Grae Burton Scholarship

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About Grae Burton

Grae Burton has had a career in the arts for over 30 years, receiving his first award at the age of 16 at the Nelson Contemporary Art Awards for his oil work “Rock of the Bay”, presented at the Suter Gallery.  He later went on to have his first residency at the Suter Gallery which incorporated Mask performance, sketching and interactive multimedia presentations.  His career in visual arts parallelled his career in performing and screen arts, working as an experimental film and theatre actor, producer, director, designer and writer.  In the 2010’s his visual art shifted into highly stylised photography and then experimental art film. He has been a finalist and salon de refusee exhibitor in the Wallace Art Awards ad at one time was one of the most collected artists in that collection. He has one several awards for stage, screen, writing and visual art, most recently the Gordon Harris award for the Mairangi Arts Members show in 2025 and the ACTT award for best male performer in a lead role for his portayal of Antony in Antony and Cleopatra.  Since 2017 he has been the Kaiwhakahaere Kaupapa Toi at Te Whare Roto of Toi – Lake House Arts.  This has enabled him to collect over 100 artworks from exhibitors to add to his existing private collection.  He has kindly donated 80+ of those works back to Lake Hosue to form the basis of The Grae Burton Scholarship Programme.

Additional Information

Introduction


Outcomes


The Opportunity


Availability


The Recipient (Nominnee)

Introduction

The sale of artwork from this collection will enable art classes term by term to be availble free to kids and families experiencing financial and/or generational dissadvantage.  

If you would like to contribute a cash or art donation toward the Grae Burton Scholarship directly, please contact info@lakehousearts.org.nz 

Outcomes

It is hoped that by providing the scholarship the following outcomes are achieved: 

• A young person is given the opportunity and the resources to learn about and make art at Lake House Arts Centre 
• That the opportunity is provided to a young person who would not otherwise have the means or resources to pursue arts experiences 
• That the opportunity is provided to a young person for the entirety of their schooling

The Opportunity

• A scholarship which offers free access to any one art class at Lake House Arts (Terms & Conditions apply)
• An opportunity to exhibit work at Lake House Arts 
• Membership at Lake House Arts

Availability

The public will be notified through online platforms when enough funds have been raised toward these scholarships.

The Recipient (Nominee)

The recipient would be determined by application and recommendation 

It is required that it be established that: 

• The recipient is a student or lives in Auckland 
• The recipient has shown an aptitude for making art and is committed to learning new skills 
• The recipient and recipient’s family are experiencing hardship in some way which limits the recipient’s ability to access art training.

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