Scholarship a boost for young artist
19 October 2011
Fourth-year undergraduate fine arts student Hamish Coleman will be buying new art supplies after the recent award of a $5000 scholarship.
UC fine arts student Hamish Coleman.
Fourth-year undergraduate fine arts student Hamish Coleman will be buying new art supplies after the recent award of a $5000 scholarship.
Hamish, who hails from Ashburton, has been awarded the Harry van der Lecq Scholarship for painting at a function held in the School of Fine Arts recently.
He said the scholarship came as a surprise and he intended to use the award money to buy material to continue practising his art.
“It’s the first scholarship I’ve ever received and it means a lot as its recognition of what I’m doing — that someone else thinks my work is good, which is nice,” he said.
“Previous recipients, like André Hemer, have gone on to do quite well for themselves so that’s quite motivating for me too.”
Hamish’s painting style is figurative and features images of people taken from film stills. His work recently featured in an exhibition, Dreaming of Electric Sheep, held in the School of Fine Arts gallery earlier this month, and some of his early 2011 work featured in a solo exhibition, Going Underground, in The Casting Room gallery in August.
Hamish said he intended to do postgraduate studies at UC next year.
For more information please contact:
comms@canterbury.ac.nz
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