As part of the Preview day for The Walters Prize 2018, coordinating curator Natasha Conland presents a special talk for Gallery Members in the auditorium on this year's nominated artworks.
The Walters Prize is Aotearoa New Zealand’s most significant contemporary art award. Established in 2002, this year will be the tenth iteration of the Walters Prize, which was conceived as a platform to foreground excellence in the visual arts. Come and hear the jury discussing four artworks, selected for their outstanding contributions to contemporary art in New Zealand in the preceding two-year period.
Adriano Pedrosa, Artistic Director at the globally renowned São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), Brazil, has been appointed as the international judge for this year’s Walters Prize.
The invited jury for the 2018 Walters Prize discuss the four finalist’s works that were chosen by them as the most outstanding contributions to contemporary art in New Zealand during the last two years.
Hear Walters Prize 2016 finalist Shannon Te Ao in conversation with Anthony Bryt, writer and Director of Research, Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design.
Megan Tamati-Quennell, Curator Modern & Contemporary Māori & Indigenous Art at Te Papa Tongarewa, discusses the work of 2016 Walters Prize finalist Lisa Reihana.
Director of the Physics Room, Christchurch, Jamie Hanton discusses Nathan Pohio’s work Raise the anchor, unfurl the sails, set course to the centre of an ever setting sun? which is a finalist in the 2016 Walters Prize.
Join the coordinator of the 'Doing Our Bit' campaign to double New Zealand's refugee quota, Murdoch Stephens, who has been selected by Walters Prize finalist Shannon Te Ao to speak on his work Two shoots that stretch far out2013–14.
Indulge in streetARTdego, a creative-food-meets-artist-extravaganza in and around the Gallery that pairs top food vendors with renowned artists. Enjoy a live performance from Pacific Heights, after-hours entry to the Walters Prize exhibition, food by Judge Bao and drinks from the ArtDego Pop-Up Bar.
Join us at She Claims: Art Matters, a series of events where you’ll rub elbows with creatives and critics while celebrating the ideas, voices and power of creative women. In session five of this series visual artist Ruth Buchanan will talk with curator Natasha Conland about her creative practice, drive, culture and the key topics in her work she cares deeply about.
Join us for an advance screening of Boom for Real, a documentary about one of 80s New York's most charming and hailed (street) art darlings: Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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