UCOL Artists recognised in art review

Click to enlargeKate Walker’s Untitled entry gained her the 2009 Carey Smith & Co Ltd Student Award.

The creative talents of Whanganui UCOL’s Fine Artists have been recognised in the 2009 Carey Smith & Co Ltd Whanganui Arts Review awards, announced in Wanganui recently.

Whanganui UCOL Sculpture lecturer Brit Bunkley led by example, taking out the Open Award with his lambda print entitled Distant Submarine.

Fine Arts student Kate Walker was awarded the Student Prize for her untitled birdcage sculpture. Fine Arts students Tom Turner and Amelia Hitchcock received Highly Commended accolades for their entries.

In its 21st year, the Arts Review provides a great showcase for the visual arts in Wanganui, displaying the full diversity of art making in the region and attracting large numbers of local, regional and national visitors.

Sarjeant Gallery’s Events and Communications Officer Raewyne Johnson says judge Richard Arlidge, Director of the Tauranga Art Gallery, was impressed by the standard of entries submitted by UCOL staff and students.

“It was very noticeable that Brit and his students won four of the five major awards,” says Raewyne. “UCOL can rightly be very proud.”

The Carey Smith & Co Ltd Whanganui Arts Review awards are the latest of a string of accolades received by staff and students of Whanganui UCOL’s design programmes in the past two months.

The Review is on until November 29 and the Sarjeant Gallery is open each day from 10.30am to 4.30pm

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