2010 Finalists
These 30 regional finalists were selected from 530 entries from all around New Zealand. The four national IHC Telecom Art Award winners will be chosen on 21 September in Wellington.
Online bidding is now open and will close at 9am on Monday 20 September. The highest online bid for each artwork will be taken to the awards night and auction and submitted during the auction. Winning bidders will be informed on 22 September.
Artworks usually sell at the auction for between $300 and $1500, with an average sale price of $500.
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A Man from Doctor Who
Phillip Mannix
Lower Hutt - Dudley Arthouse
Paint on board
360mm x 1225mm
Top bid: $100
Phillip enjoys painting and has been a previous finalist in the IHC Telecom Art Awards.
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A Stormy Sea
Stephen Hitchings
Highly Commended
Kaikoura
Paint on cardboard
240mm x 320mm
Top bid: $75
Water, waves, boat.
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Auckland 2000/Motorway of City
Paul Sedgwick
Highly Commended
Hamilton - Sandz Gallery
Mixed media on board
1022mm x 440mm/1022mm x 540mm
Top bid: $200
"Vampires, Transylvania, motorway, maps, names of television programmes, theme songs, home & hospital, medical centre and direction."
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Bob's Whale
Bob Stephenson
Auckland - Spark Studio
Etching
145mm x 165mm
Top bid: $100
"The etching is hard work - and I love doing hard work. I can take my time, like, when you do the etchings, you can go through the lines, and take your time to do it. I feel great to see what I've done with my hard work. That's part of a whale, when he was swimming to the sea. I like them when they jumped. The last time I saw them when me and Dad went out fishing, that was amazing!"
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Boxes and Squares
Cherie Mellsopp
Hamilton - Sandz Gallery
Dots and silver pen on board
605mm x 605mm
Top bid: $100
"When I'm doing it, I'm happy."
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Envelopes
Wendy Best
Highly Commended
Lower Hutt - Dudley Arthouse
Felt tip pen on canvas paper
600mm x 800mm
Top bid: $140
“This took me a long time. I use my own colours and my own felt tip pens.”
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Face
Michael Williams
Dunedin - Studio 2
Dye on paper
575mm x 755mm
Top bid: $80
Michael has been going to Studio 2 for several years. He has strong ideas of what he likes to draw and paint, and has most recently been experimenting with different mediums. This work shows how well he is going with ink on paper, and using different ways of shading.
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Family Hei Tiki
Katie McMillan
Highly Commended
Auckland
Material, cotton, buttons
358mm x 630mm
Top bid: $250
"I enjoyed making them, it was lots of fun."
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Frame
Dianne Cadman
Highly Commended
Hamilton - Sandz Gallery
Drawing transfer paper and gesson on matt
620mm x 830mm
Top bid: $40
"Ironing, netball, horse, boat, deer and pliers. I like the squares and round shapes."
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Gold
Martin Kerschbaumer
Wellington - Alpha Art Studio
Acrylic on canvas
560mm x 560mm
Top bid: $250
"I like painting, I painted this one yellow. I would like to keep painting." Martin spends a lot of time on each painting, applying layers of light brush strokes to create beautiful depth.
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Green Street Princess
Fraser McManus
Nelson
Cardboard and papier-mache
740mm
Top bid: $50
"I got a picture of a cruiser and drew up a full scale plan with measurements, cut my cardboard to measurements, joined it together, papier-mached and painted it."
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Horse and Rider
Mason Pardoe
Hamilton
Acrylic on canvas
276mm x 379mm
Top bid: $50
"I've been around horses all my life. I had two of them in Gisborne. I used a dark colour for the background to show the shape of the horse."
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Houses and Churches
Vicki Dooley
Highly Commended
Lower Hutt - Dudley Arthouse
Felt tip pen on canvas paper
580mm x 770mm
Top bid: $150
"I got the idea for this picture from a library book with tall city buildings." Vicky uses felt tip pens to good effect in her art works and spends a lot of time on detail and colouring.
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Mesmerised by Pipelines
Steven Flutey
Gore
Felt tips on card
370mm x 470mm
Top bid: $40
"I love construction work and the sewer pipes inspired me to do this one."
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MGF Sportcar
Ross Hamilton
Christchurch - Your Studio Trust
Pencil on paper
195mm x 260mm
Top bid: $25
Ross Hamilton has been a student of Your Studio Trust in Christchurch for 10 years, he was one of the foundation students at the Studio's inception. He is particularly interested in cars which he copies from photographs. Ross uses a variety of media but particularly pencil, pastel and felt pens.
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Mother and Child
Chris Wills
Waiuku
Counted cross stitch on black aida cloth
645mm x 520mm
Top bid: $165
Chris is fascinated by graphs, charts and maps. He has limited counting ability but amazes everyone with his ability to count stitches regardless of cloth weave - fine linen through to canvas.
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My Face
Gail Rattenbury
Lower Hutt - Dudley Arthouse
Paint and pastel
410mm x 560mm
Top bid: $40
Gail likes doing portraits of herself and others.
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Pop Star Legend - Michael Jackson
Mary-Anne Donnelly
Highly Commended
Lower Hutt - Hutt Valley Disabled Resources Trust
Acrylic on paper
370mm x 490mm
Top bid: $80
“My favourite subjects for drawing and painting are people, pop stars and characters from Playstation.”
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Rainbow with Grass
Ashok Bava
Wellington - Alpha Art Studio
Acrylic on paper
450mm x 635mm
Top bid: $35
“This is all the pretty colours I did.”
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Recipes (and lots of them)
Dianne Hockridge
Highly Commended
Kaikoura
Ink on paper
460mm
Top bid: $41
Dianne is a fine-details person and loves using black ink pen. She was looking through recipe books and just started copying. This work took her a long time.
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Self Portrait
Fergus Allan
Lower Hutt - Hutt Valley Disabled Resources Trust
Acrylic on canvas
300mm x 300mm
Top bid: $40
“I am in my early sixties and have been doing art since my childhood.”
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Snooks
Maurice Toohey
Hawera
Acrylic on canvas
600mm x 500mm
Top bid: $70
“I like painting faces and the colour red.”
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The Stage
Christopher Wright
Highly Commended
North Otago
Wood, paint and fabric
Top bid: $100
“Alice in Wonderland, Mad Hatter and Snow White. I am a man who likes building things and working with Oamaru stone.”
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The Supa Dupa Characters
Blair Houghton
Hamilton - Sandz Gallery
Pencil on watercolour paper
295mm x 215 mm (each)
Top bid: $160
"These are Supa Dupa heroes, some of the heroes are my friends and some are made up."
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Tiger
Pam Duff
Dunedin - Art Space
Oil-based ink on printing foam
215mm x 240mm
Top bid: $35
"This is a tiger that I drew on printing foam. Then we rolled ink on the foam and pressed down, when we pulled the paper off there was a tiger there! "
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Tiger - Wild Cat
Rosalie Davey
Auckland - Spark Studio
Screenprint on fabric
360mm x 420mm
Top bid: $80
"Today I am a happy girl - a clever, good artist. I am doing well. I am a clever girl. I do like coming here to art classes. I do like making pictures and am doing good work. I do like drawing birds. I do like drawing leaves. I do like cutting out. I do like being quiet. I do like my friends here. I do like coffee and a biscuit. I do like helping to clean up. I come for the day. I have a good time. I have to talk well. I have to be the best, nice girl at art class.”
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Untitled
Paul Griffiths
Hamiilton - Sandz Gallery
Acrylic on card
730mm x 970mm
Top bid: $50
“Squares first, drawing, painting and colour."
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Vase of Flowers
Anthony McIlroy
Lower Hutt - Dudley Arthouse
Paper collage, ink and copper paint
460mm x 330mm
Top bid: $55
Anthony is quite new at Dudley Street and has become interested in collage work. He has a great eye for detail and already has some interested customers.
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Vases
Ricky White
Dunedin - Studio 2
Acrylic on canvas
295mm x 395mm
Top bid: $150
“I find art really enjoyable. I like using paint and drawing, and when I have finished my art I feel really proud of what I have done. I haven’t been going to art classes for very long but I like learning different ways of how to paint things.”
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Walking Somewhere
Grahame Hitchings
Kaikoura
Paper drawing, photocopies and mounted
Top bid: $100
“Photocopies of work I had drawn myself, put on black card, walking somewhere.”
