2018 National Contemporary Art Award
4 August - 28 October 2018
Free entry
The best and boldest contemporary art always emerges out of the National Contemporary Art Award. The art award has been one of the most prestigious art events for the last eighteen years in Aotearoa because of the calibre of its judges and artists alike. Contemporary art is not just an exhibition of art for the elite, it is an invitation to anyone with an inquiring mind to enjoy. The 2018 judge, Reuben Friend, Director of Pātaka Art + Museum, has selected this year’s finalists from over 300 entries.
The overall winner will receive $20,000 from Tompkins Wake and Chow:Hill Architects Ltd. The Hugo Charitable Trust will sponsor the Hugo Award for the Runner-Up, with the recipient receiving $5,000, and each merit award winner will receive $1,000 sponsored by Friends of Waikato Museum and Random Art Group.
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Image: Consumer Culture, Kereama Taepa, 2018 National Contemporary Art Award Runner Up
Winners
First Prize
You and Me. The Weight of History, Sarah Ziessen
Runner Up
Consumer Culture, Kereama Taepa
Merit Awards
Doesn't Exactly Fill Me with Confidence, tbh, Natchez Hudson
The Potential of a Promise, Martin Awa Clarke Langdon
Finalists
Horizons - Amanda Densham, Auckland
LAND SWALLOWERS 2 - Brett Graham, Waiuku
talk to me - D Milton Browne, Dunedin
Aloft the Little Lower Layer - Dennis Blair, Auckland
Divided Bear Bodies - Don Chooi, Auckland
On the Seam of Things - Constellations #2 - EDWARDS+JOHANN, Christchurch
Blue Spring - James Wylie, Auckland
Rua waka wairua - Jo Torr, Tauranga
Machine Drawing: Two Columns - Julian McKinnon, Auckland
Enclosure - Justin Spiers, Dunedin
Consumer Culture - Kereama Taepa, Papamoa
Accidental Opus; Configuration 3 - Kyle Sattler, Tauranga
the Lie of the Land #2 - Lee Harrop, Australia
Lesbians are not women - Louise Lever, Auckland
Atomic Vanitas - Japan Floating - Lynn Hurst, Whanganui
Misplaced Youth #14: High-lite - M J P Binks, Auckland
Land of Hope - Marie E. Potter, Auckland
Still Here (green floral) - Marita Hewitt, Kerikeri
Space Raccoon Gang - everything is connected - Mark Curtis, Hamilton
Arctic Ghillie Suit, 29/10/17. - Mark Purdom, Hamilton
The potential of a promise - Martin Awa Clarke Langdon, Wellington
All that glitters ain't gold - Monique Lacey, Auckland
Doesn't exactly fill me with confidence, tbh - Natchez Hudson, Wellington
Antechamber 2018 - Peter Roche, Auckland
'Les Trois Morts' - Rebecca Hazard, Auckland
down the drain - Rebekah Rasmussen, Wellington
Scar - Sam Dollimore, Porirua
You and Me. The Weight of History - Sarah Ziessen, Rotorua
The Limit - Sebastien Jaunas, Paekakariki
Dopamine Blues - Shannon Novak, Auckland
Tongpop: A family of souvenirs - Telly Tuita, Lyall Bay
Aho Mutungakore - Tessa Ma'auga, Palmerston North
Judge - Reuben Friend
Reuben Friend (b.1981) is the Director of Pātaka Art Gallery and Museum in Wellington, New Zealand. He is an artist and curator of Maaori (Ngaati Maniapoto) and New Zealand Paakehaa heritage. From 2009 to 2013, Friend worked as the Curator of Māori and Pacific Art at City Gallery Wellington in New Zealand where he co-curated Art in Oceania, a major survey exhibition of New Zealand and Pacific art that was exhibited simultaneously across The National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and City Gallery Wellington. Friend has a Master’s Degree in Philosophy in Māori Visual Arts and Post Graduate qualifications in Museum Studies from Massey University, and a Diploma in Māori Language from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.
