The work of National Drawing Competition winners Courtney Douglas, Troyden Bonds, Shimuel Jones and Roann Pierre is currently on display at the National Gallery, Castellani House, Vlissengen Road along with those of other entrants and the exhibition has been extended to January 25.
Winners of the competition which was sponsored by Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited were announced on December 17, when the exhibition opened, according to a press release from the National Gallery.
Douglas, the First Prize winner took the Gold Medal and an honorarium of $150,000 for his work in graphite pencil, ‘Prolific’, an interpretive tribute to Shivnarine Chanderpaul, preceding the national cricketing hero’s recent achievement of another milestone in his international career. The release noted that Douglas was a Burrowes School of Art (BSA) graduate and graphic designer.
Silver medal winner Bonds received $100,000 for his work in pen and ink, ‘Uprising Memory and Creation’, whose composite image paid tribute to the late visionary painter-sculptor, Philip Moore. Bonds won the Special Young Person’s Prize (16-18 years category) in 2004, the release said.
Jones snagged the third prize, a Bronze Medal and cheque for $50,000, for ‘Six Races – One Root’, executed in coloured ink. Jones won the Young Person’s Prize in 2008 and more recently was shortlisted in the final five in the Painting category of the National Visual Arts Competition of 2012, the release noted. Jones also received an Honourable Mention for his work ‘Deeper than the Colour of Your Skin’.
Pierre, 16, the lone entrant in the Young Person’s Category, won a Bronze Medal and an honorarium of $35,000 for her work in charcoal: ‘Silent Tears’. Pierre is a Christ Church Secondary School student.
The release noted too that an additional Honourable Mention was awarded to well-known ceramist and senior executive member of the Guyana Women Artists’ Association, Anna Correia, for her pen and ink drawing, ‘Hidden Faces II’.
Competition judges were leading sculptor, painter, draughtswoman and BSA tutor, Josefa Tamayo; Anil Roberts, artist and currently a project administrator at the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs; and Lourdes Olguín, wife of the Ambassador of Mexico H.E. Francisco Olguín, herself a painter on porcelain.
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