Fulbright New Zealand launched a new award for New Zealand
visual artists in June, in partnership with The James Wallace Arts Trust.
The Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award will allow an outstanding mid-career
or senior New Zealand visual artist to undertake a three-month residency
at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California.
Fulbright New Zealand’s Executive Director
Mele Wendt, The James Wallace Arts Trust Manager Brian Wood and James
Wallace celebrate the launch of the new Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust
Award at James Wallace’s residence Rannoch
Applications for the new award will be made through the annual Wallace
Art Awards, the longest running and largest annual awards for contemporary
art in New Zealand. The recipient will undertake a three month residency
at Headlands Center for the Arts, which is located across the Golden Gate
bridge from San Francisco, in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands.
The award will provide accommodation, a private art studio, meals and
access to services, facilities and equipment at Headlands, as well as
a monthly stipend, international travel costs and insurance cover.
Headlands is housed in a cluster of historic, early 1900s military buildings
overlooking the entrance to San Francisco Bay, which were turned over
to the National Park Service in 1972 and have been used to host visiting
artists since 1985. Over 700 artists have held residencies at Headlands,
where they are free to investigate, collaborate and experiment without
commitment to a finished product.
The new, jointly-funded award compliments existing awards offered by both
Fulbright New Zealand and The James Wallace Arts Trust. This year, Fulbright
awards will support exchanges to the US by Wellington visual artist Kerry
Ann Lee, Martinborough glass artists Jim Dennison and Leanne Williams,
and Auckland filmmakers Toa Fraser and Briar March. Fulbright alumni include
Julian Daspher, Laurence Aberhart, Manos Nathan, Darcy Nicholas, Carole
Shepheard and many other renowned New Zealand artists.
International exchange is also an important feature of the annual Wallace
Art Awards, prizes for which also include residencies in New York, Vermont,
and Solothurn, Switzerland. Winners of the Wallace Trust Paramount Award
undertake a six month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial
Programme in New York.
Launching the new award at Rannoch in Auckland, esteemed New Zealand art
collector and patron James Wallace said: “Our awards have evolved
over the 18 years they have been in place, but the addition of the Fulbright-Wallace
Arts Trust Award greatly adds to the status of the overall competition.”
James Wallace talks with 2009 Fulbright New Zealand
graduate student Briar March at the Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award
launch
