PPC Imaginarium Awards hosts pop-up exhibit in PE

7 Feb 2017

The PPC Imaginarium Awards, together with the artEC Community Art Centre in Port Elizabeth, is hosting a pop-up exhibition showcasing artworks from the Eastern Cape's emerging creatives. The exhibition is open to the public and will run until 10 February 2017. The show features a range of artworks that have been entered into the annual awards competition.

Image: Basil Brady Photography

A project of the innovation department of PPC, the PPC Imaginarium Awards is an art and design competition in which emerging artists and designers are challenged to demonstrate their knack for innovation by seamlessly incorporating the medium of concrete into each of their respective disciplines.

Promoting and establishing young designers

As part of its ethos, artEC pledges to ensure that its annual exhibition calendar includes a selection of open exhibitions in an effort to continue providing opportunities for unestablished artists to exhibit. This policy aligns with the PPC Imaginarium Awards’ vision of promoting and establishing young artists and designers as leaders in their fields.

Image: Basil Brady Photography

The exhibition in Port Elizabeth is a first for the competition. Says PPC’s Daniel van der Merwe, who heads the PPC Imaginarium Awards: “It is important to us that the competition has national representation, which is why we have judging stations in Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein, Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria. Expanding our exhibition calendar to include Port Elizabeth is exciting for us and we hope to continue to support and grow the creative industries in the Eastern Cape in the future!”

For more information on the PPC Imaginarium Awards, go to www.ppcimaginarium.co.za. For more information on artEC Community Art Centre, go to www.artecpe.co.za.