Judges announce short-list for The Parkin Drawing Award

Media Release
Wednesday 10 July 2013

Judges announce short-list for The Parkin Drawing Award
800 entries received for the inaugural prize

Drawing is certainly alive and well in New Zealand with a high standard of entries received for the inaugural Parkin Drawing Award. The competition attracted an impressive 800 entries, of which 120 have been selected for the short-list*.

The award attracting a major prize of $20,000 was launched by Chris Parkin, arts patron and owner of Museum Art Hotel in Wellington in October last year. Parkin has committed to funding The Parkin Drawing Award for an initial five year period.

An advisory panel, consisting of Senior Lecturer in Painting at the University of Canterbury Roger Boyce, Senior Lecturer at the School of Fine Arts - Massey University Simon Morris, painter Seraphine Pick and former curator of contemporary art at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Mercedes Vicente, spent hours trawling through hundreds of entries before deciding on the short-list.

The winning submission will be selected and announced by judge, Associate Professor and Head of the School of Fine Arts at Massey University, Heather Galbraith on Friday 26 July 2013 at the opening of the Parkin Drawing Prize exhibition at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts. 

“It’s wonderful to have such an enthusiastic response for the first year of this competition. The objective of the award was to bring back the value of drawing in New Zealand by capturing the spirit of invention, risk and discovery fundamental to drawing and making art. During the coming years, the winning entries will also lay the foundations for a national drawing collection,” said Chris Parkin, owner of Museum Art Hotel.

Works in the award exhibition range in size from the small (40 x 95mm) to the grand (3 metres x 3metres).  Entries have been received from throughout New Zealand from Auckland to Dunedin and Marton to Timaru. 

The award also revealed that drawing is much more than charcoal or pen and ink on paper with artists also submitting Neon lighting tubes, embroidery, felt pens, ceramics, latex, plaster, receipt tickets, wallpaper, biro, and recycled furniture. The exhibition encompasses large expansive works on paper in pen and ink, intimate collage and colour-field works, performance, traditional landscapes, maps, interactive works of art and graphic design. 

“We left out of the conditions of entry restrictions on what constitutes drawing leaving artists to define it by their practice. As a result of this we have seen a wide range of works from traditional (and not so traditional) figure drawing through to pure abstraction and beyond. The nature of drawing has always been the subject of discussion and debate. The inaugural exhibition for the Parkin Drawing Prize highlights this, being characterized by a welcome degree of surprise, humour and candour.” said Dr. Warren Feeney, Director of the NZ Academy of Fine Arts.

The winner of The Parkin Drawing Award 2013 will be officially announced on Friday July 26 at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in Wellington and will coincide with a public exhibition showcasing all finalists’ works.

Further information on the award can be found on www.parkinprize.org.nz. 

*The finalists for The Parkin Drawing Prize 2013

Arapere               Rewiti
Armstrong          Michael
Bagust                  Judi
Ball                         Martin
Barton                  Deborah
Beehre                 Hannah
Beets                    Ietje
Blake                     Marc
Bleakley               Joe
Bluett                    Craig
Brabants              Pam
Brown                   Georgette
Buckley                                Kate
Calvert                  Daniel
Cauchi                   David
Collins                   Elliot
Cornish                 John
Cox                        Michaela
Croucher             Tim
Crowe                   Deborah
Davies                   Alexandra
Davis                     Glenda
de Vries               Tjalling
Diegel                   Akiko
Dixon                    Craig
Douglas                                Tara
Durkin                   Denise
Dyne                     Julien
Edwards               Simon
Edwards               Johann
Ellis                         Stephen
Esling                     Simon
Fairweather       Jake
Falls                       Leslie
Febvre-Richards Emma
Feeney                 Margaret
Ferguson             Irene
Frost                      Anita
Garratt                 Trenton
Gilbert                  Grace
Grayson               Ginny
Greenbank         Jacquelyn
Hall                         Jai
Hartigan               Paul
Hawksworth      Michael
Haycock               Jaimi
Haynes                 Roger
Hayward              Heather
Hemer                  Andrea
Herber                  Veronica
Hewlett                                Evelyn
Hickman               Yolunda
Hinton                  Thomas
Holloway-Smith Bronwyn
Hubbard              Jessica
Humphreys        Clive
Hüsselmann       Erika
Hutchins              Glen
Jansen                  Monique
Jensen                  Hannah
Johnston             John
Kim                        Solyi
Kim                        Claire
King-Cole             Aaron
Kreisler                 Eugene
Le Lievre              Marie
Lillico                     Kirsty
Lundberg             Patrick
Madill                    Philip
Makea-Pardington          Akura
Mason                  Jennifer
McElwee             Dominic
McEwin                                Stephanie
Meek                    Kim
Middleton           Tim
Miller                    Neil
Millwood             Adrienne
Morley                 Michael
Muller                   Karamia
Oram                     James
Otley                     Jonathan
O'Toole                                Maria
Paterson              B. (Allan)
Patterson            Campbell
Paulet                   Roberto
Pemberton         Lorraine
Pretty                   Kelly
Prosee                  Michael
Randrup               Ellyse
Rasmussen         Rebekah
Ritchie                  Ross
Robertson           Jo
Ryan                      Sarah
Saegusa               Natalia
Scott                      Karen
Scott                      Sarah
Scott-Rowe        Marian
Sheather             Lea-Anne
Sheather             Lea-Anne
Silverwood         Margaret
Smith                    Barbara
Smith                    Alex
Smith                    Devon
Smuts-Kennedy               Sarah
Sohn                      Yon Yi
Stevens                                Kathryn
Stichbury,            Douglas
Tackett                 Marci
Tercel                    Dean
Thomson             Sandra
Townshend        Greer
Trolove                 Jack
Tsutsumi              Nagataka
van Hasselt         Janna
van Roosmalen Karin
Vullings                                Elisabeth
Waamu                                Alfred
Ward-Knox         John
Ware                     Jason
Whyte                  Robert
Wroe                     Bonnie

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