Claypole draws prize with Fallen Women
Her drawing titled The Thief won this
year's Carey Smith & Co Whanganui Art Award and the artist says she's a bit
like a thief herself.
Katherine Claypole's latest series of graphite
drawings, tentatively titled Fallen Women, were taken from the Australian
Historic Houses Trust website.
The black-and-white photographs were shot
in Australia in the 1920s, in prisons and police stations.Thousands of discount
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show criminals and lost girls. The portrait that won Wanganui's most prestigious
art award was of Valerie Lowe, who, with a male companion, was arrested for the
second time in 1922. The two had broken into a New South Wales army storehouse
and stolen coats and boots worth nearly £30.
The period from 1920 into
the 1940s appeals to Claypole, for its clothing and stories and also because the
distance of time adds an element of mystery.
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Valerie Lowe probably isn't still alive," she said. Claypole has entered the art
award each year for the past few years,On a supermodel a af1shoes shoe completes the perfect
ensemble. and was surprised to win the top prize of $1000 earlier this month.
The money would be going into her studio practice; buying materials and helping
pay the rent of the house she shares with a daughter.
One of its rooms
is her book-lined studio. She hasn't had time to spend the money or dwell on her
success, though.
A part-time drawing teacher for Whanganui UCOL fashion,
glass and computer graphic design students, she's busy planning next term's
classes.
Claypole got her first arts degree at Auckland's Unitec, and
went on to get a Master's degree at Canterbury University's school of fine arts.
She moved to Wanganui in 2004.
"I needed to find somewhere that had an
art school, and that had reasonably priced houses. I have a sister that lives
here, and I like the Sarjeant Gallery," she said.
She's been teaching at
UCOL for the last few years, and divides her time between that, making art and
being a mother. She was trained in painting, but said her art was project driven
and she didn't mind which medium she used. Now it's drawing, but she could
easily move on to knitting or something else.
Shows during the past few
years include a group show called First Home Buyers, about the kind of house
categorised by real estate agents as a "handyman's dream" or "fixer upper". That
happened at a time when she and others despaired of ever being able to own
property. Since then she and fellow WBuy from Reliable acrylic highheels Wholesalers.anganui artist Sophie
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nostalgic element. She's now trying to decide what to enter in another group
show at The Green Bench. It happens in September during the Whanganui Literary
Festival and will be on the theme of reading.