The Parkin Drawing Prize is Aotearoa New Zealand’s premier award for drawing. It promotes drawing in all its forms – as discovery, a testing of ideas, and decision making.

Congratulations to the 2024 winner of the Parkin Drawing Prize.

Chris Parkin and Ella Jones with " The Visual World is Inexhaustible"

Ella Jones from Lower Hutt has been announced the winner of the 2024 Parkin Drawing Prize and $25,000 - sponsored by Chris Parkin, arts patron, and philanthropist. 

Ella’s winning piece, titled The Visual World is Inexhaustible, is a captivating graphite drawing of 120 paper drawings on graphite interwoven with steel wire that cascades elegantly down a wall. Chosen from a pool of 463 entries nationwide and 77 finalists at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts’ Academy Galleries on Monday, August 5th, this artwork stood out for its striking originality. READ MORE

 

See all finalist artwork here.

See here to view artwork details, price and Artist statements.

Parkin Drawing Prize Exhibition 2024

6 August - 1 September 2024.
New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts

1 Queens Wharf, Wellington, NZ. Daily 10am - 5pm

Entry is free - koha is appreciated.  

All the artworks are for sale, giving admirers and collectors the opportunity to purchase some wonderful pieces.

 

 

 
 

2024 Parkin Drawing Prize

See finalist artwork here.

WINNER

Ella Jones | The visual world is inexhaustible SOLD

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Theodore Brookes | Early days SOLD

Felix Conlan | Eye opener SOLD

Nela Fletcher | Tumour ballet

Karl Fritsch | freeling

Veronica Herber | Awareness, the key to it all

John Ward Knox | no title  SOLD

Lisa Munnelly | Aether

Samuel Pepper | Ted  SOLD

Morag Stokes | Ostinato

Jarad Tom | Looking out through nine body holes drawn with my mother pen

See here to view artwork details, price and Artist statements.

ALL FINALISTS

Jay Allen | Seed Vault, amid concerns of flooding SOLD

Duncan Anderson | Coffee at work, three times - 10:25, 12:08, 14:53, 03.11.23

Tom Armstrong | Creatures at the bottom SOLD

Dave Ashburn | Pencil Drawing

Melanie Badenhorst | The map of Africa lost SOLD

Jordan Barnes | Intrusions

Theodore Brookes | Early Days SOLD

David Brown | Iterations of Solace and Pleasure SOLD

Kata Brown | Artist’s Desk (From 10 Years Old)

Kara Burrowes | Castemblage

Beatrice Carlson | it flows blue

Warren Chilton | Study in Empathy No’1

Julia Christey | Silence of Birds

Linda Cook | The Painting Stripped Bare

Felix Conlan | Eye Opener SOLD

Kyla Cresswell | Wetland: Kōreti VI

Deborah Crowe | Sightline Shifts

Madeleine Cunliffe | Nothing Gold Can Stay

Michael De Bois | Between Binaries: an Abridged Gender Identity Spectrum

Cecilia Denén | Composition with landscape

Peter Derksen | Heatwave

Anita DeSoto | Her Peace of Pink and Bite of Justice, after Corrado

Sam Dollimore | Projecting, again

Cameron Drawbridge | Homage to John Drawbridge

Alice Fennessy | Sunday Morning

Nela Fletcher | Tumour ballet

Peter Force | Riot

Stuart Forsyth | If I had muscles, I’d be a better dad

Karl Fritsch | Freeling

Sandy Gibbs | E.1027 (two elevations) SOLD

Robyn Gibson | Len Lye and Leonardo da Vinci - Red Line Motion

Emily Harris | When Darkness Steals the Light

Sandra Heffernan | Life lines

Veronica Herber | Awareness, The key to it All II

Lesa Hepburn | Premonition

Jutta Humpfer | Play my Strings

Jutta Humpfer | Humba Tāterā

Glen Hutchins | Night Shift

Adrian Jackman | Field Recording

Raymond Jennings | Christo’s Studio

Ella Jones | The visual world is inexhaustable WINNER SOLD

Motoko Kikkawa | Many things happening behind us

Simon King | Waka Hourua

Verity Kindleysides | Ilsa 2 - The Yellow Wallpaper

Marie Lotz | The Red Sampler SOLD

Philip Madill | Soma

Tanya Milton | What the Persian carpet didn’t say

Lisa Matthys | Pick up

Rose Meyer | Tāmaki Makaurau’s 53 Volcanos

Laura Mirebeau | Dispersion // Connection

Birgit Moffatt | Shaping Identity

Jane Molloy-Wolt | The Darkest Nights SOLD

Jane Molloy-Wolt | Ink Script

Lisa Munnelly | Aether

Stef Naldi | Restless

Paul Nankivell | Pianola Passion SOLD

Gill Newland | Five Squares

Emma Page | Yellow Sketch

Robyn Penn | The world is not a collection of things, it is a collection of events. Lawn I

Samuel Pepper | Ted SOLD

Brie Rate | Purau reserve stairs SOLD

Debbie Reynolds | Footpath Finds

Vicky Robertson | Bills to Pay

Clark Roworth | Crush - from my sketchbook

David Shennan | Before Peace . . . Chaos

Anne Shirley | The Messages SOLD

Morag Stokes | Ostinato

Jarad Tom | Looking Out Through Nine Body Holes Drawn With My Mother Pen

Debbie Tubb | Obedient Resistance

Raewyn Turner & Brian Harris | In No Small Measure

Raewyn Turner | Your Name is Like Perfume

Anna Turnbull | Portrait (after Corot)

Guy van der Wilt | A house for Guy

Celia Walker | Drawing Breath

John Ward Knox No title SOLD

Clara Wells | Me, Him and the Seismograph

Kathryn Wightman | Disrupted

 

 

TIMELINE

Wednesday 28 February 2024 

Entries opened.

Tuesday 4 June 2024

Entries closed 1pm. 

26 June 2024

Works shortlisted for the prize announced.

 Monday 15 July – Friday 26 July 2024 

Works shortlisted for the prize to arrived at the Academy by 4pm.

 5 August 2024

The winner announced at the official awards evening at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts.

6 August – 1 September 2024 

The exhibition open to the public.

Parkin Drawing Prize reserves the right to change any of the above dates.

 

 

 

 

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