Three Wintec Staff In Finals Of Premier Art Awards

Three Wintec Staff In The Finals Of Premier Art Awards

Three academic staff from Wintec (Waikato Institute of Technology) are in the final line-up for what has become one of the country’s premier art awards.

The Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Awards Ceremony will be held at the Waikato Museum this evening.
This annual award is an opportunity for New Zealand artists to appear in an overview of national artistic practice and feature in a major exhibition within the Waikato Museum.

Lisa Benson
In Good Company
Digital print
In hunting for evidence of life on other planets, I fashioned a few boxes on a tracking tripod on the top of Mount John Observatory
Collection of the artist

Tony Nicholls
Begeondan
Mixed media – kinetic and sound
Begeondan is old English for, from the farther side (beyond). All the elements of the work create an empty frame; in fact the focus of the work is to draw your attention to the margins and beyond. This work is essentially a visual amplifier for sound that cannot be heard from the infrasound spectrum, which is below the threshold of hearing. The driving sound force is largely generated from a sine wave from a computer based signal generator and played through the components of a stereo system. The broken lines of the string relates to those of technical drawing which indicate that which cannot normally be seen from the current point of view. The audible sounds are derived from polystyrene cubes bouncing on a paper speaker cone vibrating at 19 hertz. This frequency is at the cusp of hearing, at the edge of another realm.
Collection of the artist

Mark Curtis
For the Love of God Gimme Head
Life size plastic skull encrusted in silver holographic glitter and vitrine
Collection of the artist

For more information please contact anna.carter@wintec.ac.nz

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