Parkin Drawing Prize Finalist 2022

The tenth anniversary competition attracted an impressive 588 entries, making it the highest number of entries since 2014 – a year after the prize launched. Of those entries, the finalists can be seen in the short-list of 76 works have been selected for the national drawing competition.

My work Erosion has been selected for exhibition.

The exhibition opens on Monday 1 August 2022 and runs till Sunday 11 September at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts - Academy Gallery, 1 Queens Wharf, Wellington.

Beside the Whanganui, observing, watching the silt and soil and the changing banks and bends. Erosion is change, it is dynamic; cliffs eroding upstream become fertile flats downstream. We fight change, when instead we might learn to flow with the awa.