Monique Jansen wins inaugural Parkin Drawing Prize
Monique Jansen wins inaugural Parkin Drawing
Prize
Monique
Jansen from Titirangi in Auckland has been announced the
winner of the inaugural Parkin Drawing Prize and a
$20,000 cash prize – sponsored by Chris Parkin, arts
patron and owner of Museum Art Hotel in
Wellington.
Monique Jansen’s work AO Folded
Moire Drawing was chosen as the winner from an
impressive 800 submissions nationwide and 115 finalists at
the opening of The Parkin Drawing Prize exhibition at
the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts on Friday 26
July.
Heather Galbraith, the judge for this year’s
prize and Associate Professor and Head of the School of Fine
Arts at Massey University, said “This work has visual
punch, sucks you in to a vortex of marks where you can get
lost for some time. The intricacy and character of the
individual marks hits you second, by which time you develop
some concern for whether the artist suffers from RSI, but
the overall effect of the work is cohesive. The technique
does not dominate the work; the process—while
integral—does not render the work clinical,”
Jansen is Senior lecturer at AUT University School of
Art & Design in Auckland.
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.
Parkin has committed to funding The
Parkin Drawing Prize for an initial five year period.
The competition, in association with the New Zealand Academy
of Fine Arts, promotes excellence and innovation in drawing
in all its forms (processes, materials and ideas) and aims
to play an important role in fostering New Zealand drawing
practice.
“We couldn’t be happier with incredible
range of drawings submitted for the first year of this
award. The objective of the award was to emphasise the value
of drawing in New Zealand by capturing the spirit of
invention, risk and discovery fundamental to drawing and
making art – this has certainly been achieved. It is also
marks the establishment of a unique collection of New
Zealand art through the acquisition of the winning
drawings,” said Chris Parkin
Entries came in all
forms, from the traditional (and not so traditional) figure
drawing through to pure abstraction and beyond. A range of
materials included Neon lighting tubes, embroidery, felt
pens, ceramics, latex, plaster, receipt tickets, wallpaper,
biro, and recycled furniture. The exhibition also
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.
The Parkin Drawing Prize
exhibition season runs from 27 July – 25 August 2013 at
the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Queens Wharf,
Wellington. All artworks on display will be for
sale.
Further information on the award and exhibition
can be found on www.parkinprize.org.nz.
ENDS