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Opunake’s Taranaki National Art Awards opened last Friday evening and winners for this year were announced. In its eleventh year, the annual awards are a national competition offering an opportunity for artists to exhibit and sell their artwork, with the added bonus of a $11,750 prize pool over seven sections.

Judges Professor Robert Jahnke and Ruth Harvey awarded this years prizes to:

TSB Community Trust Painting Award ($2000) Anne Holliday - Leo Dying - New Plymouth

TSB Community Trust Highly Commended ($500) Andre Bronnimann – Hemi - Whanganui

Fred & Eunice Rodie Charitable Trust Rural Taranaki Award ($2000) Jasmine Middlebrook – The Unfaithful Shepherd – New Plymouth

Fred & Eunice Rodie Charitable Trust Highly Commended ($500) Laurel Davis – Gumboots in a Southerly Gale - New Plymouth

Shell Todd Oil Services Ltd 3D Award ($1000) Dr Kathryn Wightman – Curious - Whanganui

Shell Todd Oil Services Ltd Highly Commended ($500) Remo Roger Morris – Little Bird of War - Oeo

Gibson Plumbing/Corkill Systems/Sinclair Electrical Works on Paper Award ($1000) Margaret Silverwood – Womb Chair - Whanganui

Farmlands Highly Commended ($500) Rodolfo Banaticla Jr – Back in Black - Auckland

Opunake Buisnesses Fibre Art Award ($1000) Jacqueline Elley – Muka Moon – New Plymouth

Gail Drought Highly Commended ($250) Patricia Took-Stevens – The Travelling Salesman’s Fruit and Vege Samples - Rangiora

Tui Ora Ltd & Parininihi Ki Waitotara Trust Toi Tu Taranaki Award ($1000) Steve Molloy – Forward Focus – New Plymouth

M, J & R Collins Highly Commended ($250) Lester Ransfield – The Taranaki Warrior - Pungarehu

TSB Community Trust Photography Award ($1000) Rebecca Scott – Lost image 198618691902 - Oakura

Pastimes Highly Commended ($250) Jeff Drabble – Text De-sending – Hastings

The Taranaki National Art Awards Exhibition is on display 10am-4pm daily, from 27 October – 3 November 2012 at Sandford Events Centre, Opunake. Entry is $2.

Check the website for all winners and we hope to see artists form far and wide take up this awards opportunity next year - www.taranakiartawards.co.nz