Queenstown artist Jackie Chatfield won the top $2000 Best of Exhibition prize for her acrylic painting titled Dreams, at the Queenstown Art Society's Locations Art Awards night on Friday.
Barbara Smith, of Queenstown, won Best Traditional Art for her oil painting Shotover, The Branches.
Karen Scot, of Kingston, won Best Contemporary Art for her acrylic Crossing Foveaux.
Queenstown artist Spike Wademan's oil Lady Anne On Fife and Wanaka artist Susan Davidson's acrylic Trust won Best of "H2O" Theme prizes.
Sue Wademan, of Queenstown, scooped the QAS Acquisition Award for her textile triptych Soulscape One.
Merit awards went to Jennifer Majeske, of Queenstown, for her oil painting Bomb Away; Brian Millard, of Queenstown, for his watercolour Hotel de Ville Provence; Alan Waters, of Cromwell, for his watercolour Central Otago Oligosama Skink & Copper Butterfly; and Christine O'Connor, of Gore, for her mixed media on zincalume Rain Dance.
Art Zone owner, co-sponsor and artist Andrew Cook, of Dunedin, was the judge.
The viewers' choice award will be announced at the end of the exhibition on the society's website.
The Locations Art Awards 2008 exhibition is open to public at the Cloakroom Gallery and art society rooms on the corner of Ballarat and Stanley Sts, and runs until November 30.
The exhibition is open daily from 10am to 4pm.
