Aaron McConchie Wins No.8 Wire Award

Aaron McConchie Wins No.8 Wire Award

Aaron McConchie has won the Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Awards with his work The inevitable beginning to an inconsequential end.

Constructed from No.8 wire, speakers and surround sound decoder the work highlights NZ technological ingenuity and also the problems and frustrations that the access to mass media causes the general populace.

Aaron was supported by East Tamaki businesses EuroCorp (under their brand EuroFence) and Panasonic. Without which the work would not have gone ahead.

Following a record number of entries, fourteen finalists were announced for New Zealand's most ingenious fine art award the 2009 Fieldays No 8 Wire National Art Award. Since 1997 the annual award has been challenging artists to make a sculpture from No 8 Wire. Sponsored by Fieldays, the No 8 Wire National Art Award has become renowned for the ingenious and unique entries it attracts.

Award judge Rob Garrett says the award has attracted an interesting variety of artists and approaches. "The artists selected for this art award exhibition have all responded to something within the character, history and idea of No8 Wire that they have found interesting. You might find it interesting to work out who is interested in what. They have been selected because they have transformed the material in ways that spark the imagination," he says.

The exhibition runs from 6 June to 29 June at ArtsPost in Hamilton

Aaron has also previously won the Manukau sculpture and vessel awards. Please visit the biography section at www.aaronmcconchie.com for full history.

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