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Winners of the 2017 Arts Gold Awards were announced at an Awards Evening held at Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery on Saturday 16th September. The Arts Gold Awards aims to seek and celebrate the finest artisans Central Otago and New Zealand has to offer. This year around 200 entries were received from artists throughout New Zealand. 

The $5000.00 Russell Henderson Charitable Trust and Perpetual Guardian Supreme Award was won by Dunedin artist Blue Black for a ceramic work titled Repotted II. Judges Linda Tyler, (Auckland) and Denise Copland, (Dunedin) said the winning work was "distinctly original and imbued with associations of gratitude, warmth and love".

Gail de Jong, an artist from Bannockburn, was awarded the $3000.00 Nock Art Foundation Outstanding Central Otago Artist Award for her landscape painting Carrick Water Race. De Jong's work, an oil on canvas, depicts an historic water race which provides water for her property, near the Nevis Valley - it is both a political statement and a homage to Central Otago pioneers.

The recipients of two $1000 merit awards were presented to artists Inge Doesburg, of Dunedin for Soliloquy I, oil on gesso, and Marion Mewburn, of Millers Flat for From Earth we Rise, a trio of double - vesselled clay and dirt pots.