Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Awards

The Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Awards is an exhibition that brings together top Masters students from AUT, Elam, Unitec and Whitecliffe art schools.

The 2014 winner of the Awards was Alex Plumb of AUT, with his three-channel video work Ivy Blue. Judge John Daly-Peoples says of Alex's winning work:

"Artists have always created stories, forming real and imagined worlds. Here the stories are distinct ... yet impenetrable ... but intriguing. Unlike some videos which can go on too long there is a sense of containment - we have are only being shown a slice of these worlds, like traces of dreams or memories. I also like the way that the images have simplicity to them and they refer back to standard painterly forms: the domestic interior, the still life and the figure study. These tableaus are somewhere between a visual poem and a mysterious story which refer to the everyday but also manages to capture something of the universality of human experience and our search for meaning." 

The winner of the Barfoot and Thompson award was Clarence Lomiwes of Unitec, with his interactive multimedia work Tiger Lily (ver. 12).

Glaister Ennor initiated the award in 2006 to help emerging artists in Auckland. Previous winners of the GEAA have included David Austin, Myah Flynn, Matthew Carter, Kirsten Roberts, Lucy Hughes and Diane Scott.

The 2014 nominees were:
Janette Cervin (Unitec)
Rose Croucher (Unitec)
Ekarasa Doblanovic (AUT)
Kirsten Fitzsimons (AUT)
Vanessa Gleye (Unitec)
Ziggy Lever (AUT)
Clarence Lomiwes (Unitec)
Peter Malone (Unitec)
Becky Nunes (Whitecliffe)
Alex Plumb (AUT)
Ponticinque (Whitecliffe)
Lea-Anne Sheather (Whitecliffe)
Sorawit Songsataya (Elam)