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 2022 winner of the Parkin Drawing Prize

Siân Stephens the winner of the 2022 Parkin Drawing Prize
Siân Stephens from Wellington has been announced the winner of the 2022 Parkin Drawing Prize and $25,000 – sponsored by Chris Parkin, arts patron, and philanthropist. Read more.
“This tenth anniversary of the Parkin Drawing Prize is a real milestone in our nation’s art history. Thanks to Chris Parkin for his unfailing support of drawing and the visual arts. The Academy has been pleased to support the award since its inception and looks forward to yet another wonderful and thought provoking competition this year.”
Ray Smith, NZAFA President
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See 2022 Finalist Artwork here
Congratulations to the Parkin Drawing Prize
2022 Winner
Siân Stephens Liam Cutting His Hair After An All-nighter (Wellington) - Not For Sale
2022 Merit Awards
Denise Batchelor Mark-Making, Slowly (Omapere)
Robyn Penn Hold Time (Auckland)
Veronica Herber Joy Net (Auckland)
Jordan Barnes The Artist in Situ (The War of Art) (New Plymouth)
Sam Dollimore Do You Think Dreams Are Shared Space (Let’s Talk About it Tonight) (Porirua)
Felicity Bergstrom I Captured Your Being (Waipawa)
Lisa Call Aragon (Paraparaumu)
Ina Johann Mapping Another Life: A State of Being in Disguise of a Cloud/Glitches 2022 (Christchurch)
Simon Nicholls Rugosity (Hamilton)
Lea-Anne Sheather Blessings Bequeathed (Whakatane)
See 2022 Judges comments here
2022 Parkin Drawing Prize Finalists
Rebecca Agnew - The Britney Spears Freedom Galaxy Endowment
Kathy Barber - Plume
Gareth Barlow - In Their Presence You Will Grow
Jordan Barnes - The Artist In Situ ( The War of Art ) MERIT
Denise Batchelor - Mark Making, Slowly MERIT
Janet Bathgate - Micrographica Anxietacea
Felicity Bergstrom - I Captured Your Being MERIT
Louie Bretana - Nature Waits Underneath The Concrete
Laura Buchanan - Names Will Never Hurt Us
Esther Bunning - Celebral Unravel
Esther Bunning / Catherine Daniels - Pixelated Memories
Lisa Call - The Journey
Lisa Call - Aragon MERIT
Hana Carpenter - Land Body
Greg Chaston - R.N. Barnes
Katherine Claypole - A Temporal Anomaly
Pass the Blue Collective - Restless
Zoe Cromwell - We Are a People of Hope
Brenna Crump - Boston Terrier
Akiko Diegel - Thinker
Akiko Diegel - David
Inge Kuindersma Doig - Faces in the Sand
Sam Dollimore - Do You Think Dreams Are Shared Space (Let’s Talk About it Tonight) MERIT
Wana Ellison - Vol. 2, pg. 65
Leslie Falls - Ophelia and Arthur go to Town Part 2
Nicholas Fields - We Are Made of the Same Stuff
Stuart Forsyth - Self -portrait
Robyn Gibson - 14 Things
James Gilbert-Milne - 974:1223
Brett Harfield - 20/20
Raewyn Turner / Brian Harris - Sort
Emily Harris - Down In the Valley By the Stream
Rowan Heap - Tomboy
Vishmi Helaratne - Vishmi’s Web
Lesa Hepburn - Erosion
Veronica Herber - Joy Net MERIT
Veronica Herber - Burnish
Ina Johann - Mapping Another Life - A State of Being in Disguise of a Cloud/Glitches 2022 MERIT
Locust Jones - Isolation Is Bad For Business
Katherine Joyce-Kellaway - (un)certainty
Motoko Kikkawa - Weathers
Erika Kruger - Freak Show
Helen Lenihan - Scorched Earth 3
Kate MacKenzie - Refugees
Friday Meulengracht-Madsen - MeatSack #2
Rosemary Mortimer - Fragile Worlds
Deborah Moss - This Is The Place
Kylie Murrle - Metaverse
Samantha Murton - I Don’t Know What The Doctor Said
Debbie Neill - Evanescence lV-ll
Debbie Neill - Evanescence Xl-l
Gill Newland - Loop de Doo-dle
Simon Nicholls - Rugosity MERIT
Rachel Hope Peary - Scrawl
Robyn Penn - Hold Time MERIT
Roberta Queiroga - The Divorce Dress
Helen Reynolds - Black 1.113 (Doubt and Certainty)
Peter Rive - Untitled (Studio Floor)
Francis Salole - The Ossuary (In Deep Water)
Lea-Anne Sheather - Blessings Bequeathed MERIT
Louann Sidon - A Kind of Pale Jewel
Margaret Silverwood - Sunflower
Anne-Marie Simon - Sombre
Madeleine Slavick - In Times Like These
Jo Stallard - There’s Always Something About Gaia
Sian Stephens - Liam Cutting His Hair After An All-nighter WINNER
Jane Tan - Journal Entry - Air
Ashia Te Moananui - Schizophrenia is the Art of Seeing the Invisible
Emma Theyers - Untitled (Riverton Stone 3)
Cathy Tuato’o Ross - Charites
Briar Tucker - For Just a Moment on the Lips
Greta Umbers - Forecast
Folina Vili - Untitled (hair) diptych
Christopher- David White - Sound of the Crowd
Billy Wilson - Tearing Strips 10
Bonnie Wroe - Jane
TIMELINE
9 March 2022
Entries are open.
31 May 2022
Entry closed at 4pm.
Late entries will not be accepted.
27 June 2022
Works shortlisted for the prize announced.
22 July 2022
Works shortlisted for the prize to arrive at the Academy, 4pm.
1 August 2022
The winner was announced at the official awards evening at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts.
2 August - 11 September 2022
The exhibition is open to the public.
WINNERS
Where are they now?
2021: Mark Braunias
2020: Poppy Lekner
2019: Michael Dell
2018: Jacqui Colley
2017: Kirsty Lillico
2015: Gabrielle Amodeo
2013: Monique Jansen











