Montana World of WearableArt™ Awards Show Winners 2004
Labour of Love Wins Young Nelson Designer Ultimate Prize
An 18 year old Golden Bay designer who spent 2 years dreaming up her garment and a thousand hours creating it, has taken out the Supreme Award at the Montana World of WearableArt™ Awards in Nelson tonight.
Claire Prebble’s entry “Eos”, a stunning creation of woven sterling silver, copper wire, beads and silk, was inspired by a Greek Goddess.
Claire says Eos is an abbreviation for Evolution of the Spirit, and has been evolving for two years. “Eos is the all seeing Goddess of the Dawn. The black skirt represents to me the night trailing behind her. I found the theme very fitting, especially when I was working all night until dawn.”
Claire first entered the Montana WOW® Awards as an eight-year-old, becoming a finalist in the Childrens section with “The Junk Fish”. Her 2001 entry, “Perelandra” was highly commended in the Open section and the Creative Excellence section of the Awards.
Eos also won this years Nelson City Council Reflective Surfaces section. As the supreme Montana WOW® Awards winner, Claire receives $10,000, a $10,000 international travel prize from American Express, and a Hoglund Art Glass Trophy valued at $2000.
The Awards were a fabulous feast of entertainment, attended by a capacity crowd of 2,500 – including the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, and a host of diplomats and ambassadors.
The show featured a lavish array of 180 garments, woven between a feast of entertainment, from a flame eating magician, a gaggle of French Nuns, a 5 metre high Red Lady to live opera singers performing from silver clouds above the auditorium.
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Montana Supreme WOW Award - Winner
Eos, Claire Prebble, Golden Bay
Nelson Birthplace of WOW Highly Commended Award - Winner
Masque de Plastique, Lynn Johnston & Felicity Hardy, Australia
MainPower Creative Excellence Award - Winner
Fly of Memory, Vasupar Asavasupreecha, Thailand
MainPower Creative Excellence Award - Highly Commended
Emerging Spirit, Jan Kerr, Waikanae
Tertiary Student Design Award sponsored by Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology - Winner
Eternal Phoenix, Carol Hargadon, Richmond
Tertiary Student Design Award sponsored by Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology - Highly Commended
Hiding the Person Inside, Bobby-Lee Wadsworth, Nelson
Turners & Growers First Time Entrant Award - Winner
Ms February 2004, Toy Murchie, Golden Bay
Wales & MacKinlay Silk Award - Winner
Stand Tall Poppy, Liz Greville & Mary Atkinson, Masterton
Wales & MacKinlay Silk Award - Highly Commended
A Weaver's Tale, Rodney Leong, Auckland
Bowater Toyota Children's Section - Winner
Mascot of the Child's Dream, Kritsada Tongpan, Thailand
Bowater Toyota Children's Section - Highly Commended
All Buttoned Up, Andrea Clinton, Wellington
Bowater Toyota Children's Section - Commended
New Kid on the Block, Doreen Helms, Richmond
Air New Zealand South Pacific Section - Winner
The Seiren, Rosie Horsley, Coromandel
Air New Zealand South Pacific - Highly Commended
Belle of the Ball, Belinda Sherriff, Whitianga
Air New Zealand South Pacific - Commended
I am Kiwi, Stephanie Crampton, Nelson
American Express Open Section - Winner
Masque de Plastique, Lynn Johnston & Felicity Hardy, Australia
American Express Open Section - Highly Commended
Emerging Spirit, Jan Kerr, Waikanae Beach
American Express Open Section - Commended
Homage to Salvador Dali from Nelson - My Home, Margaret Johnston, Nelson
Tourism New Zealand Avant Garde Section - Winner
Scorpio, Lisa Lach-Neilson, Denmark
Tourism New Zealand Avant Garde Section - Highly Commended
Beauty and the Beast, Annah Stretton, Morrinsville
Tourism New Zealand Avant Garde Section - Commended
A Weaver's Tale, Rodney Leong, Auckland
Scenic Circle Hotels Bizarre Bra Section - Winner
Hot Speaker, Seepphum Srisopa, Thailand
Scenic Circle Hotels Bizarre Bra Section - Highly Commended
Buiten Gebruik/Out of Order, Nicole & Yo Heydenrijk, Wellington
Scenic Circle Hotels Bizarre Bra Section - Commended
Booby Trap, Hilary & Judy Unwin, Nelson
Creative New Zealand Artisitc Excellence Section - Winner
Miro Personage, Susan Holmes, Auckland
Creative New Zealand Artistic Excellence Section - Highly Commended
Flora, Jeff Thomson, Auckland
Nelson City Council Reflective Surfaces Section - Winner
Eos, Claire Prebble, Golden Bay
Nelson City Council Reflective Surfaces Section - Highly Commended
Fly of Memory, Vasupar Asavasupreecha, Thailand
Nelson City Council Reflective Surfaces Section - Commended
Eternal Phoenix, Carol Hargadon, Richmond
Port Nelson Illumination Illusion Section - Winner
Seen but Note Heard, Cassandra & Paul Bowe, Nelson
Port Nelson Illumination Illusion Section - Highly Commended
On Line, Mary Turner, Nelson
Port Nelson Illumination Illusion Section - Commended
Twin Tickles - Southern Cross and Matariki, Tarja Pabruwe
