Hastings City Art Gallery awards four Gwen Malden Te Matau-a-Māui Contemporary Art Commissions

Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery partners with the Gwen Malden Charitable Trust to award four local artists contemporary art commissions worth $40,000.
Te Kīra Whakamoe and Hā artists, HĀUKATI. Installation view, Ahuriri Contemporary, July 2022

Four local artists have been selected for the Gwen Malden Te Matau-a-Māui Contemporary Art Commissions, a new biennial programme of significant contemporary art commissions, thanks to a partnership between Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery and the Gwen Malden Charitable Trust.

The four selected artists, Leslie Falls, Nephi Tupaea, Te Kīra Whakamoe and Bernie Winkels, will each receive $10,000, alongside additional support from the gallery, to develop a new body of work to be exhibited at Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga in July 2024.

The four recipients were selected by a panel of contemporary art advocates: Serena Bentley (Senior Curator, Tauranga Art Gallery), Sophie Davis (Hastings City Art Gallery), Ayesha Green (artist), Aaron Lister (Senior Curator, City Gallery Wellington) and Sacha van den Berg (gallerist and founder of Hastings’ Ākina Gallery).

Gwen Malden was a strong supporter of the arts and The Trust continues to support visual arts, craft, music and drama in the Hawke’s Bay region in her legacy.

Bernie Winkels, Space Race, 2022, wood-fired ceramic, 40 x 75cm. Courtesy of the artist
Leslie Falls, Untitled (detail), pleated organza fabric. Courtesy of the artist
Nephi Tupaea, Nga horoi ki te whakapono, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Tim Melville

Te Kīra Whakamoe, Kawe Mate

Matariki Williams reviews Whakamoe's artwork in the exhibition Te Matau-a-Māui Contemporary Art: Gwen Malden Trust Commissions at Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery Heretaunga Hastings, 27 July – 2 November 2024.

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