Winners Announced - Cliftons Asia Pacific Art Prize
2016 Winners Announced - Cliftons Asia Pacific Art
Prize Competition
(Sydney, Australia)
November 25th 2016 - Cliftons, the leading provider
of training and event venues hosted the annual Cliftons Art
Prize Awards Evening in 10 sites across Asia Pacific on
Thursday 24th November where the local and overall winners
were announced. To view the winners gallery please click here.
Entries in the 2016 Art
Prize closed on 31st July, with the competition attracting
over 640 pieces of artwork.
The 2016 winners are as
follows;
• Overall International Winner (from
Singapore) - Cai Xiang Loi "Seeing Dusk
Again"
• Adelaide Local Winner - Sarah Fairbanks
"Winter Blue"
• Auckland Local Winner - Liam Gerrard
“Death Don't Love Me Anymore (after Julia Margaret
Cameron)”
• Brisbane Local Winner - Anne-Marie
Zanetti "What Lies Beneath"
• Canberra Local Winner -
Kayannie Denigan " Ngalayin mayi, nukal!"
• Hong Kong
Local Winner - KiKa Ng “Hong Kong Old Tenement
Buildings”
• Melbourne Local Winner - Jacqui
Grantford "Ashley"
• Perth Local Winner - Melinda
Ison-Poor " Immersion"
• Sydney Local Winner - Michael
Simms “Transcendence”
• Wellington Local Winner -
Lee Robinson "One oak chair"
The annual art competition
supports local artists and encourages corporate patronage of
the arts across Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and
Singapore.
Since 2001, the Cliftons Art Prize has
provided established and emerging artists across Asia
Pacific the opportunity to receive international exposure
via Cliftons’ broad network of corporate event venues. In
addition, one winner at each of Cliftons ten venues are
awarded AUD$2,000 and the overall Cliftons Art Prize winner
awarded AUD$10,000 in prize money.
More
information on Cliftons Art Prize, the 2016 finalists, award
evenings and art exhibitions can be found at www.cliftonsartprize.com.
Founded
in 1997, Cliftons is the leading provider of event and
training venues, seamlessly delivering total event solutions
around the globe. A privately held company headquartered in
Sydney, Australia, Cliftons venues are situated in CBD
locations across Asia Pacific in Sydney, Melbourne,
Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hong Kong, Singapore,
Auckland and Wellington. Dedicated service teams passionate
about delivering their customers' vision, coupled with
innovatively designed venues built specifically for computer
training, seminars, meetings and corporate events makes
Cliftons stand out from the
rest.