
Two Artists Receive Our Highest Honour
Icon Awards Whakamana Hiranga are bestowed to a living circle of 20 of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most significant artists for their extraordinary lifetime achievements and mark on the arts.
Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi General Manager / Kaiwhakahaere Jessica Palalagi, Paora Sharples, His Excellency Dr Richard Davies, 2024 Icon Whakamana Hiranga Sir Dr Tā Pita Sharples, Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Cindy Kiro, Co-Chair Chelsea Winstanley, Trustee Hamish Edgar, Co-Chair Kent Gardner, Kaumātua Joe Harawira.
2006 Laureate Oscar Kightley MNZM speaking at the 2023 Laureate Awards.
2023 Laureate Taiaroa Royal CF
Lady Susan Satyanand, 2011 Icon Whakamana Hiranga Sir Peter Jackson ONZ KNZM, and his excellency the Rt Hon Sir Anand Satyanand Governor General of New Zealand at the 2011 Icon Awards
2020 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Springboard Award Recipient Arjuna Oakes
2010 Harriet Friedlander Resident Seung Yul Oh
1995 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow Fiona Farrell ONZM (left) on her fellowship to Menton visiting New Zealand writer Michelanne Forster (right)
2021 A Moment in Time recipient Nigel Borell
Ann Mallinson and 2023 Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award Recipient Giselle Clarkson
The first ever Laureates in 2000 with AF Trustees and Prime Minister Helen Clark.
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2022 Laureate Hone Kouka MNZM speaking at All In For Arts Kirikiriroa Hamilton, 2023
Guests at a 2024 All In For Arts Event.
There's something about art that brings me closer to my sense of identity and belonging.”
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