Approaches to Art Awards

Creative Practice ~ online workshops for artists and creatives.

Join Angela Rowe of Creative Practice in the first of a series of online courses. Creative Practice offers support, upskilling and workshops for artists and creatives in Te Tai Tokerau Northland. Workshops and courses are available at no charge.

Let's talk about Art Awards and comps!

Entering Art Awards, submitting exhibition proposals, responding to gallery call outs or applying for residencies can all play a part in your strategic plan for your work.

Competition is fierce, and is it good for our mahi?

What is out there, and how do we find out more?

Angela shares her experience and tips for approaching art awards and prizes strategically, and looking after yourself with the ups and downs of the art world.

Creative Practice is supported by

Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage Regeneration Fund and Creative Northland

About the Creative Practice workshops

Designed to support emerging artists, working artists and recent arts graduates with developing their independent creative practices. The goal of the workshops is to equip artists to engage confidently and professionally with their communities, via supportive connections between practitioners, a deep dive into their studio practice and issues related to working in the arts.

There is no cost to participants, only a commitment to attend and give time to your work while we work together.

Here's some thoughts from an artist I worked with recently:

“I think Angela's mentoring workshop takes people, including me, by surprise. That's because it's not designed to be only a passing-on of information and resources, which are, by the way, plentiful and useful, but as a co-built space for artists to practice first-hand collaboration and constructive critique with their peers. The offering and asking of critique from other artists has been a healthy challenge for me and being in this "out of comfort zone" gave me insight on internal blockages that are in the way of my success as an artist. One leaves the workshops confident that there's plenty of possibilities out there, easily at hand, and really it's just a matter to try them one after the other until something works. Angela is outstandingly available and supportive, always replying to messages and emails in record time and always with useful and practical answers to all kinds of questions.” 

~ Cecilia De Donatis

About Angela

Angela has been working in the arts for over 20 years. Her experience includes maintaining a creative practice, studio research, project writing, project management and delivery, exhibition curation, writing and planning. Angela brings a collaborative approach to her work and understands the reality of working in the arts in Aotearoa.

Angela’s creative practice includes curation and storytelling across performance, installation, photography, drawing, and textile works. Angela is particularly interested in the future of arts in Aotearoa and how to create a more equitable and sustainable arts industry. Angela studied through Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, completing her MFA in 2020.

Angela’s work has been exhibited in Auckland, Whangārei, Dunedin, Nelson, Whakatāne, Morrinsville, Waiheke, Oamaru and Wellington. Recently, her work has made finals or won art awards across Aotearoa, including The Wallace Awards 2020, Changing Threads 2021 and 2022, The Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Awards 2022, and the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award for Painting and Drawing in 2019 and 2023.

Angela has had successful funding applications to Creative New Zealand, Manatu Taonga, Creative Communities and Lotteries Community grants scheme. She is on the committee of the Shutter Room Gallery Collective, serving as Gallery Curator and has delivered exhibition or performance projects in Auckland, Whangārei and Dunedin.

Please make sure you sign up to my Creative Practice Substack.

You can find Creative Practice on Instagram.

Ngā mihi,
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