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Ashburton Art Gallery

327 West St

Ashburton | 7700

P | 03 307 7890

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Open Daily: 10am - 4pm

Wednesday: 10am - 7pm

Closed Good Friday, Anzac Morning and Christmas day

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ZAWAA25 ENTRIES OPEN

July 31, 2024

The Ashburton Art Gallery and Zonta Club of Ashburton are delighted to announce the call for entries to the annual Zonta Ashburton Women’s Art Awards (ZAWAA) and exhibition for 2025. A major cash prize and solo exhibition will be awarded to the Premier Award winner, and all selected finalists will have their work shown in the awards exhibition at the Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum. The competition is open to all emerging and mid-career visual artists in the Waitaha Canterbury region. The award seeks to raise the status of visual artists who identify as women and recognise their excellence in fine arts practice.

Along with the Premier Award is a Young Generation Award for women artists between the ages of sixteen and twenty. This is a cash prize that acknowledges distinguished potential in art and aims to encourage further creative endeavours: an outcome well suited to Zonta—a global organisation of women working to elevate the status of women worldwide. In addition, there is a People’s Choice Award that runs throughout the course of the exhibition.

Entries will be shortlisted by a panel of judges comprised of three art sector professionals. The awards will be announced by the judges on the opening night on Friday 07 March 2025. Entry forms can be found on the Gallery’s website or from the Gallery and Museum receptions.

ZAWAA25 entry forms are available here. 

Entries close 04 October 2024

Key dates for ZAWAA25:

  • 04 October 2024 | Entries close
  • 15 January 2025 | ZAWAA25 finalists and judges announced
  • 10 February 2025 | Last day for finalists’ works to be delivered to the Gallery
  • 07 March 2025 7pm | Exhibition opening
  • 27 April 2025 | Exhibition closes