The ANNA Award announces the winner on Women’s day
The ANNA Awards committee finally announced the 2023 recipient on Women’s Day.
Local artist Alexandra-Naledi Holtman walks away as runner-up at the 2023 ANNA Awards after the committee’s long process of finding the winner was concluded on Women’s Day.
The ANNA Award is presented by Latitudes Online and ANNA Pure Organics, South Africa’s first locally manufactured, environmentally friendly, and organic menstrual product range.
The ANNA Awards prize winner is Nada Baraka, a Cairo-based artist who makes paintings that maintain an endless, active state of flux, swaying between abstract and surreal with her evocative application and vivid colours. Baraka seeks to generate forms in new contexts as a means to challenge and deconstruct the obvious, and tease meaning out of absurdity.
Baraka walked away with the R100 000 prize money, a profile on Latitudes Online, and a year’s supply of ANNA products while Holtman walked away with second place and 3rd place to Cazlynne Peffer.
Since every year the public gets to vote for their favourite finalist, Buqaqawuli Nobakada walked away as the ANNA’s Audience Award winner with acrylic paint on laced paper.
ANNA Award’s Nina Carew felt honoured to crown the winner on Women’s Day as their main aim is to celebrate women artists that show extraordinary originality, imagination, and dedication in their creative careers while they encourage a culture of inclusivity and connection. “This year all the contestants offered fresh voices and have already made their mark on the continent and beyond. The award offers a space to reflect society back to us by bringing light to women’s stories. Latitudes and ANNA are proud and would like to continue working hard to shine a light on talent on the continent while fostering an ethos of inclusivity, which connects them all,” Carew said.
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