Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition

Come and view this exhibition of the works of thirty finalists that have been selected from amongst 253 entries for the Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award 2008.

Now in its eighth year, the annual Award is renowned for the challenging and often controversial entries it attracts.

Finalists selected for Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award:

-- Alison Fausett, Living at home (C-type digital print mounted on aluminium)
-- Andrea Gardner, Earthly delight (mixed media)
-- Andy Palmer, Some came on time, some took a while (C-type photographic print)
-- Bridget Inder, Outside patterns (ink and acrylic on paper)
-- Bruce Connew, Censored #1 #2 #3 (photographic prints)
-- Catherine Fookes, Tiara (triptych)
-- Chiara Corbelletto, An ocean of silence glides endlessly from an unknown beginning (mixed media sculpture)
-- Fiona Amundsen, Miracle on the Han River (chromira photographic prints)
-- Frances Hansen, This place (acrylic on placemats)
-- Helen Calder, Paused painting, four times (acrylic on plywood)
-- Jennifer Mason, Resuscitation Anne (photographic print)
-- Jennifer Mason, Spa (photographic print)
-- Keila Martin, Industrial pastures (fluoro card, clay, hard card, contact plastic)
-- Lauren Winstone and Nick Spratt, Models for a museum signage, notice and information system (laser-cut, paper, assorted printed material, written interviews, photographs)
-- Leila Goddard, Jump, jump up and jump down (watercolour and ink on paper)
-- Leila Goddard, Tug-o-War (watercolour and ink on paper)
-- Lisa Benson, Twenty minute spin (DVD)
-- Marcus Capes, Six of one and half a dozen of the other (enamel and graphite on MDF)
-- Marcus Williams and Susan Jowsey, The Limbic (photograph and small video monitor with headphones)
-- Mark Purdom, Mr Whitaker (digital photographic print)
-- Matt Ellwood, A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush (charcoal on paper)
-- Miranda Parkes, Hourglass (acrylic on canvas)
-- Patrick Lundberg, Untitled (found paint and plasterboard)
-- Richard Maloy, Clay heads (colour photographs)
-- Sam Rountree Williams, Untitled (oil on canvas)
-- Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Hill end (stop animation digital media)
-- Steve Carr, Apples and oranges (spun cast alloy, gesso, acrylic paint)
-- Tony Nicholls, Understandan (kinetic sculpture: audio, MDF, acrylic, polystyrene)
-- Yaniv Janson, Autumn reflections (acrylic on canvas)
-- Young Sun Han, Untitled (after Wilhelm von Gloeden) (chromira print of hand painted and collaged appropriated image)