Art Times regular contributor Mary Corrigall receives top English award

The English Academy of Southern Africa announced this month that Mary Corrigall, the senior feature writer and art critic at The Sunday Independent and regular contributor to the South African Art Times, has won the Thomas Pringle Award for Reviews.

Corrigall was awarded for the high quality of her art review writng. Commenting on her win the adjudicators noted that: “In her writing she is never dismissive, but strives to understand the ‘why’ of an event, art form or cultural display, often penetrating to a layer of intelligibility that would escape a more superficial or judgmental tack. She is reliably perceptive, sensitively responsive, an ‘embedded’ journalist of a particular kind, willing to immerse herself in the experience at hand.”

Corrigall will be presented with her award on 21 March 2009 on the occasion of the English Academy Percy Baneshik Memorial Lecture.