Walters_Prize

Walters Prize

Walters Prize

New Zealand biennial contemporary art prize

The Walters Prize is New Zealand's largest contemporary art prize.

Held biennially since 2002, the prize aims to 'make contemporary art a more widely recognised and debated feature of cultural life'. The prize is named in honour of New Zealand abstract painter Gordon Walters and the founding benefactors and principal donors are Erika and Robin Congreve and Dame Jenny Gibbs.[1] The prize is organised by and held at Auckland Art Gallery.

Four artists are nominated each year by a panel of four New Zealand-based jurors for a work or body of work exhibited in the previous two years. The four artists are invited to install the nominated works (or version of their nominated show) at the Auckland Art Gallery in a public exhibition. The prize is awarded by a visiting international judge.[2]

The winner receives $50,000. The prize attracts significant media coverage every year.

The 2016 nominees were considered notable, as three of the four nominees are of Māori descent.[3]

Recipients and finalists


2024

Jurors: Robert Leonard, Tendai Mutambu, Melanie Oliver and Hanahiva Rose[4]

Finalists: (winner to be announced later in the year)

  • Juliet Carpenter EGOLANE[5]
  • Owen Connors your cart and plow over the bones of the dead [6] and Incubations[7]
  • Brett Graham Tai Moana Tai Tangata[8]
  • Ana Iti The woman whose back was a whetstone,[9] Roharoha and I must shroud myself in stinging nettle[10]

2021

Judge: Kate Fowle, Director of New York’s MoMA PS1.

Jurors: Allan Smith, Nathan Pohio, Melanie Oliver, Charlotte Huddleston.[11]

Finalists:

There was some controversy over conflict of interest with this iteration of the Walters Prize, as two of the selected works had been in exhibitions curated by jurors.[16]

2018

Judge: Adriano Pedrosa

Jurors: Stephen Cleland, Allan Smith, Lara Strongman, Megan Tamati-Quennell[17][18]

Finalists:

2016

Judge: Doryun Chong, inaugural Chief Curator at M+, Hong Kong.

Jurors: Emma Bugden, Peter Robinson, Lara Strongman, Nina Tonga

Finalists:

  • Shannon Te Ao for Two shoots that stretch far out (2013–2014) (winner)[20]
  • Joyce Campbell for Flightdream (2015)
  • Nathan Pohio for Raise the anchor, unfurl the sails, set course to the centre of an ever setting sun! (2015)
  • Lisa Reihana for in Pursuit of Venus [infected] (2015)[21]

2014

Judge: Charles Esche

Jurors: Tina Barton, Anna-Marie White, Peter Robinson, Caterina Riva.

Finalists:

2012

Judge: Mami Kataoka

Jurors: David Cross, Aaron Kreisler, Kate Montgomery, Gwynneth Porter.

2010

Judge: Vicente Todolí,

Jurors: Jon Bywater, Rhana Devenport, Leonhard Emmerling and Kate Montgomery.

  • Dan Arps for Explaining Things (winner)[28][29][30]
  • Alex Monteith for Passing Manoeuvre with Two Motorcycles and 584 Vehicles for Two-Channel Video
  • Fiona Connor for Something Transparent (please go round the back)
  • Saskia Leek for Yellow is the Putty of the World

German-based New Zealand artist Michael Stevenson was also nominated for his 2008 exhibition Persepolis 2530 shown in Bristol, but the Auckland Art Gallery stated that 'due to accommodation and budgetary constraints it was not possible to exhibit' the work and therefore while the nomination stood it was not eligible for judging.[31]

2008

Judge: Catherine David

Jurors: Jon Bywater, Elizabeth Caldwell, Andrew Clifford and Rhana Devenport[32]

2006

Judge: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Jurors: Tina Barton, Andrew Clifford, Wystan Curnow and Heather Galbraith[34]

2004

Judge: Robert Storr

Jurors: Tina Barton, Dr Deidre Brown, Greg Burke and Justin Paton[36]

2002

Judge: Harald Szeemann

Jurors: Robert Leonard, Justin Paton, Anna Miles and William McAloon[39]

  • Yvonne Todd for Asthma and Eczema (winner)[40][41]
  • Gavin Hipkins for The Homely (1997-2000)
  • John Reynolds for Harry Human Heights (2001)
  • Michael Stevenson for Call Me Immendorff (2000)

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