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Chance To Make A Difference For Young Artists
Chance To Make A Difference For Young Artists
young artists have an opportunity to showcase their best work and make a difference to the lives of others by having their work hang in Waikato DHB hospitals.
The 2010 Hamilton Boys High School and Waikato DHB Painting Competition "Transfusion" launched today is about the power of art, and the power of the artist to influence the lives of others for the better.
The competition is open to Year 12 and 13 painting students throughout the Waikato DHB region. The work may form part of an NCEA submission at 2.2 or 3.2., or may be produced specifically for the competition. (Information and entry forms: http://www.waikatodhb.govt.nz/events/pageid/2145849094 )
By donating artwork to the hospitals, young artists can be assured of public appreciation of their work, and be doubly sure that their art will make a real and lasting impact on the lives of others.
Hamilton Boys High School student Hamish Carter last year took out the inaugural Waikato Transfusion secondary schools' painting competition. (To download a photograph of last year's winner and painting http://www.waikatodhb.govt.nz/photogallery.aspx - keyword Carter)
His work hung for a month in Waikato Museum at the Transfusion exhibition with 113 other entries from Waikato student artists. The students donated their artworks as part of the competition to Waikato District Health Board provider arm Health Waikato to hang in its five hospitals in Hamilton, Tokoroa, Te Kuiti, Thames and Taumarunui.
Construction work at Waikato Hospital means the artwork is yet to hang on walls there but in time will do so.
Organiser James Sutherland, head of art at Hamilton Boys' High School, said there were some "wonderful pieces of work" entered last year and he expected the same this year.
Health Waikato chief operating officer Jan Adams, who presented the awards at Waikato Museum last year, said the quality of the art was outstanding.
"Influencing the lives of others for the better, is part of what being an artist is all about.
"As clinicians we know the impact art has on people, particularly those who may be ill or recovering in our hospitals. What we often don't appreciate is that many people visiting our hospitals are under stress or concerned for their loved ones and sometimes a piece of work from a young artist lifts their spirits," she said.
The competition is an extension of collaboration between Waikato DHB and Hamilton Boys' High School. Mr Sutherland came up with the idea of getting his students to donate their work to Waikato Hospital six years ago, when his son was born there.
More than 80 student works already hang in Waikato Hospital as part of an initiative aimed at showing the power of art and the power of an artist to influence the lives of others for the better.
"I know the student art that hangs in Waikato Hospital already provides a tonic for the 4500 staff who work here. On any day about 5300 people visit Waikato Hospital," said Mrs Adams.
"That's quite an audience for these talented young artists."
Results last year:
First prize Wintec one year's fees: Hamish Carter, Hamilton Boys' High School
Other prizes: PricewaterhouseCoopers prizes - art vouchers
Georgi Rosendaal, Sacred Heart Girls' College Wiremu Mackie, Hamilton Boys' High School Kate Wardlaw, Sacred Heart Girls' College
National Art Supplies prizes - art materials
Tomairangi Tapu, Te Awamutu College Elisabeth Stevenson, Hamilton Christian School Kendall Watt, Sacred Heart Girls' College Neihana Rua, Hamilton's Fraser High School Schools' prize: Sacred Heart Girls' College
Warehouse Stationery prize Billy Zhou, Hamilton's Fraser High School
School Supplies Prizes Salome Theron, Hamilton Christian School Amy Rutten, Sacred Heart Girls' College
The Framing Workshop Prize Kristina Fransen, Sacred Heart Girls' College
Hamilton Boys' High School
prize of art materials Simeon Teem, Hamilton Boys' High
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Waikato District Health Board (DHB) employs over 6500 people and plans, funds and provides hospital and health services to more than 391,770 people in a region covering eight per cent of New Zealand.
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