$5000 for art soon

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 495, 20 July 1993, Page 1

$5000 for art soon

Artists from around the region will soon be able to show their work for all to see, and for a chance for some of the $5000 in prizemoney offered in the 15 th annual Ohakune Art Awards. The exhibition will open on Sunday 5 September, 1993. Since its founding in 1978 the awards have grown in scope and stature and today rank as the most notable of the country's provincial art Turn to page 2

Ari patron remembered

From page 1 exhibitions. The show generates a wide interest with artists resident between Levin and Hamilton eligible to exhibit. Entries are invited in several categories; oil, watercolour, other medium and life study. A local award, this year open to all artists resident in the Ruapehu District and sponsored by the Ruapehu District Council, is also made. A young artist award is also made and attracts increasing interest and attention from secondary school, polytechnic and college of education students.

Awards to the value of $5000 are made across the various categories with a premier award of $2000. The untimely death earlier this year of longtime principal sponsor of the awards, Elizabeth Baigent, saddened all those who had worked closely with her over many years. Sponsorship in Elizabeth's name will continue and, to mark her personal contribution to the growth of the exhibition, the principal award of the show will in future bear her name - The Elizabeth Baigent Memorial Award. Details of the 1993 exhibition and entry forms are available from public libraries and from the convener Ellen Gould, 49A Arawa Street, Ohakune, Ph: 063858 115.