Last chance to enter Māori art competition

Last chance to enter Māori art competition

25 September 2012

Entries for Nelson Art Festival’s Māori Regional Urban Art competition close this Sunday 30 September at 5pm.

The competition, jointly sponsored by Hamish Fletcher Lawyers and Cheapskates, is open to all youth aged 14 – 20 years. Finalists will be invited to Nelson to reproduce their entries at the Refinery Art Space Gallery and then exhibit during the festival.

The competition asks participants to express, in the modern urban art genre, a Māori world view concept of turangawaewae, a place to stand.

The leading judge for this competition has been confirmed as Melbourne based Māori urban artist Lance Harris aka Ero. Motueka artist Tim Wraight and Suter Gallery Curator Anna-Marie White will also judge the competition.

During the festival, the YMCA, House 44 and Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology will host interactive urban art workshops led by Ero.

A prolific mural and street artist and a trained hair-dresser, Ero has tribal affiliations with Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui, and Ngāi Te Rangi. His most recent exploit has been the ‘Guilty of Art’ tour in the North Island, with fellow Māori urban artist and friend, Regan Tamanui, earlier this year.

The competition and workshops are part of the Māori arts component of the festival, entitled Toi Ora, which means Living Art. Other Māori arts in the festival are raranga (weaving) workshops and a Māori arts market.

To enter the Māori Regional Urban Art competition, visit www.nelsonartsfestival.co.nz/toi-ora-2/

The Nelson Arts Festival is produced by the Nelson City Council as a celebration for locals and an attraction for visitors. For the full festival programme, please visit www.nelsonartsfestival.co.nz

See http://www.flickr.com/photos/eroart/ for recent work by Ero.

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