2025 Pattillo Whanganui Arts Review / 31 May – 31 August

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2025 Pattillo Whanganui Arts Review / 31 May – 31 August

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Current Exhibitions

The 2025 Pattillo Open Award winner is Frances Stachl (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa) for her work Lost and found in translation. Translations of ‘You and I are earth’. (A phrase taken from an English earthenware plate, c1661). sterling silver, oxidised. Font: Matarongo atakau (Bold) developed by Johnson Witehira and Kris Sowersby. NFS

The 2025 Pattillo Whanganui Arts Review, is the first to be presented in our newly redeveloped facilities, specifically in the generous new space that has been created within our new wing, Te Pātaka o Tā Te Atawhai Archie John Taiaroa. After a hiatus during the last years of the redevelopment, it’s a pleasure to be back in Pukenamu Queen’s Park for this 35^th edition of our popular open-call exhibition, the longest running of its kind in Aotearoa New Zealand, which is open to any artist living in the Whanganui region.

The Pattillo Whanganui Arts Review and the Pattillo Project enjoy generous support from our principal project sponsor and partner, Anne Pattillo and her company, Pattillo. Thanks to Pattillo’s sponsorship, the awards include a special additional opportunity for the winner of the Open Award in the form of the Pattillo Project, where the winner also receives a solo exhibition at Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery with mentoring from the gallery team. Pattillo have contributed markedly to the Whanganui Arts Review since 2019 allowing the gallery to upscale the exhibition, the opening, the awards, and generally increase the value of the Arts Review to artists.

We are grateful for the important group of businesses and supporters who have also contributed to this year’s awards. The 2025 Awards are:

Pattillo Open Award – $7000 + The Pattillo Project
Dalgleish Architects Excellence Award – $1500
PKF Doyle and Associates Excellence Award – $1500
Elva Abbot Memorial Youth Award – $250
Article Café Merit Award – $250
Friends of the Sarjeant Gallery Merit Award – $250
Renata’s Art & Framing Merit Award – $250
Whanganui Garden Services Merit Award – $250
The Edith Collier Trust Merit Award – $250
Barnicoat & Healy Merit Award – $250

We are also delighted to introduce to this year’s Whanganui Arts Review, the Whanganui River Markets Trust People’s Choice Award.

Voting closes for the Whanganui River Markets Trust People’s Choice Award on Thursday 31 July at 5pm.

We are delighted to have received 231 entries this year and are grateful to everyone who has participated.

Our judge:

Our thanks go to Abby Cunnane, Manutaki Director of Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, who was our guest judge for the 2025 Pattillo Whanganui Arts Review.

Abby was kind enough to record her comments about each of the winning works, click below to see and hear her thoughts.

Winners of the 2025 Pattillo Whanganui Arts Review as judged by Abby Cunnane, Director of Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery:

Pattillo Open Award $10,000.00 + the opportunity to be the recipient of the Pattillo Project in 2026
Frances Stachl (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa) Lost and found in translation. Translations of ‘You and I are earth’. (A phrase taken from an English earthenware plate, c1661). sterling silver, oxidised. Font: Matarongo atakau (Bold) developed by Johnson Witehira and Kris Sowersby. NFS