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My work Mapping another life  has been selected as a finalist work for exhibition at The Ashburton Art Gallery.

I am very excited to be selected again this year and to show my work alongside these wonderful female practioners. Congratulations to all the finalists!

The exhibition will run from the 1 March - 14 April.

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My work Mapping another life - A state of being in disguise of a cloud/Liminalities has been selected for the Parkin Drawing Prize!

86 works were chosen from 500 entries for the exhibition at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in Wellington. The winning work will be announced at the opening of the Parkin Prize Exhibition on the 1. August.

Works in the award exhibition are for sale. Please email me for any enquiries (please check out the Parkin website).

The Parkin Drawing Prize exhibition in on until at 11. September. Go and check it out!

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My work Mapping another life - a state of being in disguise of a cloud/perilously close to...  has been selected as a finalist work for exhibition at The Ashburton Art Gallery.

I am very excited to show my work alongside these wonderful female practioners. Congratulations to all the finalists!

The exhibition will run from the 11 March - 24 April.

Instagram: @johann.ina #inajohann

My work A Rambunctious Garden - liminalities is a selected finalist in the Aspiring Art Prize 2023.

Fabulous NEWS: My work Mapping another life in disguise of a cloud/glitches 2022 has rceived a MERIT AWARD this year! 

76 works were chosen from 589 entries for the exhibition at the Fine Arts Academy in Wellington. The winning work will be announced at the opening of the Parkin Prize Exhibition on the 1. August. 

Works in the award exhibition are for sale. Please email me or the Academy for any enquiries (please check out the Parkin website link below).

The Parkin Drawing Prize exhibition opens on the 2. August and runs until at 11. September at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Queens Wharf, Wellington.

My label FABULA by IJ and Four Corners Boutique Assessories have launched a venture presenting a limited edition of beautiful silk scarves in three stunning colours.

Designed in New Zealand, inspired by my artwork series A RAMBUNCTIOUS GARDEN, the light weight printed 100% silk scarves, with hand rolled hem detail and box packaging will soon be available in selected boutique and gift stores throughout New Zealand.

A limited number is available on pre-order in the link provided below. Have a look at the colours and secure your favourite scarf now. The edition is selling fast...

My new solo exhibition POROSITIES will be shown at The Ashburton Art Gallery comprising drawing, painting, photography and lightsculpture.

Porosities investigates the empty spaces between the spaces that we inhabit, particularly with regard to post-earthquake Christchurch. It considers the green spaces that have risen from residential areas, as well as other changes the city has experienced.

EVENT | FRIDAY 19 MARCH | 7PM | RSVP required

ARTIST TALK | SUNDAY 21 MARCH | 2PM

EXHIBITION | 20 FEBRUARY – 26 MARCH 2021

The diptych Parallel Lines - diffusions 2020 has been selected as a finalist work for exhibition at The Ashburton Art Gallery.

The exhibition will run from the 6 March - 6 April.

My work Mapping another life - A state of being in disguise os a cloud received a Merit Awards this year!

The works in the award exhibition are for sale. Please email me or the Academy for any enquiries (please check out the Parkin website link below).

My new works 25May2020 and Mapping another life - A state of being in disguise of a cloud 2020 will be exhibited at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington.

The competition attracted 482 entries, of which 76 have been selected for the short-list.
The national drawing competition, attracting a major prize of $25,000, was launched by philanthropist and arts patron, Chris Parkin eight years ago. Ten highly commended prizes worth $500.00 each will also be awarded.

An advisory panel, consisting of leading contemporary Maori artist, writer and curator Professor Robert Jahnke ONZM, Dr Sarah Farrar, Head of Curatorial and Exhibitions at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, and arts commentator/writer Dr Andrew Paul Wood, spent hours assessing hundreds of entries before coming up with the short-list.

The works will be showcased at the Parkin Drawing Prize exhibition at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts (4 - 30 August) and the winning submission will be selected and announced by Charlotte Davy, Head of Art at Te Papa Tongarewa at the gala announcement of the Parkin Drawing Prize exhibition on Monday 3 August 2020.

The diptych Parallel lines - incompatible propositions has been selected as a finalist work for exhibition at The Ashburton Art Gallery.

The exhibition will run from the 7 March - 20 April.

My work Parallel lines - this sky belongs to me - now 2019 has been selected as a finalists work in the Wallace Art Awards 2019.

The judges will select the Award Winners, and a proportion of the works will be shown as part of the Award Winners & Travelling Finalists exhibition, with the balance shown in the Salon des Refuses.

Opening of the exhibition and the announcements of all Awards recipients will be on the 2 September at the Pah Homestead.

Parallel Lines -Mapping another life #5 has been selected as a finalist work for exhibition at The Ashburton Art Gallery.

The exhibition will run from the 2 March - 7 April.

Edwards + Johann are selected finalists in the 2018 Parkin Drawing Prize. They received a Merit Award from Judge Kelcy Taratoa for their work Concretions - Drawing strength #2. Winning works were announced on the 16th of July at The Academy of Fine Arts in Wellington.

We opened our touring exhibition From the Edge of Spaces at Whakatane Library and Exhibition centre. The new director Eric Holowacz invited us to become the Pilot Volcanic Artits in Residence in Whakatane visiting Whakaari White Island. This has been an amazing, utterly magical and game changing experience for us. see Edwards+Johann project page

Ina Johann is a selected finalist for the 2017 Parkin Drawing Prize. The two unique works from the series Parallel Lines will be exhibited at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington. An advisory panel, consisting of Dr. Warren Feeney, John Gow, Simon Rees and Kelcy Taratoa decided on the short-list for exhibition out of over 500 entries. The winning submission will be selected and announced by this year's judge Seraphine Pick at the opening of the Parkin Prize Exhibition on the 1. August.

The Parkin Drawing Prize exhibition runs until 27 August 2017 at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Queens Wharf, Wellington.

The exhibition EVENTS GROWING from the EDGE of SPACES presents recent works at The TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre.

The series On the Seam of Things - Constellations and Constellations - drawing strength record the gradual process of drawing, part of the work's becoming; a probing and mapping of new territory. Drawing acts like an obsessive caress on the photographic surface, finding form and meaning as motif for the tensions and dichotomies inherent in life. This territory reflects a basic human condition...to connect, work, play and test the space we inhabit to deal with crises and to grow. The seam is a point of connection but also a space of friction, tension and inevitable fragility. The series An Embezzlement of Sort is a dark, yet playful space of human propositions to 'unknown' events.

The work Parallel Lines - A state of being in disguise of a cloud is selected finalist for the National Contemporary Art Award. The judge Elisabeth Caldwell selected 51 artworks for exhibition. Announcement of winner and exhibition opening will be on the 28th of July at Waikato Museum, Hamilton.

EDWARDS + JOHANN news:

Judge Felicity Milburn awarded the work On the seam of things - Constellations #8 one of four Highly Commended Awards in the 2017 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award. Selected from 430 entries and 80 finalists the work will be on display at the Te Koputu a te Whanga a Toi, Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre.

Judges comment:

"An elegant essay in the art of juxtaposition, this work combines photography and drawing to compelling effect. Vast natural forces, threatening to collide, loom beside a figure-like form that has been assembled from an inexplicable convergence of materials. Rods of colour connect the two compositional fields, imbuing the work with a sense of mysterious and unstable energy."

See MMCA website for all Award Results

The work Parallel Lines - Mapping another life #2 has beeen selected finalist by judge Felicity Milburn in the 2017 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award.

Selected from 430 entries and 80 finalists the work will be on display at the Te Koputu a te Whanga a Toi, Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre.

See MMCA website for all Award Results

Finalist for the 2016 Parkin Drawing Prize.

An advisory panel, consisting of Dick Frizzell, Arts commentator, historian and writer Warren Feeney, New Zealand artist Judy Darragh and painter Kelcy Taratoa spent hours assessing hundreds of entries before deciding on the short-list.for exhibition out of the 429 entries.

The work Parallel Lines - Mapping another life also received one of the ten Merit Awards.

The Parkin Drawing Prize exhibition runs until 28 August 2016 at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Queens Wharf, Wellington.

Edwards+Johann news:

Judge Zara Stanhope selected the work On the seam of things - Constellations #5 to be the supreme winner of the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award 2016. Selected from 41 finalists the work will be on display during the Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival.

"Everyone artist deserves an award. However, the winner of the Waikato Painting and Print Award are Edwards + Johann for their intriguing figure set in a diptych or two part image that uses photography and drawing. The strange personae seems to be an assemblage of everyday objects, including rubber gloves and a vacuum cleaner giving us a hint of gender in an otherwise ambiguous veiled torso. This sense of intrigue is accentuated by the abstract motifs and strange floating geological forms with their delicately inscribed lines. Overall, On the Seam of Things - Constellation #5 evokes the artist curiosity in the tension of bringing matter together, the real and abstract, artificial and natural, mind and body."

Zara Stanhope, judge, New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award 2016

Finalists Wallace Art Awards 2015

Finalists Parkin Drawing Award 2015

Finalists National Contemporary Art Award 2015

Residency and exhibition at Altes Spital Solothurn/Switzerland

Ina johann is selected finalist for the 2015 Parkin Drawing Prize. An advisory panel, consisting of Senior Lecturer in Painting at the University of Canterbury Roger Boyce, Associate Professor, Arts commentator, historian and writer Dr. Warren Feeney, poet, painter, curator and editor,Gregory O'Brien and New Zealand artist Judy Darragh selected the finalists for exhibition out of nearly 500 entries.

The winning submission will be selected and announced by artist Dick Frizzell at a gala event at the Academy Galleries/ Wellington on Monday 7th of September.

Judge Simon Rees says the entries for this year's award were a pleasing admixture of attention-to-craft, beauty, conceptual clat, devil-may-care, deep-thinking, elegance, humour, and dedication to the outright ugly (in a good way). All the stuff contemporary art is made of.

The work of the merit award laureates and that of the winner embody the aforementioned list of qualities - and add to it degrees of handicraft, faux naivet, DIY and attention to tactility and materiality. All power, say I, to the handmade in 2014.

Tell Someone if Something Happens, Deanna Dowling, Winner.

The winner received $15,000 from the sponsors, Ebbet Audi and Tompkins Wake Lawyers.

The winning entry was selected by Rees from 53 finalists artworks. This year there are five merit awards. They are:
Elsa Lye, Hamilton - The Cardinals
Madeleine Child, Dunedin - Pretty Boys
Natalie Guy, Auckland - Form for Interior
Ina Johann, Christchurch - Lost Lines #2
Frances Hansen, Auckland - A Drawing Activity

Ina Johann's work Lost Lines #2 got selected for the National Contemporary Art Award. The judge Simon Rees selected 53 artworks for exhibition out of 271 entries. Announcement of winner and exhibition opening will be on the 8th of August.

Rebels Knights and Other Tomorrows - Exhibition at Christchurch Art Gallery

Finalists Wallace Art Awards 2014

Finalists National Contemporary Art Award 2014

Finalists Parkin Drawing Award 2014

Residency and exhibition at School of Fine Arts Otago Polytechnic

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“A deeply layered work, Looking at – The View draws on Margaret Stoddart’s skill in faithfully capturing the essence of the New Zealand landscape and its native flora. Edwards and Johans' work encompasses the possibilities, monumentality and isolation that met the early female settlers and painters. Beautifully composed, austere in tone and densely narrative I found this work to be both beautiful and engaging”. Rachel Slade, Judge Margaret Stoddart Award 2009