Visa Gold Art Award
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The Visa Gold Art Award was a contemportary art prize in New Zealand from 1991 to 1998.[1]
Recipients of the Visa Gold Art Award included some of New Zealand's most notable artists. In 1994, Luise Fong and Bill Hammond were announced as joint winners.[2] Luise Fong won with her work Minor.[3] Minor was later exhibited in the exhibition Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand, at Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany (1995) and City Gallery Wellington in New Zealand (1995-1996).[4] In 1995, Tony de Lautour took home the top prize. Fiona Pardington was the winner of the competition in 1997.[5] Fiona Pardington previously won the Visa Gold Art Award in 1991 for her artwork Soft Target. The work resembles an reliquary, and features a photograph surrounded by a wooden frame covered in contradictory religious messages.[6]
Controversy
When Susan Jowsey won in 1996 with an exhibit based on soiled clothing, people criticised her for having dirty laundry in a public space.[7]
References
- ↑ "Visa Gold Art Award Exhibition" (PDF). Bulletin (Winter June-August): 11. 1998.
- ↑ "Hammond and Fong share art award". The Press. Christchurch. 24 August 1994.
- ↑ "Art on show". The Dominion. Wellington. 13 August 1994.
- ↑ Gregory, Burke (1995). Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand. Germany: Erste Auflage. p. 51. ISBN 0-908818-30-0.
- ↑ "Visa Gold Art Awards". christchurchartgallery.org.nz. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ↑ "Soft Target I". Auckland Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
- ↑ Baskett, Pat (18 June 2025). "Art Award both curse and blessing". NZ Herald. Retrieved 18 June 2025.