Congratulations to Josephine Cachemaille, Mickey Smith & Kāryn Taylor who have been shortlisted for the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award 2025.
With a prize pool of more than $25,000, the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award is Aotearoa New Zealand's longest running art prize and is open to practitioners working across all art forms.
This year, fifty artists were selected out of a record 548 entries by three pre-liminary judges. The pre-liminary judges include James Gatt, Curator, Te Uru, Dr. Elliot Collins, Ph.D. Visual Art, and Fiona Jack, Head of School, Fine Art, ELAM, The University of Auckland.
The finalist award is judged by the sole Guest Judge, Sonya Korohina (Ngāti Porou, Whānau a Hunāra) Director of the Tauranga Art Gallery, in person when the work is curated and hung.
The Awards ceremony takes place Saturday 1st February 2025 and the finalist exhibition will be on display in the Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre - Te Kōputu a te Whanga a Toi, 49 Kakahora Drive, Whakatāne.
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