Categories and Prizes
Painting
Original paintings, examples include: watercolour, acrylic, oil, pastels, spray paint – no prints.
Waihi Paper Plus and Toyworld First Prize
$750 cash
Second Prize
$400 cash
Sculpture
3D sculptures, examples include pottery, assemblages, wood carving, glass, copper.
Coro Vets First Prize
$400 cash
Waihi Coffee Roasters Second Prize
$200 cash
Mixed Media
Art in which more than one medium or material has been used. Examples include assemblages, collages, hand-pulled prints, relief prints, intaglio prints, lithograph (not offset) screenprints and monotypes.
100% Waihi First Prize
$400 cash
Second Prize
$200 cash
Craft
Original design and not from a pattern or commercial kitset. Examples include ceramics, recyclables, textile crafts, leatherwork, origami, knitting, embroidery, crochet, felting, macrame.
First Prize
$400 cash
Second Prize
$200 cash
Photography
Original photography. Examples include film camera and photographic negative, panorama, pinhole photography, slides, cyanotypes. You may submit one artwork from a limited edition of 30 or less.
In Frame First Prize
$400 cash
Visique O'Hagan Vision Care Prize
$200 cash
Special awards
We have a number of special awards for different areas of focus this year. Our Young Star award is intended to reward young artists between the ages of 15-22, and showcase their work. Hauraki Repair + Reuse Centre are sponsoring a prize for Radical Reuse, the best use of items otherwise destined for recycling or landfill. Our regular People's Choice prize is available again, with voting over the weekend on your favourite piece!
Young Star
$100 cash
Hauraki Repair + Reuse Centre Radical Reuse
$50 cash + $50 store credit
People's Choice
$100 cash