USE OF ARTSDIARY PHOTOS

© 2016 Sait Akkirman, including all photographs.

The only contemporary art prize in Aotearoa New Zealand with ecology at its core.
Artists are invited to research and respond to the Tamaki Estuary, to underscore
the ecological value of this waterway and encourage action against its pollution.

Judged by Jon Bywater.

Finalists: Cristina Beth, Anthony Clark, Karen Danes, Cushla Donaldson,
Sonja Drake, Dorothy Giam, Neala Glass, Katy Gundesen, Anna Hayes,
Niki Simpkin Hill, Thomas Lawley, Shaun Lee, Wendy Leung,
Josh Lotz-Keegan, Steve Lovett, Zenica Mann, Dreama McFadyen
with Marc and Psalm McFadyen, Emma McLellan, Marie-Louise Myburgh,
Penny Otto, Jasper Owen, Emily Parr, Kristin Peren, Isabella Rasch,
Jodie Salmond, Donna Turtle Sarten with Bernie Harfleet, A.D. Schierning,
Huda Shakarchi, Katie Theunissen, Sam Thomas, Clovis Viscoe,
Rainer Westeon with Claudia Dunes, and Alvin Xiong.

o Donna Sarten and Bernie Harfleet - "Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of an Estuary".

o Sonja Drake - "Riparian Restitution".

o Emma McLellan - "Save".

o Katy Gundesen - "Sub-Mouth".
MERIT AWARD

o Katie Theunissen - "The Littoral Zone".
MERIT AWARD

o Cushla Donaldson - "Stop The Contamination".
SECOND PRIZE

o Emily Parr - "Te Wai Mokoia".
FIRST PRIZE