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The Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Awards celebrates early achievement and is an investment in the careers of each recipient. Biennially five artists are Awarded $25,000 each, donated by Freemasons New Zealand. Each artist must have developed an individual identity that demonstrates richness, range and depth, and stand for the strength and quality of their particular art form in New Zealand, at their level. They will be at an early stage of their career, but will have already demonstrated excellence and innovation through an output of artistic work at high levels.
The Awards are available to artists working in any discipline. The Arts Foundation, in partnership with the arts community, selects artists without them knowing that they are under consideration. Applications are not required for the New Generation Awards.
Before accepting the Award, each New Generation recipient will be required to inform the Arts Foundation as to how they will use the Award to further their careers. The Foundation expects that some artists will invest the funds in new work or equipment, high level education or other development opportunities, or in some cases to buy time to focus on producing work. Glass Artist Christine Cathie created a colourful array of statuettes that were presented to New Generation Award recipients (see image above).
The inaugural New Generation Award recipients are Eve Armstrong - Visual Arts, Warren Maxwell - Musician, Tze Ming Mok - Writer, Joe Sheehan - Jeweller, and Taika Waititi - Film & Theatre.
To view interviews with the inaugural New Generation Artists, click here
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