UCOL artists dominate Whanganui Arts Review
News Release
12 July
2011
UCOL artists dominate Whanganui Arts Review
Nine of the 13 awards presented at the recent Whanganui Arts Review were snapped up by current students, graduates and teaching staff of the Quay School of the Arts.
UCOL Fashion and Drawing tutor Katherine
Claypole took out the top prize in the annual arts
competition. Katherine’s entry The Thief (graphite
on paper) won the 2011 Carey Smith & Co Ltd Open Award with
prize money of $1000.
Third year Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) student Bonnie Wroe was awarded the 2011 Carey Smith & Co Ltd Student Award worth $500, for her coloured pencil work to lose one’s soul.
Other
award winners associated with the Quay School are:
Angela Tier: Death Blooms, digital photograph. Angela is a Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate and won a 2011 Carey Smith & Co Ltd Highly Commended Award.
UCOL Fine Arts Lecturer Andrea du Chatenier won the Rivercity Picture Framers Ltd Merit Award for Lady from Atlantis (deep tan), polystyrene and shell.
Third year Diploma in Glass student Jo Conroy’s Anything you can do …, took out the Central City Pharmacy Merit Award.
Gypsies in mixed media, earned 4th year BFA student Cheleigh-Anne Dunkerton, the Ceramic Lounge Merit Award.
Former UCOL staff member and BFA graduate Keith Grinter, was awarded The Flying Fox Merit Award for his painting Procession.
Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts student and former UCOL lecturer David Traub’s glasswork Still life #8, gained him the Members of the Sarjeant Merit Award.
The Mainstreet Art & Framing Merit Award was won by 4th year BFA student Sarah Williams, for her ink and gouache drawing He tells her every day but it never gets old.
ENDS