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The Helgaard Steyn Award is a prestigious annual award recognising excellence in four disciplines, alternating between musical composition, painting, literature and sculpture. Entries of work created between 2021 and 2024 were eligible for the prize, with Young being the 10th recipient of the sculpting award. Other People\u2019s Tears Are Only Water<\/em> ook beskou word as \u2019n requiem vir die verlede, wat beklemtoon hoe ontliggaamde herinneringe kan voortleef in die fragmente van voorwerpe,\u201d lui \u2019n verklaring van die beoordelaars.<\/p>\n\n\n\nYoung, born in 1978 in Welkom in the Free State, matriculated at Ho\u00ebrskool Sentraal in Bloemfontein, and obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts (2001) and Master of Fine Arts (2005), both cum laude, at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. He has exhibited locally and globally, including in the USA, Switzerland, Germany and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Past recipients of the Helgaard Steyn Award for Sculpture are David Brown (1989), Jackson Hlungwani (1993), Gert Swart (1997), Willem Boshoff (2001), Jan van der Merwe (2005), Andrieta Wentzel (2009), Wim Botha (2013), Angus Taylor (2017) and Mary Sibande (2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Die Kaapse kunstenaar Ed Young is aangewys as 2025 se wenner van die Helgaard Steyn-prys vir Beeldhoukuns vir sy werk Other People\u2019s Tears Are Only Water (2024) \u2013 \u2019n werk wat vir die beoordelaars uitgestaan het te midde van strawwe kompetisie. Hy wen prysgeld van R675 000. \u201cDie werk is niks. Die werk is \u2019n spook. \u2019n […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ed-Young_Portrait_01_3x2-scaled.jpg?fit=2000%2C1333&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}