Visa Gold Art Award

Winners

Recipients of the Visa Gold Art Award included some of New Zealand's most notable artists. In 1994, Luise Fong and Bill Hammond were announced as joint winners.[3] Luise Fong won with her work Minor.[4] Minor was later exhibited in the exhibition Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand, at Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany (1995) and City Gallery Wellington in New Zealand (1995-1996).[5] In 1995, Tony de Lautour took home the top prize. Fiona Pardington was the winner of the competition in 1997.[2] Fiona Pardington previously won the Visa Gold Art Award in 1991 for Soft Target, a work framed with beaten, studded copper and gold-painted wood encrusted with contradictory religious images and texts.[6]

Controversy

When Susan Jowsey won in 1996 with soiled clothing, people criticised her for having dirty laundry in a public space.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Visa Gold Art Award Exhibition" (PDF). Bulletin (Winter June-August): 11. 1998.
  2. ^ a b "Visa Gold Art Awards". christchurchartgallery.org.nz. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
  3. ^ "Hammond and Fong share art award". The Press. Christchurch. 24 August 1994.
  4. ^ "Art on show". The Dominion. Wellington. 13 August 1994.
  5. ^ Gregory, Burke (1995). Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand. Germany: Erste Auflage. p. 51. ISBN 0-908818-30-0.
  6. ^ "Soft Target I". Auckland Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  7. ^ Baskett, Pat (18 June 2025). "Art Award both curse and blessing". NZ Herald. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
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