Making the Parkin shortlist

C J Edmond's "The Build", created using ink and acrylic on canvas. It is a commentary on the housing crisis, and the noise people are wanting to hear is "chippies and tools" not the noise of politicians. IMAGES: SUPPLIED

Sue Pearce's "Your perfect face2" uses flashe and gouache on paper as a meditation on someone who is not here - "too painful to draw, but a gesture towards touching you".

Cara Fotofili's Body without Organs is created in ink on watercolour paper. This scale drawing of...

Cara Fotofili's "Body without Organs" (ink on watercolour paper). This drawing of a giant gypsum cave in the Ukraine reminded her of a quote from Antonin Artaud which inspired French philosopher Deleuze to create a concept of a body without organs.

Port Chalmers artist James Robinson's "THE ECOLOGICAL THOUGHT (Old Brain)" is a mixed media paper collage where he has weaved up to 20 years of older drawings in 55 long parallel sequences hanging on a rail. Robinson was awarded People's Choice in 2019.

Motoko Kikkawa's "Mysterious lighting world" captures short-lived beautiful things such as cloud, smoke, light and shadow. She moved to New Zealand from Tokyo in 2004 and is known for her collaborations and mixing of music and art.

James Thomson-Bache's "Monolith" is made up of four canvasses, combined to create one large continuous piece representing the imposing and large scale of monolithic features over the landscape.

Thomas Hancock's "Figure Studies 1-10" are made up of masking tape stencils he had kept as a...

Thomas Hancock's "Figure Studies 1-10" are made up of masking tape stencils kept as a record of his drawing process from oil paintings used to protect the underpainting while he rolled on the background. A way of picking up pieces from an old process...

Dunedin artists have again impressed judges in the annual Parkin Drawing Prize.
One of the top arts awards in New Zealand with a top prize of $25,000, it was founded by philanthropist and arts patron Chris Parkin.

This year seven Dunedin artists’ works made the shortlist of 80 works selected from 563 entries by a panel of painter John Walsh and ceramics artist Virginia Leonard and former Dunedin man Ben Plumbly, director of Art at ART+OBJECT auctioneers.

The Dunedin finalists are CJ Edmonds, Cara Fotofili, Thomas Hancock, Motoko Kikkawa, Sue Pearce, James Robinson and James Thomson-Bache.

“It’s quite remarkable to see such a strong number of entries especially given the year we’ve all had. It proves creativity is alive and well in Aotearoa,’’ Parkin says.

The works will be showcased at the Parkin Drawing Prize exhibition at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts in August.

The winning submission will be selected and announced by Dr Sarah Farrar, Auckland Art Gallery head of Curatorial and Exhibitions at the gala announcement of the Parkin Drawing Prize exhibition on August 2.

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