Grace Butler Memorial Foundation Award at Ara 2024/25
Expressions of interest are requested from artists for the Grace Butler Memorial Foundation Award at Ara 2024/25.
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Expressions of interest are requested from artists for the Grace Butler Memorial Foundation Award at Ara 2024/25. The Award was established by the artist’s daughter, Grace Adams (1923 – 2012), and the Grace Butler Memorial Foundation in memory of artist Grace Butler (1886 – 1962) and is a bi-annual award.
A Contemporary Art Award established in memory of Waitaha Canterbury artist Grace Butler (1886 – 1962), the Grace Butler Memorial Foundation Award at Ara is a biennial three month residency, inclusive of a grant of $20,000 and studio at Ara School of Art and Design.
The Award invites artists whose practice gives consideration to place and environment, natural and/or built and, in a wider context, have an affiliation with Waitaha Canterbury. For more than four decades Grace Butler’s paintings bridged the divide between 19th century landscape painting and mid-20th century modernism. As a woman artist, Butler’s paintings served as a model for the generation that followed.
The selection panel for the Award in 2024 are: Lecturer in Art History at the University of Canterbury, Rosie Ibbotson, artist and educator Kim Lowe, and Chloe Cull, (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi te Ruahikihiki) Pouarataki Curator Māori position, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. Recipients of the Award to date are: Zina Swanson 2018, Louise Palmer 2020 and Ana Iti 2022.
The Grace Butler Memorial Foundation and Ara Institute of Canterbury is “honoured and excited to be supporting artists and the legacy of Grace Butler’s estate, contributing to advancing the visual arts in Aotearoa New Zealand for generations to come.”
IMAGE: Grace Butler, On the Beach, New Brighton, 1916, oil on canvas, Christchurch Art Gallery Foundation Collection, purchased 1996, 608 x 760mm, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puina o Waiwhetū