Above — Forest In The Quarter Light, Deborah Moss
The Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Award is a key Award in the New Zealand arts scene. Sponsored by Walker & Hall for the past seventeen years the exhibition has seen many award winners go on to win other major art prizes in New Zealand.
The two dimensional criteria means that works submitted range from paintings, to works on paper, photography, lightboxes and drawings. This year all the exhibition works are viewable in an on-line catalogue available through the gallery website this catalogue also provides details of each artist’s work. The selector for the 2021 exhibition is Fiona Blanchard, Head of Visitor Services at Auckland Museum. From over 100 works submitted Fiona Blanchard has selected 30 for this finalists exhibition, and grouped the works into the themes of Environment/natural world, isolation/human condition, memory/imagination. The Award announcement will take place on the weekend of 11/12 December.
Right — Navigational, Cathy Carter
