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Whitecliffe students celebrated at Eden Arts Art Schools Awards 2020

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06/08/2020
Whitecliffe students celebrated at Eden Arts Art Schools Awards 2020

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Whitecliffe students were celebrated at the Eden Arts Art Schools Awards 2020 at the Webb’s in Mt Eden, with Fine Arts graduate Hulita Koloi walking away with a High Commended Award from the night for her piece Malaloi 2019.

 

In a collaborative venture with the major Central Auckland art institutions, the Eden Arts initiative presents the very best student works from each of Elam, Unitec, AUT and Whitecliffe in a single exhibition, awarding a cash prize to the overall winners.

 

For Eden Arts, this award (launched in 2011) seeks to complement our longstanding annual Young Artists Awards while extending the geographical area in which we can help to promote and support young artists.

 

The judges for this year’s event was artist Peata Larkin, Curator Kaitiaki Whakaaturanga at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery Chloe Geoghegan and freelance writer and curator Francis McWhannell.

 

 

Highly Commended – Hulita Koloi – Malaloi 2019

Clothing, concrete, scaffolding

Celine Frampton – 3152294-1930 c Enilec

3D Animation with sound

John Tiger Shen – Untitled – Made in China

Photographic prints



Gitanjali Bhatt – Wild Objects Operation

Multi media, found objects, moving images

Jorden Clifton – Lumiere du Soleil / Cliar de Lune

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Overall winners

  • Overall Winner – Brittany Walker Smith (Elam), “Have you ever been crying in a hospital in full drag?”
  • Highly Commended – Hulita Koloi (Whitecliffe), “Malaloi”
  • Highly Commended – Jimmy Ma’ia’i (Unitec), “Samoasonite”
  • Highly Commended – Kim lu (Unitec), “Silent Echo”
  • Board’s Choice – Jermaine Alhambra (AUT), “Reyna de las Flores”

See more photos from the night in the Gallery.