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Recipient of the Arts Foundation's Award for Patronage announced

Recipient of the Arts Foundation's Award for Patronage announced


The Chartwell Trust is the recipient of the Arts Foundation's 2011 Award for Patronage. The Arts Foundation provides $20,000 to the recipient to distribute to arts projects of their choice. As with previous awardees, the Chartwell Trust is donating $20,000 so that four $10,000 awards can be made to artists and/or arts organisations at the award ceremony on 11 October.

To date the award has gone to: Gus and Irene Fisher (2010), Adrienne, Lady Stewart (2009), Gillian and Roderick Deane (2008), Dame Jenny Gibbs (2007) and Denis and Verna Adams (2005).
Image: Clinton Watkins, Feedback (2011), video stills from a free art download project presented by Chartwell and Starkwhite at the 2011 Auckland Art Fair