Place Getters in a Long Distance Race, by Hannah Joynt. C.
K. Stead
A look at what's happening in the world of art this week.
Joynt winner
Dunedin artist Hannah Joynt has won the Christchurch Centre
of Contemporary Art Coca Gallery Anthony Harper Award for
Contemporary Art.
She won the award and $10,000 prize money last week for her
painting Place Getters in a Long Distance Race.
Judge Hamish Keith said the work "took my imagination to some
entirely new and unfamiliar place".
Joynt graduated from the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in
2006 with a BFA in painting and now teaches at the school.
Berry-Almond exhibition
Former Dunedin artist Manu Berry has combined with his old
Logan Park High School art teacher, Roy Almond, for a joint
exhibition.
Berry says his latest work has been tending towards "more
internal subject matter".
Almond was art teacher at Logan Park for 36 years before
leaving last year to build an art studio at Company Bay.
"Double Vision" by Manu Berry and "Images from the Studio" by
Roy Almond open at Bellamy's Gallery in Macandrew Bay on
Sunday and run till June 14.
Wallace awards entries
Entries are being received for New Zealand's premier art
prize, the Wallace Art Awards.
Prizes include residencies in New York, San Francisco,
Vermont and Switzerland.
Entries are invited from the disciplines of painting, unique
photography (digital and traditional), mixed media, drawing
and sculpture.
Work must be original and have been completed within a year
of the closing date of 5pm on August 13.
Calling all young poets
Young poets are being called into action for the 2009 New
Zealand Post National Schools Poetry Awards.
Poems will be judged under two categories - best poem and
best lyric.
The winner will receive $500 cash and a weekend for two at
the New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week in March next
year.
The winner of the best lyric will win $500 cash and be flown
to Auckland to spend two days recording the song in a studio
with Opshop musician Jason Kerrison. Entries can be lodged at
www.nzpost.co.nz/poetryawards.
Entries close on June 15 and the winners will be announced on
August 28.
Stead inaugural winner
Auckland writer C. K. Stead has won the inaugural Seresin
Landfall Residency.
The new literary prize is a collaboration between Otago
University Press, the long-time publisher of Landfall
magazine, and Marlborough businessman Michael Seresin.
The writer will spend the six-week residency in Tuscany,
working on an autobiography and a new collection of poetry.
A 21-year-old Wellington writer, Jenah Shaw, was awarded a
six-week residency in the Marlborough Sounds to finish work
on her first novel.
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