michael Smither
Judge, Michael Smither
Winner 2002, Rozi Demant
The Performers
Judge, Carole Shepherd
Judge, Carole Shepherd
Winner 2001, Ron Hall
Box Expose
Judge, Barry Lett
Judge, Barry Lett
Winner 2000, Helen Lees
Pink Beret
Judge, Marie Cass
Judge, Marie Cass
Winner 1999, Peter Stichbury
Study for Bleibtreu-Cordelia
Judge, Jonathan Mane-Wheoki
Judge, Jonathan Mane-Wheoki
Winner 1998, Latham Gaines
Rangitoto Fish Story
Judge, John Eaden
Judge, John Eaden
Winner 1997, Judith Moore-Chisholm
Te Oranga Ngakau
Judge, Shelly Ryde
Judge, Shelly Ryde
Winner 1996, Nicholas Raftopoulos
Working Out
Judge, Nigel Brown
Judge, Nigel Brown
Winner 1995, Karen Butterworth
The Dynamism of Revenge
Judge, Jacob Scott
Judge, Jacob Scott
Winner 1994, Jenny Dolezel
Then and Now'
Judge, Jacqueline Fahey
Judge, Jacqueline Fahey
Winner 1993, Peter Waddell
Mapping the Gulf
Judge, John Daly-Peoples
Judge, John Daly-Peoples
Winner 1992, Kalvin Collins
Something for your mind, body and soul
Judge, Helen Kedgley
Judge, Helen Kedgley
Winner 1991, Joanna Braithwaite
A Small NZ Still-life
Judge - John Scott
Judge - John Scott