Terry Hawkins’ Haast Eagle won the big award at the inaugural Kimbolton Sculpture Festival.
Entries are open for the New Zealand Rural Sculpture Awards, which celebrate the immense creativity found in rural communities.
The Kimbolton Sculpture Festival will be held on April 2 at Kimbolton, near Feilding.
Organisers say that after three successful festivals, the 2022 event will be bigger than ever.
Manawatū local Pam Corpe has entered every year and has won her fair share of mantlepiece hardware.
Her brother-in-law Terry Hawkins is the one to beat and Pam already has big plans.
“I know what I am going to make for next year’s festival, and I am starting to have a play with how I am going to actually do it,” Corpe said.
Corpe makes things out of the bits and bobs she finds in her shed or on the farm.
She has a magpie’s eye and her hilltop house is scattered with quirky sculptures.
“I see something and think, ‘well I could make something out of that one day’. I use what I find, that’s my definition of my art,” she said.
Corpe won the big prize at the last festival with her Oroua Bird sculpture.
With seven awards for adults and seven youth awards and with $18,000 prize money up for grabs, there are plenty of options for first time sculptors and experienced artists alike.
You could win the top prize of $5000, you could walk away with the People’s Choice Award or you could just have a heap of fun along the way.
More information about the festival and how to enter can be found here.
