2011 TCAC Emerging Artist Award Runner Up: Diane Rimmer
Mr Wilson, 12 Years - Folded Books
Diane Rimmer (Bachelor of Design/Visual Communication, Unitec) is a local artist whose work has been seen on several Vector Power Boxes, as the winner of the Glen Eden Street Sign Competition, and at exhibitions such as "Metonomy" and "New Graduates" at Corbans Art Estate Gallery in 2010. She also features in the upcoming "How Diversity Works" exhibition at Artstation, Ponsonby, at Auckland Grammars annual Art Exhibition, and as a finalist in Waikato Museum’s "Bold Horizons" art competition. She works from her studio at Corbans Estate Art Centre and also teaches children’s art classes.
Judges Comments
- Found object with new life Stories
- Conceptually interesting
- Ordinary to extraordinary
- Origami tradition
- Respect for paper and written word
- 12 years of someone’s life – piques curiosity
- Rewards second and third viewing
- Still kept private with is enticing
- Who is Mrs McColl?
Priscilla Thompson, Cynthia Smith, Angela Fell (Judges)
