Adam Portraiture Award and Exhibition 2010
The New Zealand Portrait Gallery will once again be running the Adam Portraiture Award and Exhibition, a biennial event sponsored by the Adam Foundation, Wellington City Council and Wellington Waterfront Ltd. The exhibition will open on Wednesday 24 February 2010 and will run throughout the duration of the International Festival of Arts in Wellington.

The competition is aimed at encouraging New Zealand emerging and established artists to develop the theme of portraiture within their work. The 2010 competition is for portraits in the painted medium only. We regret that we are unable to include categories for sculpture, photography and multi-media art, although we are working towards these for another Award.

The prize for the winner of the 2010 Adam Portraiture Award is $15,000 in cash. The winning entry will be retained as part of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery permanent collection. In addition there will be a $2,000 Peoples’ Prize, which will be awarded at the end of the exhibition, and is voted for by members of the public.

The 2010 competition is to be run in the following way: your entry is initially to be submitted in the form of a photograph of your painting. This can be accompanied by slides or a CD with digital images, Those artists whose paintings are selected for hanging and the final judging will then be invited to submit the original work, which will then be exhibited in the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Adam Exhibition and after this may tour.

Please note that each artist is limited to one entry. This entry must be accompanied by an official Entry Form and the $45 entry fee.

See the website for an entry form and conditions for entry: http://portraitgallery.nzl.org.