Thursday 14 AUGUST 6 - 8pm until Sunday 7th SEPTEMBER 2008
A brand new exhibition for those that are still finding their 'art feet' with two fortunate artists coming away with an arts grant to help further their arts careers.
A panel of 3 respected judges will award two grants to fresh new talent in Waitakere City – one for $1000, including a plaque that the artist will hold for one year, and the other for $500.
This concept was developed to bring out our hidden (emerging) Waitakere talent – the ones that have had little or no exposure to the public - and assist them by guiding them through a number of processes they will need to understand as they emerge: applications for awards, competitions, funding – exhibiting – advertising – building databases of buyers, galleries etc.
The Emerging Artists Awards Grants have a mandatory ‘accountability process’ that the recipients will also be guided through. The grants must be spent to further artistic endeavour (not to catch up on unpaid fines etc J).
The community response has been wonderful – from emerging artists, local businesses and the general community. We have now closed off for submissions after receiving 85 entries from across Waitakere City. From these – our 3 judges have selected 20 works to be exhibited here in the gallery for a month (August 14th – September 7th) The grant winners will be among those exhibited, and there will be an opening evening with a presentation ceremony on Thursday evening August 14th. The 20 finalist pieces are an exciting mix of painting, mixed media, sculpture, carving etc.
This exhibition promises to be very interesting.
Congratulations to our 20 finalists:
Chihkang Ping, Elise Ure, Sylvan Oreilly, Veronica Herber, Vanessa McKay, Taylor P Wood, Leighton Corbett, Annie McIver, Andrea Shaw, Phil Platt, David Hilliam, Tonia Geddes, Kirk Ricketts, Sarah Macclune, Elizabeth Mertens, Lesley Weston, Abdul-Satar Jawad, Rolf Wahl Olsen, Anna Boyd
