Leading NZ artist who won $20,000 Aussie cricket art prize last night among artists in charity art auction in Wellington

Outstanding New Zealand artist Jane Kellahan, who last night in Sydney won the inaugural $A20,000 Australian Cricket Art Prize, is among some of the top Kiwi artists who are auctioning works in a big charity art auction in Wellington on November 1.

The inaugural Creative Charity Auction at Willis York in Wellington will help raise money for Ronald McDonald House.

Many of the artworks are from artists’ own collections and are available to the public for the first time, making them highly collectible.

As well as paintings by children previously at Ronald McDonald House, art auction items include:

• Three prints from the personal collection of the late John Drawbridge. Still Life with Malevich, is one of an edition of 50 also represented in the collection of the British Museum, while another is the very last signed print available in an edition of 100.

• Stunning lithographs from an edition of only 50 by Grahame Sydney, whose works are owned by Elton John, Nelson Mandela and Sam Neill.

• A series of 1970s abstract prints by important New Zealand print-maker Gary Tricker, a two times Queen Elizabeth Arts Council grant recipient. These prints depart from his usual subject matter of cats and railway images making them exceedingly collectible.

• Rare conceptual drawings by internationally acclaimed New Zealand filmmaker Vincent Ward from Alien 3 and his 1998 Academy Award winning film What Dreams May Come. These have never before released. Also available is one of his original, recent oil paintings. Ward’s other film projects include River Queen, Map of the Human Heart, Navigator, Vigil and last year’s Rain of the Children.

More works to go under the hammer are by known artists Sheyne Tuffrey, Matt Gauldie, Suzy Pennington, Turi Park, Manu Berry, Melissa Young, Gail Gaul, Carol Brent, Jane Gray, Scott McFarlane, Cam Munroe, Andrew Topp and Jane Kellahan.

Other auction items include:

• A motivational address to your workplace or organisation by Nathan Hoturoa Gray, bestselling author of First Pass Under Heaven – One Man's 4,000km Trek along the Great Wall of China.
• A motivational address and performance at your corporate dinner by the Guinness Book of Records, fastest tap dancer in the world, Tony Adams.
• Daniel Hayles Trio to play at your own private function.
• Lunch and studio visit with artist Matt Gauldie, current New Zealand Army Painter.
• Lunch and studio visit with artist Turi Park at his Wellington studio, the ex-workplace and home of Peter McIntrye, who was the 1941 appointed New Zealand Army Painter.
• Painting workshop with Jane Kellahan, suitable for beginners to advanced.
• Two nights’ accommodation at the brand new Grand Mercure Wellington Century City Apartments.
• Cases of top New Zealand wines including from the popular organic Wairarapa vineyard Urlar and award-winning Otago label Greylands Ridge.
• Dinner for two at Osteria del Toro in Wellington.