headland Sculpture on the Gulf, exhibition Waiheke Island

Carolyn Williams

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Carolyn Williams, ‘Field Notes’
Born in Hong Kong and educated in England, Williams lived and worked in various countries before immigrating to New Zealand in 2003. She completed an art foundation at Camberwell College of Arts, London and received a Bachelor of Visual Arts and Master of Arts with First Class Honours from Auckland University of Technology (2008). She is a member of the Dust Art Collective, an Auckland-based artist initiative. Williams exhibited at the 2011 headland Sculpture on the Gulf event.

Ray Haydon

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Ray Haydon, ‘Zenith’
Ray Haydon was born, and is based, in Auckland. His works communicate an interest in the evocative properties of line in three-dimensional sculpture. In contrast to an intuitive and spontaneous approach to creating visual forms, he devotes much time and energy investigating the engineering required to make his pieces successful, adapting fabrication technologies from myriad sources. His sculptures have been featured in a number of public exhibitions and publications.

2013 Award Winners Announced

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Lexus Premier Award $20,000 Gregor Kregar
Westpac Selectors Award $10,000 Kazu Nakagawa
Gen-i Selectors Award $10,000 Carolyn Williams
Parsons & Brinckerhoff Award for Excellence in Engineering David McCracken”

Winner of the Lexus Premier Award Gregor Kregar

Winner of the Gen-i Selector’s Award Carolyn Williams

Winner of the Parsons Brinckerhoff Award for Excellence in Engineering

Winner of the Westpac Selector’s Award Kazu Nakagawa.jpg

Veronica Herber

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Veronica Herber, ‘Slowness Shifting IV’
Veronica Herber is an emerging Auckland artist. Since graduating from AUT University with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2011 her work has been exhibited in the Waitakaruru Sculpture and Arboretum, Hamilton, 2012; Sculpture on the Shore, Devonport, 2012 and in March 2013 she will travel to Australia to install a masking tape work for Cottesloe, Sculpture by the Sea in Perth.

Trish Clarke

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Trish Clarke, ‘In case of emergency LIKE this Page’
Trish Clarke is a Whangarei based artist who works as the arts administrator for CHART and Creative Northland, and is also the event Manager for Whangarei Sculpture Symposium. Her art responds to the immediate environment, either by subject matter or by the materials used. Clarke’s works are held in private and public collections and she has participated in numerous outdoor and indoor exhibitions including Shapeshifter (Wellington) 2012; NZ Sculpture OnShore 2012, 2010; Kaipara Sculpture Park 2012, 2011, 2010 and Waitakaruru 2011, 2010 and 2009.

Terry Stringer

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Terry Stringer, ‘A Shrine of the Elements’
Stringer was born in England and settled in New Zealand in 1952. Trained at Elam, and gradating in 1967, he primarily works on figures that are cast into bronze. In the late 1970′s he was awarded the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Scholarship three times and is a recipient of New Zealand’s national honour, the ONZM (Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit). His Mountain Fountain stands outside the Anglican Cathedral in Parnell, and he recently installed the Gateway Sculpture Dance to the Music of Time outside Nelson City.

Sharonagh Tengblad

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Sharonagh Tengblad, ‘A Weave of Words’
Sharonagh Montrose holds a PhD, Masters and BFA Hons in Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland; BSc from Salford University, England and PGCE from Cambridge University. She exhibits nationally and internationally and has works in private collections in New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, England, France, Italy, Croatia, Spain and Kenya.

Sarah Brill

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Sarah Brill, ‘Wildfire’
Brill gained a Bachelors Degree in Sculpture from Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 1995. She gained a Diploma of Teaching in 1996 and from 1997 Brill has worked full time as an art teacher or professional artist and mother. She is currently teaching at Long Bay College. She has completed large commissioned sculptures for the North Shore City Council, Botany College and her work is held in private collections. In 2011 she won the Estuary Artworks competition organised by the Auckland Council to raise awareness of the Tamaki Estuary.

Regan Gentry

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Regan Gentry, ‘Death Row – Rocky Bay Store’
Regan Gentry gained a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Otago Polytechnic School of Art and is now based in Auckland. His practice typically depicts the relationship between people, their environment, and how this is acted out. He has received numerous awards and residencies and his work is represented in a myriad of public spaces and collections including Wellington Botanic Gardens; Connells Bay Sculpture Park, Waiheke Island; Southland Museum and Art Gallery; National Library Gallery of New Zealand and the James Wallace Trust.

Phil Price

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Phil Price, ‘Snake’
Phil Price was born in Nelson. He graduated from the University of Canterbury Ilam School of Fine Arts in 1990. Originally Price was an installation artist but after 2002 he turned his attention to outdoor wind-activated kinetic sculpture. He has exhibited widely in New Zealand and his artworks are held in private and public collections in New Zealand and overseas. His works are technically advanced with a unique use of composite construction and mechanical engineering.