Award for Whanganui UCOL Fine Arts lecturer

Whanganui UCOL lecturer in Fine Arts Andrea du Chatenier has taken one of the five top awards in the prestigious Wallace Art Awards, announced recently.

She was one of two runners up, behind the Paramount Award winner James Robinson, in the annual Wallace Art Awards, winning $1,500. Her work, titled Love Sanctuary (with heli port) was made of hand-dyed wool.

Andrea has been a lecturer in art and design for the last 10 years and is also a very successful practitioner.

Formerly based in Auckland, she has been in Wanganui since 2003, initially as Artist-in-Residence at both Tylee Cottage in Wanganui and at Quay School of Arts, now part of Whanganui UCOL. She now teaches Art History, Art Theory, and the Fibre for Artists studio elective on the Bachelor of Fine Arts programme.

Andrea has exhibited throughout New Zealand and frequently in Wanganui. One of her most recent activities was participation in the Auckland Festival in March. Over a week, in the Auckland CBD, she assembled a version of the Tree of Life that drew from a wide range of Western mythologies and folklores.

The Head of the Fine Arts programme at Whanganui UCOL, Myra McIntyre, says Andrea’s win, in one of the country’s most respected and competitive art awards, is a great achievement. “I know Fine Arts staff and students, and the Wanganui arts community, will join me in congratulating Andrea on her success,” she says.

An exhibition of the winning art works and selected finalists is on at the Aotea Centre gallery in Auckland. The exhibition will also show at TheNewDowse in Lower Hutt from 29 November to 30 March 2008.

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