The Process
Digital Entry
All submissions go through a pre-selection process from the digital images supplied by the artist and are judged on merit by the three independent pre-selection judges. Artist's names are not visible to the judges.
Next stage Results are collated by a rigorous points system and the selected works are called in and delivered to the venue for final judging by the Guest Judge. Artists are advised of the outcome via the website and will be sent information as to when their work will be called in.
Finalist award judging is made by the sole Guest Judge in (person)when the work is curated and hung.
Selected works A list of finalists and the titles of their works is posted on this website (prior to opening)
Exhibition The Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Exhibition is on display at Te kōputu a te whanga a Toi
Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre. DETAILS HERE
Winners
The awards are presented at the opening event.
All finalists and winners are encouraged to attend the prize giving.
The major winner is especially encouraged to be present to receive their award.
Digital Entry
All submissions go through a pre-selection process from the digital images supplied by the artist and are judged on merit by the three independent pre-selection judges. Artist's names are not visible to the judges.
Next stage Results are collated by a rigorous points system and the selected works are called in and delivered to the venue for final judging by the Guest Judge. Artists are advised of the outcome via the website and will be sent information as to when their work will be called in.
Finalist award judging is made by the sole Guest Judge in (person)when the work is curated and hung.
Selected works A list of finalists and the titles of their works is posted on this website (prior to opening)
Exhibition The Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Exhibition is on display at Te kōputu a te whanga a Toi
Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre. DETAILS HERE
Winners
The awards are presented at the opening event.
All finalists and winners are encouraged to attend the prize giving.
The major winner is especially encouraged to be present to receive their award.
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Guest Judge Sonya Korohina (Ngāti Porou, Whānau a Hunāra) Director, Tauranga Art Gallery. Sonya has over 25 years of experience in the Creative Industries. Since 2023, she has served as the Director of Tauranga Art Gallery. Previously, she ran Supercut Projects, a consultancy for the sector, local government, and businesses. Supercut Projects developed the CITY ART WALK App, a self-guided tour of public art sites, and curated placemaking projects like ‘Midnight Sun’ with artist Sara Hughes and ‘Echoes: Tauranga Moana’ with creative studio Storybox. Sonya also collaborated with Tauranga City Council on a public art framework. With a Post Graduate Diploma in Arts Administration from Auckland University School of Business, Sonya has worked at leading arts institutions including Auckland Art Gallery, Artspace Aotearoa, Elam School of Fine Arts, Tauranga Arts Festival and Toi Ohomai. Image: Supplied |
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Preliminary Judge Dr. Elliot Collins, Ph.D. Visual Art. I am an artist and researcher who works across an interdisciplinary range of media. I have a desire to work in museums and art galleries, across Aotearoa, amongst people and objects who sit in the difficult places of history and memory that help us live better lives today by revealing their stories and sharing their wisdom. I gained a Practice-led Ph.D. from AUT in 2019, researching Memory Markers in the Landscape in Aotearoa New Zealand. I am interested in ideas of the absent text within memorials in Aotearoa New Zealand as well as the motifs that represent a particular kind of Identity forming narrative. My practice draws reference to poetry, language, naming, access or boundaries, and memorials towards death. I live in Waitara and I currently work at Te Kura Matatini o Taranaki - Western Institute of Technology at TaranakiI am represented by Artfull https://www.artfull.co.nz/ and soon to show with Black Door Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau. Image: Supplied |
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Preliminary Judge Fiona Jack (Head of School, Fine Art, Auckland University. I have degrees in Fine Arts and Design and have taught in universities since my early twenties. I love teaching as it allows me to work alongside artists as they seek to deepen their relationship to their own artistic practice and those around them. I have a long history of making artworks for public space using billboards, posters and banners to present text works that respond to the context or epoch in which they reside. I piece together a fabric of references that inform the development of each body of work, and often invite participation, consultation and/or collaboration with people and groups. Within this aggregation of people, contexts and ideas my projects reflect upon contemporary situations and the systems, ideologies and forms of resistance we use to shape and reshape them. In the past decade I have also developed a pottery practice focused on the production of wood fired domestic ware. The social dimension of my public artwork finds a quieter and more intimate set of relationships through this practice of making cups and bowls for eating and drinking together. I enjoy focusing on the details of how these vessels function (the thousands of ways the rim of a cup can be shaped for the lip to rest on) and their engagement with the body and the ways we use domestic objects. Shaping clay and vitrifying it through the heat of a wood fuelled fire is a process rooted in community, social history and the earth. Image: Courtesy of Becki Moss and Metro Magazine |
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