Wallace Art Awards
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The annual Wallace Art Awards are the biggest and longest-surviving art awards in New Zealand
. They are for contemporary painting, sculpture and photography and are run by the James Wallace Charitable Arts Trust.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. They are for contemporary painting, sculpture and photography and are run by the James Wallace Charitable Arts Trust.
Past winners of the paramount award, to 1992
- 2006 Rohan Wealleans
- 2005 Sara Hughes
- 2004 Jim Speers
- 2003 Jeffrey Harris
- 2002 Judy MillarJudy MillarJudy Millar is a New Zealand artist, who lives in Auckland and Berlin, Germany.- Education :Judy Millar received a BFA in 1980 and an MFA from Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts in 1983...
- 2001 Peter Gibson Smith
- 2000 Gregor Kregar
- 1999 Bing Dawe
- 1998 Elizabeth Thomson
- 1997 Peter StichburyPeter StichburyPeter Stichbury, born Auckland 1969, is a New Zealand artist.Stichbury graduated from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 1997. He won New Zealand’s prestigious Wallace Art Awards the same year. Stichbury is primarily a painter but his body of work also spans the mediums of...
- 1996 Jenny Dolezel
- 1995 Fata Feu'u
- 1994 Bill HammondBill Hammond (artist)William Hammond is a New Zealand artist.Hammond attended the School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury from 1966 to 1969, and has worked as a full-time painter since 1981...
- 1993 Jeff Brown
- 1992 Mark Braunias