Leading Prize For Wanganui Artist

Leading Prize For Wanganui Artist

A Wanganui artist, André Brönnimann, has won this year’s $20,000 Adam Portraiture Award with a striking portrait of three women wearing moko called Sisters.

The award, the country’s leading prize for portrait artists, was announced Wednesday evening at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, in Wellington, where the works of 59 finalists from a record entry of 366 will be on show for the next three months.

Logan Moffat, of Auckland, won the $2500 runner-up award for his work of a tattooed young man entitled Stitch.

The winners were announced by the judge, Mette Skougaard, director of the Museum of National History and National Portrait Gallery in Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark, who came to New Zealand for the final judging after selecting the finalists from digital images.

Skougaard said she had been very impressed by the high technical standard and variety of the “many outstanding portraits” entered.

Visitors to the gallery will be able to choose their favourite for the People’s Choice Award, worth $2500 to the artist of the most popular entry, which will be announced when the exhibition closes on May 29.

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