Get in quick everyone…submissions close this Monday 4 June 2012!

$10,000 annual non-acquisitive award open to Australia or New Zealand artists of all ages and disciplines, who are not enrolled as students and whose work is not held in the collection of a state, territory or national public art gallery.

The competition is administered by Viscopy. The winner will be announced at the opening of the exhibition on August 14. The finalists’ exhibition is curated by Venita Poblocki.  The prize will be judged by Wayne Tunnicliffe, Head Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of NSW and artists, Bronwyn Bancroft and Kath Fries.

Entries close 4 June, 5pm.
Finalists’ exhibition to be held at Gaffa Galleries Sydney 11 Aug–1 Sept.

Contact information:

http://www.viscopy.org.au/john-fries-prize

Email: jfmp@viscopy.org.au or phone +61 (02) 9310 2018

Milford Galleries Dunedin
26 May – 6 June 2012
‘Polyneitus Spring’ is a series of tales told in Andy Leleisi’uao’s distinctive visual language. Reminiscent of pre-literate civilisations that used glyphs and pictograms to portray their stories, Leleisi’uao creates a powerful and complex narrative stream for his own invented world.

Metoclopramide

Small and personal histories are given the same treatment as grand historical events in this photographic exhibition.  Andrea Low has photographs in the group exhibition opening at Artstation next week. Where photography not only represents important narratives but also the overlooked, the hardly noticed, and the archived, and captures the history of the everyday.  Opening Tuesday 5 June 6 – 9pm.  Artists talk Saturday 16 June 2-3pm.

A free dance performance and community discussion.
When: Weds May 30th at 7:30pm
Where: Otahuhu Community Centre, 10-16 High St, Otahuhu

Fanau Tangata is a contemporary dance piece choreographed by Amanaki Prescott that takes traditional Tongan tau’olunga and brings it into a modern context.

Amanaki, a fakaleiti, performs the female role in the piece with four male dancers portraying the men in her life.

In order to open up a dialogue about the preservation of Tongan culture and art there will be an open discussion with the audience following the performance.

Please come along and take part in this important discussion.

2013 Exhibitions – Calling all Artists

Organisation: Wallace Gallery
Job: Call to all Artists – Exhibit in 2013.  Please request an application form if you would like to be considered to exhibit in Wallace Gallery.
Location: Morrinsville
Closing Date: Friday, 31 August 2012
Contact: info@morrinsvillegallery.org.nz

Art after Dark’ Light Sculpture Installation

Organisation: The Quarry Arts Centre
Job: ‘Art after Dark’ – Light Sculpture Installation — Call for entries.  At the heart of the Festival of Light and Art is the artists’ installations to be located around the Quarry site. Artists are called on to submit proposals to install sculptures that incorporate light to the Quarry grounds for the festival.
Location: Whangarei CBD
Closing Date: Monday, 10 September 2012
Contact: admin@quarryarts.org

A MAORI BATTALION PLAY WITH NO MAORI
Half an hour with four Pasifika soldiers in the 28th (Maori) Battalion.

The theatre debut of scriptwriter D F Mamea, Goodbye My Feleni.

Thursday 14 June to Saturday 16 June 2012, at the Herald Theatre in Auckland.

Goodbye My Feleni is set in 1942 and takes place at Trentham Army Camp in Wellington.In D Company (also known as Ngati Walkabout) of the 28th (Maori) Battalion, the youthful confidence of three young Pasifika soldiers is shaken by the last minute replacement of their lieutenant.  Their new leader may well be a battle-hardened veteran but he is also an unwelcome reminder of the soldiers’ mortality.

Playwright David Mamea (Safune/Safotu, Samoa) had assumed Pacific Islanders had fought in the Second World War. “I was listening to the Maori Battalion CD a few years back, and when I heard
someone talking in Samoan, introducing two Samoan songs… something seized my heart: that seventy years earlier, and half way around the world, four young Pasifika men sang of their homelands and their fears. I had to write something around that.”

Goodbye My Feleni is written by D F Mamea, produced by Jenni Heka, and directed by Chris Molloy. Playing the Pasifika soldiers are Shadon Meredith, Andy Sani, Leki Jackson Bourke, and
Samson Chan-Boon.

Intern – Contemporary Art Gallery
Closing Date: Friday, 1 June 2012
Contact: antart@xtra.co.nz (09) 309 0310
Organisation: Antoinette Godkin Gallery
Work: Administration – Arts/Part-Time
Job: The intern will work closely with the director in developing projects and assisting on tasks. They will learn about conceiving and installing exhibitions, maintaining a client database, organizing and distributing marketing materials and web content management. Communication with and between artists, clients and media. We need someone very self-motivated, not afraid to ask questions, someone who shows initiative and feels comfortable interacting with a range of people from clients to artists. An undergraduate student or graduate within the Arts with a passion for contemporary art, who wishes to gain experience within the field. Administrative experience is important as the role requires someone computer savvy. This 6 – 12 month unpaid internship (Thursday and Fridays, 12 – 5pm) provides a wide array of experience and knowledge within the industry, for those interested and willing to learn. www.antoinettegodkin.co.nz

Please submit a coverletter and your CV to antart@xtra.co.nz

Administration – good computer skills, excellent communication skills, art knowledge/interest
Start date:
Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Leaving Forward

Beginner Illustrator / Storyboard Artist
Contact: leavingforward@gmail.com

Closing Date: Friday, 1 June 2012
Organisation: Leaving Forward
Work: Illustrator
Job: An opportunity for a student or beginner illustrator / storyboard artist to create a storyboard for a ten minute short film currently in pre-production.  No prior experience required.  If interested please contact with a portfolio / brief example of work.
This opportunity is:  Paid (…but low).

Graphic Designer Intern

Contact: lara.jane@yforyouth.org

Organisation: Y for YOUTH

Closing Date: Tues 29 May 2012
Work: Design Graphic  Temporary/Part-Time
Job: Y for YOUTH is an exciting new charitable concept recently set up to challenge the status quo and deliver sustainable funding to youth organizations throughout New Zealand.

We are looking for a dynamic and goal driven Graphic Designer to join our team. You will be one of the founding members working closely with the Y for YOUTH management team in a social enterprise that is dedicated to providing sustained funding and resources to youth organisations and programs so they are able to scale up to positively impact a greater number of youth nationwide.

This is an ideal opportunity for a student with an impeccable sense of design who is motivated to contribute their time to make a difference to the lives of our youth and at the same time build their portfolio. You must have your own computer with the Adobe suite CS 5.

CNZ Arts Pasifika Award Winners 2011

Closing date: Friday, 22 June 2012

Nominations for the Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards 2012 are now open. The five awards celebrate excellence and innovation in Pacific arts in New Zealand.

The annual awards offer the public a chance to acknowledge artists who best characterise the richness and diversity of high-quality Pacific art in this country.  Artists can be emerging or established, and practice either heritage or contemporary artforms.

Established in 1996, this year sees a change in nomination criteria to ensure even more quality Pacific artists have the chance to be honoured.  The Iosefa Enari Memorial Award is now open to Pacific musicians or composers from all classical genres and career stages, as well as opera singers. For the first time artists who would like to nominate themselves are able to do so.

The Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards 2012 are:

Senior Pacific Artist’s Award ($10,000)

Pacific Heritage Arts Award ($5000)

Pacific Contemporary Arts Award ($5000)

Iosefa Enari Memorial Award ($4000)

Emerging Pacific Artists’ Award ($4000)

The closing date for nominations is 5pm, Friday 22 June 2012.

An awards ceremony will be held on 14 November 2012 in Wellington.

Pacific Voices

There is not much to tell you about this show, except that it looks amazing.  From 3 – 21 July OREX Gallery are showing three Pacific artists: Irami Buli (Fijian), Josua Toganivalu (Fijian) and Glen Wolfgramm (NZ Tongan).  We’ll give you more details as it becomes available.

Avodart

Questions around documentary practice have long centered on a battle between representation and meaning over sensation. This exhibition seeks to rethink the parameters of documentary by examining practices that critique ideas concerning witness, truth and account, whilst also challenging the idea that documentary itself is inherently biased and politically dodgy.

Taking Ans Westra’s iconic and controversial images from Washday at the Pa (1964) as an initial point to think about representation, the exhibition In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary offers new ways to read, understand and interpret documentary practices through a historical and contemporary focus.

Mark Adams, Louisa Afoa, Sophia Al-Maria, David Cook, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, John Lake, Darcy Lange, Jae Hoon Lee, Janet Lilo, Sarah Murphy, Walid Raad, Haruhiko Sameshima, Ann Shelton, Shigeru Takato, Luke Willis Thompson, Vandy Rattana, Ans Westra.

Curated by Fiona Amundsen, Dieneke Jansen and Vera Mey

Opening Thursday 24 May, 5:30 pm

25 May – 29 June, 2012, ST PAUL St Galleries One & Two, 40 St Paul St, AUT