Enjoy gallery + National Drawing awards

The National Drawing Award 2008/9 is the third in an ongoing biennial event hosted by New Zealand's leading independent contemporary art galleries: ARTSPACE, Auckland and The Physics Room, Christchurch. This year Enjoy Public Art Gallery is proud to join the NDA. The exhibition has traveled from Auckland to Christchurch and will soon open in Wellington.

The National Drawing Award 2008/9
21 Feb 2009 - 14 Mar 2009

Opening: Friday 20 February 2009 6pm

361 drawings were entered from all over New Zealand for The National Drawing Award 2008/9. With an open call for entries, this exhibition creates an opportunity for a broad range of people to participate; all entries are exhibited at ARTSPACE, The Physics Room and Enjoy. Similarly, the People's Choice Award, which was announced on 7 February 2009 enabled the visiting public to have an active role in judging part of the competition by popular vote. Recently announced winners of the People's Choice are Casey Jane O'Connell and Chloe Marsters. See the Enjoy blog for images of thier winning drawings and social pages from The Physics Room: http://enjoypublicartgallery.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-pages-from-national-drawing.html

The winner of the National Drawing Award 2008/9 was announced on 28 November: John Ward Knox. His drawing entitled myrrh (above) was selected as the winner out of 361 drawings by former ARTSPACE Director Brian Butler, Director of The Physics Room: Kate Montgomery and Enjoy's Curator Siv B. Fjærestad.