Results Of Schools’ Painting Competition

Press, Volume C, Issue 29608, 2 September 1961, Page 13

Results Of Schools’ Painting Competition

Marsden School, Wellington, Jias won the 1961 New Zealand school painting competition. Naenae College, in

■ r* l The subject for the competition was “Integrity” and the judges reported that many of the entries showed a deep understanding of the subject. The three judges were Mr G. S. Troup, president of the Christchurch branch of the United Nations Association, Mr A. Brooke, secretary of the Canterbury Society of Arts, and Miss M. Ruddle, of the arts and crafts division of the Education Department in Christchurch. They were unanimous in awarding the highest praise to the entries of Prudence Williams and Susan Worthington, of Marsden School. Each school submitted five entries for the main competition, but single entries were received for the travelling exhibition to be held in Japan.

The selected paintings will be on display with the best 30 paintings in the Japanese school paintong competition. The Japanese children who have had their paintings accepted for the exhibition will each receive a New Zealand picture, and the New Zealand children will in turn receive Japanese paintings. The full interpretation of integrity, says an official report of the competition, came from P Anderson, aged 14, of New Plymouth Boys’ High School. He painted a youth struggling up towards the light and successfully breaking through restraining Vines labelled greed, jealousy, and hatred.

More religious ideas were expressed in this year's competition than in previous years. A painted church interior showing a clergyman reading the Scriptures to a crowded congregation was produced by Murray Bernard. of Naenae College. In clear simple line and wash, G. Williams, of Mount RoskiH Grammar School, Painted the heads of a judge, a dergyman, and a nurse against a cross in the background. The pointing included the quotation from the forty-first Psakn, “Thcu upholdest Me in My Integrity." Results are as follows: Schools’ Painting Cup Marsden School (Prudence Williams. Susan Worthington, Rozel Pharazyn, Gillian Harris) . 1; Naenae College • Sally Redmond, M. Bernard,

Barbara Bower, Fiona Sabiston) 2. Travelling Exhibition (in geographical order):—Mount tO I » Tfc Taumaranui High School! G. Robinson); Ngutuwera School, Waverley (Janet Hooper); New Plymouth Boys’ High School (P. Anderson); Queen Margaret School, Wellington (Erin McClusky, Jill Bennett, S. Roy); Otahuhu College; Taita College;, St. Orans (Yvcnne Naish); Kilbimie School (P. Foster); Nelson Girls’ College (Rosalie Pahl, Barbara Henderson, Lois Christoffersen); Kaikoura High School (Aroha Poharama); Te Wai Pounamu College, Christchurch (Amokura Tainui, Pat Thompson); Craighead Diocesan School, Timaru (Heather Jamieson, Jill Parsonson); Otago Boys’ High School (H. Rive); Nikoa School, Rarotonga (Bena Kingan).