Nando’s ‘Peri-fy Your Art’ winners

THE Nando’s  annual  ‘Peri-fy Your Art’ Competition 2010 came to a close with an astounding 245 entries from 14 colleges and  universities.

With the theme “Kicking-off with art & soul”, “Nando’s goes back to its homeground”, Nando’s objective was to draw attention to its homeland South Africa. Valuing the heritage of the brand was the key focus of the competition.

Mac Chung Lynn the CEO of Nando’s at the prize presentation ceremony cum launch of the art exhibition said, “Heritage is all about the roots or the story behind the beginning of a tradition, a practice, a culture, religion and the list goes on. It is a very important aspect of life as it helps define the meaning of a lot of things,  including life itself.

“At Nando’s we take pride in our history of how our recipes and existence came about. Hence with this year’s theme we are encouraging the creative minds of our future generation to interpret Heritage into artwork.”

The students were not restricted to their own environments and backgrounds. Anything that could define the roots and history of anything was acceptable.

The 10 winning pieces and another best 30 pieces selected by the judges will be put up for a week-long exhibition and will be open for auction at 1 Utama Shopping Centre, Level LG for 1 week from 10 May – 16 May 2010.

All of the artworks were judged by a panel of appointed judges namely Y. Bhg Puan Sri Datin Amar Elizabeth Moggie who is a member on the Board of Trustees for Badan Warisan, Tan Sri Professor Emeritus Dr Khoo Kay Kim who is a historian and currently a Professor Emeritus at University of Malaya’s history department, Bayu Utomo Radjikin who is a well-known artist from the Matahati Group, Syed Nabil Syed Nahar the Director of NN Gallery together with Mac Chung Lynn the CEO of Nando’s.

All decisions were made based on the interpretation of theme, creativity, content, composition and the title of the art piece.

The auction will be a silent auction whereby interested parties can fill up and drop the bidding form at the box provided at exhibition ground. 50 per cent  of the proceeds from the sale of the art pieces will go back to the student whose art piece gets sold.

As for the balance 50 per cent of the proceeds, it will be shared amongst the top three winning colleges of the art competition and will be divided by percentage whereby 50 per cent goes to the Grand Prize winner, 30 per cent to the Second place winner and 20 per cent to the Third place winner.

The winners of this year’s competition are:

• Grand Prize – RM3,000 prize money & RM200 Nando’s gift vouchers
  

  1st runner up art piece - Mohd Najib b. Ahmad, UITM Shah Alam

Winner – Mohd Hirzaq Abd Haris from UiTM Shah Alam

• 1^st Prize – RM2,000 prize money & RM200 Nando’s gift vouchers

Winner – Mohd Najib Bin Ahmad from UiTM Shah Alam

• 2^nd Prize – RM1,000 prize money & RM200 Nando’s gift vouchers

Winner – Wong Sam Lin from Dasein Academy of Art

• Consolation x 7 winners – RM200 prize money & RM200 Nando’s gift vouchers

Winner – Soon Mei Ling from Dasein Academy of Art

Winner – Md Rafi B Hamid from UiTM Shah Alam

Winner – John Harrison Aksang from UiTM

Winner – Siti Nor Hidayaa bte Mohamad Moktar from UiTM

Winner – Liew Hui Chan from Equator Academy of Art

Winner – Julia binti Mohd Zin Lai from UiTM Shah Alam

Winner – Nurul Aini Ramli from UiTM Shah Alam

It was indeed a surprise to everyone as this year’s winner of the Grand Prize was in fact the winner of last year’s Nando’s Peri-fy Your Art – Clucking with Mother Nature’s 2D category. Besides that, there were two other winners this year who also took part last year and won. It shows that the annual Nando’s Peri-fy Your Art has created a following amongst the art students,” said Mac at the end of the prize presentation.

Director of NN Gallery Syed Nabil Syed Nahar said, “It is indeed an honour to be partnering Nando’s again in this art competition. The students have again proved themselves with fantastic artworks. This competition also serves as a good platform for aspiring artists to launch their career in the arts industry. ”