THE 2025 HELGAARD STEYN PRIZE FOR SCULPTURE:
ED YOUNG - Other People’s Tears Are Only Water
Helgaard Steyn Awards are awarded annually, alter- nated in a four-year cycle, to:
The painter who, during the afore-going four years, produced the best painting and offered it for sale at a public exhibition, or who produced such painting, commissioned by a private person or a public body, on the understanding that it be placed in public in a way that allows reasonable public access.
The author of the best work of any nature in Afrikaans that, during the afore-going four years, was offered for sale on the open market in at least three hundred (300) print-copies.
The sculptor who, during the afore-going four years, produced the best sculpture and offered it for sale at a public exhibition, or who produced such sculpture, commissioned by a private person or a public body, on the understanding that it be placed in public in a way that allows reasonable public access.
The composer who, during the afore-going four years, composed the best piece of music and offered at least ten complete copies available for sale on the open market.
The History of the Helgaard Steyn Trust
The Helgaard Steyn Trust originates from the estate of the late Dr. Johan Heinrich (Jan) Steyn. He was born on 20 April, 1902 and was the eldest of six children of Barendina Wilhelmina (Dina) Richter and Hillegard Mulder (Helgaard) Steyn.
Dr. Steyn was an ex-student of the former Grey University College (the present-day University of the Free State). He obtained a doctorate in Economy and Political Science (cum laude) from the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
In 1961, Potchef- stroom University College (the present-day North-West University) awarded him with an honorary doctorate in Economic Science.
Until his retirement, in 1966, he served as an MP for Potchefstroom. Dr. Steyn was never married. He died in Bloemfontein on 15 December, 1983 at the age of 81 years.
1987 – Pippa Skotnes for Lament/Klaagsang
1991 – Nel Erasmus for Jazz Baby/Spent Autumn
1995 – Robert Hodgins for South African Summer: All This is So, And Yet …
2003 – Cyril Coetzee for T’kama-Adamastor
2007 – Bronwen Findlay for All about everything
2011 – Pauline Gutter for Silenced I
2015 – Penny Siopis for Swarm
2019 – Pat Mautloa for Urban Vibes (City Buzz)
1989 – David Brown for Voyage II
1993 – Jackson Hlungwani for Tiger Fish II, Adam and the birth of Eve, Large crucifix, God and Christ, Michael Star and Altar of God
2001 – Willem Boshoff for Blind alphabet ABC
2005 – Jan van der Merwe for Showcase
2009 – Andrieta Wentzel for Aspects of the dark other
2013 – Wim Botha for Blastwave
2017 – Angus Taylor for Dionysus
1988 – Karel Schoeman for ’n Ander land
1992 – John Miles vir Kroniek uit die doofpot
1996 – Breyten Breytenbach for Nege landskappe van ons tye bemaak aan ’n beminde
2000 – John Kannemeyer for Leipoldt: ’n Lewensverhaal
2008 – Marlene van Niekerk for Agaat and Hermann Giliomee for Die Afrikaners
2012 – PG du Plessis for Fees van die ongenooides
2016 – Willem Anker for Buys
2020 – Lodewyk G. du Plessis for die Dao van Daan van der Walt
1990 – Roelof Temmingh for Drie sonnette
1994 – Peter Klatzow for From the poets
1998 – Stefans Grové for Afrika Hymnus II
2002 – Roelof Temmingh for Kantate Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein
2006 – Roelof Temmingh for Kantorium
2010 – Hans Huyssen for Proteus Variations
2014 – Peter Klatzow for Lightscapes
2018 – Adrian More for Klavierkonsert No 1
2022 – Christo Jankowitz vir String Quartet No 3