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Warkworth-based artist Paula Friis is a finalist in this year’s Wallace Art Awards.
The annual awards have been running for 25 years and are one the largest and most prestigious art awards in the country. They have over $200,000 worth of prizes on offer and many past winners have gone on to have international recognition
Paula is completing a Masters in art at Whitecliffe College, and entered the awards after advice from a friend.
“In order to have a chance of being recognised as a professional artist, my friend said you have to enter these awards every year,” Paula says. “To be shortlisted on my first attempt is huge.”
Paula says she works intuitively, but the piece she has entered is based on a type of totem. She plans to create many different types until she has what she describes as a complete totem tribe.
The winners will be announced on September 5. First prize is a six-month art residency in New York City.
