Wallace Art Awards Paramount Winners 1992-2011

MEDIA RELEASE: Monday 6 February 2012

Twenty Years of Winners: The Wallace Art Awards Paramount Winners 1992-2011

13 February – 22 April 2012

With great excitement and delight, Sir James Wallace and the James Wallace Arts Trust present Twenty Years of Winners: The Wallace Art Awards Paramount Winners 1992-2011.

The opening of the Exhibition is at 6pm on Monday the 13th of February.

With few exceptions none of the Winners have been seen by the public since the Exhibitions in which they were that year’s winner. Bringing them altogether for the first time gives us a retrospective view of Contemporary New Zealand Art as chosen by the respective juries. There was often controversy about the choices but we believe that each winner has stood up to the test of time.

The Awards are the longest-surviving, largest and richest annual art awards in New Zealand, providing four overseas residencies and cash prizes altogether amounting to over $165,000 each year. Almost all the winners were emerging artists at the time they won but have since gone on to establish very successful careers in the Arts as practitioners or academics or both.

The TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre is Auckland’s exciting new cultural destination located in the historic Pah Homestead, Monte Cecilia Park, Hillsborough. Since it opened in mid August 2010 there have been over 182,000 visitors.

The Exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with texts on each of the winning works.

The Art Centre’s opening hours are Tuesday – Friday 10am till 3pm, Saturday - Sunday 10am till 5pm. Entry is by donation.

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