Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality’s (EMM) spokesperson, Mr Samuel Modiba, said that there will be six categories in this year’s competition.
The winner of the first prize will get R40 000, the Ekurhuleni Prize will be R30 000 while the winners of the Multi and Ne Media Merit Award, Painting Merit Awards, Art on Paper Merit Award and Sculpture Merit Award, will get R7 500 each.
He said that entries can be submitted from August 20 to 22 at Coen Scholtz Recreation Centre, Mooifontein Road in Kempton Park, between 9am and 7pm.
Mr Modiba added that there will be three satellite entry points at different times.
“Satellite entry points will be available at the Boksburg Library on August 21, from 9am to 4pm, the Springs Art Gallery on August 20 to 21 from 9am to 4pm and at the Katlehong Art Centre on August 20 from 9am to 4pm,” Mr Modiba said.
Mr Modiba said it will be the 26th time this competition is being held in Ekurhuleni.
“The annual Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards is a contemporary fine arts competition which, in its 26th year, still seeks to inspire the passion that the late acclaimed resistance artist, Thami Mynele, had for art. Mnyele once said: ‘Our art must be a process, a living, growing thing that people can relate, identify with, be part of, understand, not a mysterious world, a universe apart from them.’ Hence the competition caters for artists of all ages, producing various media of art works,” Mr Modiba said.
