The winner of this year's Parkin Drawing Prize has been announced.
The prize is New Zealand’s premier award for drawing and comes with a $25,000 reward.
This year's winner is Wellington photo media artist Poppy Lekner, who won yesterday for her drawing Forward Slash.
Her drawing features hundreds of forward slashes from a typewriter on an A4 piece of paper.
Ms Lekner was asked about her artwork on Seven Sharp.
"I made it with a typewriter. I started writing with a typewriter then I thought about it a bit more and thought I really like the marks the typewriter makes," she said.
"I’m there and the typewriter is there and it’s kind of a cool combining of the typewriter and ink and paper and thought this could be a drawing."
Playing "devil's advocate", Seven Sharp host Hilary Barry asked if "some might ask if this is a drawing?"
"It is a drawing for me but I can understand how it might be a leap of faith for some people who would not see the pencil and a clear representation of an object they recognise," Ms Lekner said.
"But once you investigating what drawing is and look at contemporary art you’ll see it’s part of a bigger exploration into what art can be."
Her drawing won out over 482 entrants, which can be viewed here.
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