Painter and Whitecliffe lecturer Imogen Taylor is the 2018 Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award Winner.
Her acrylic on hessian painting Refusal to Yield was chosen from 515 entries including painting, sculpture, audio-visual, print, photography, drawing and interdisciplinary work.
Judges Linda Tyler, Mark Braunias and Joyce Campbell described the work as combining references to the Bauhaus, Cubist and Modernist movements with assured handling of colour and composition: ‘It made for a bold, memorable and deeply informed painting.’ The Award Winners and Travelling Finalists exhibition is at Pah Homestead until November and will then tour to Porirua, Nelson, Christchurch and Morrinsville.