2010 Emerging Artist Awards

Titirangi Community Arts Council

2010 Emerging Artist Awards

Opens Thursday 8th July 6 – 8 pm

On display until Sunday 1st August

Our third Emerging Artist Awards 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 endeavor (not to catch up on unpaid fines etc :-)).
2009 Winner: Nuance by Linda Dixon

Up For Grabs
• One Winner - $1000 Grant, plus $150 Resene Gift Voucher, $150 Gordon Harris Voucher
• One Runner Up - $500 Grant, plus $100 Resene Gift Voucher, $100 Gordon Harris Voucher
• 20 Finalists - $20 Resene Gift Voucher
• 20 Finalists - Profiled in a special edition of Gallery36 the ezine showcasing Emerging Artists
• One People’s Choice Award Winner - $100 MyCanvas Voucher

TCAC Emerging Artist Definition
• The TCAC Emerging Artist is: coming into view; coming into existence; coming to maturity.
• The artists should not yet be contracted by a commercial gallery.
• They should not yet have had major exhibitions (mainly referring to solo exhibitions) in museums and exhibition halls.
• There are no requirements for academic standards. Eg. Self taught artists are welcome to apply.
• The artists should now be ready to present their work on the exhibition market.
• The TCAC Emerging Artist Awards does not discriminate in terms of the age of the applicants and hereby invites artists of all age groups who comply with the application criteria and the definition of an emerging artist to send their applications.

Our Judges
• CHRISTINE HELLYAR graduated Diploma of Fine Arts (Hons) from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 1969. Common themes in her work include her love of the natural environment and people’s interaction with it, and a challenging of traditionally stereotypical gender roles, such as those of hunter/gatherer. She is an avid drawer of bush flora, a vast source of visual inspiration and her work is usually site-specific. In 1968 Hellyar was the first New Zealand artist to cast in latex rubber, a medium able to replicate perfectly the texture of the original object. She has since cast objects from nature – leaves, pine cones, branches, etc. – in various states from perfection to decay, but has also worked with a diverse range of other materials, including bronze and iron for life-casting, clay, fabric, plaster, flax, grasses and found materials. During the late 1970s, Hellyar’s work became more symbolic as she began using found objects, particularly from beaches. In the early 1980s, she focused on the idea of the home or nest as both haven and trap, and explored the concept of ‘shelter’. Her subsequent ‘Thought Cupboards’ were comprised of found objects which she sorted and presented in domestic shelving or storage units, to provoke questions about social mores,gender stereotypes and other intellectual premises. Using latex rubber again in her ‘Pacific Food Aprons’ of the mid-1980s she cast vegetables or meat to suggest body parts and, with some ambiguity, the apron-wearer’s function and gender. In the 1990s, Hellyar returned to working in bronze, creating tall, bronze garden sculptures of native plant stems and flowers, and large vessels such as vases with cast flora around their rims. The apron was a concept to which she returned in 2002, with a series of fabric aprons with their pockets filled with dried grasses, lichens and woven twine or rope. Her 2003 exhibition with Maureen Lander stemmed from speculation that Captain James Cook’s wife, Elizabeth, may have learned weaving and other skills from Maori during her time in New Zealand. In 2003, Hellyar was one of the first three artists to be given a Wild Creations Art Residency (a joint venture between DOC and Creative NZ). She spent six weeks up Mt. Taranaki and work from that period was exhibited in 2004 at Milford, the Hawke’s Bay Cultural Trust Gallery in Napier and Puke Ariki, the new museum in New Plymouth.

• Naomi McCleary is the Strategic Advisor for Arts at Waitakere City Council. Originally a print maker, she has been the arts administrator at Waitakere for over ten years and has managed an annual programme of major arts events throughout that time. The self-confessed Westie - she's been living in Titirangi and Oratia for around 30 years now - says she believes "in the concept of a creative city, a place where the arts and artists are honoured and are invited to contribute to creating a beautiful place to be". In 2004 Naomi was the first recipient of an Outstanding Individual Contribution Award from Creative New Zealand for her services to the arts within the local government arena.
• Joanne Duggan: Representing our wonderful sponsor Resene

Entry Fee
• Non Member $25
• Member $20

Conditions Of Entry
• Open to Waitakere City residents only.
• The artist must comply with the definition of a TCAC Emerging Artist.
• All media of contemporary visual art are accepted in order to be open to new developments in art.
• Size: Maximum dimension is 1m x 1m
• It is important that the most current work of the artist is presented in the exhibition; therefore, the works should not be older than 2 years and not previously exhibited.
• Photographs of up to 2 works per person may be submitted. Original works are not required for initial selection.

Conditions on Selection
• Presentation: All work must be suitably and professionally presented ready for hanging with no protruding hanging devices at back of frame. String from D Ring device if possible. All work must be clearly labeled on the reverse side. Details must include: the artist's name, address, telephone number and title, medium, retail price of the work.
• TCAC will not accept any artwork that is still wet.
• Work may be for sale, commission will be 25% plus GST on commission only.
• Work is insured by TCAC during the exhibition, but is the responsibility of the artist during transit.
• The exhibition and awards will be selected by an independent judging panel. The judge's decision will be final. No correspondence will be entered into. All works selected during the final selection process will be hung; these works will remain on display for the duration of the exhibition.
• The TCAC reserves the right to photograph and publish any selected work in publicity media.
• Works not collected three months after the close of the exhibition, will become the property of the TCAC

Important Dates
Friday, 18 June 2010 - 4pm ............................................. Closing Date for entries by submission of photo/s
Monday, 28 June 2010 – by 4pm ..................................... Finalists advised.
Monday, 5 July 2010 (10am -2pm) ................................... Delivery of selected work to gallery
Thursday, 8 July 2010 (6 – 8pm) ..................................... Opening and Presentation ceremony
Friday, 9 July – Sunday, 1 August 2010
(10-4:30 7 Days) ................................................................ Public exhibition
Monday, 2 August 2010 (10am – 2pm) ............................ Collection of unsold work

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