Otago Art Society vice-president Ngaere Moss (left) and
president Andrena Hall check off the multitude of entries
received for this year's Hope and Sons Art Awards, in the
Art Station at the Dunedin Railway Station yesterday. Photo
by Craig Baxter.
A large number of entries and not enough gallery space
have resulted in artistic clutter for organisers of this year's
Hope and Sons Art Awards.
The Otago Art Society event, held every two years, opens to
the public on Saturday, but before then judge Robyn Notman,
of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, must reduce the 292
entries to about 170.
A change in rules meant artists, from all over the South
Island, could enter up to two pieces in the competition.
Society president Andrena Hall said about 170 entries were
usually received and that was all the exhibition space, at
the Art Station, could hold.
She believed the culling process would "really raise the bar"
for the awards, which had a first prize of $3000.
After the cull, the society's hanging committee, led by
Ngaere Moss, would place each piece and make the display "as
artistic as possible", Mrs Moss said.
The exhibition ends on May 30.
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