Sculpture by the Sea Announces Awards
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi announced the award recipients for the 18th annual exhibition on Friday 24 October 2014 at the opening party held at Art Gallery of New South Wales.
See more at http://www.sculpturebythesea.com/exhibitions/bondi.aspx
The Waverley Council Mayor’s prize of $5,000 was awarded to Kerrie Argent from Western Australia for her sculpture ‘Overconsumption’. Kerrie’s striking work is located on the rocks on the walk between Marks Park and Bondi. It is created by 80,000 plastic bottle tops which are joined by 185,000 cable ties to create five great mountains of garbage which slump over the rocks.
‘Overconsumption’ was chosen by the exhibition’s judging panel: Dr Michael Hill, Head of Art History and Theory at National Art School, Erlend Høyersten, Director of ARoS (Denmark) and Denise Mimmochi, Curator, Australian Art at Art Gallery of NSW.
The Art Gallery Society of NSW prize of $5,000, donated by the Art Gallery Society of NSW, was awarded to Hannah Steefkerk a Dutch artist living in Sweden, for her sculpture ‘To Take Care Of’ and was chosen by Anne Ryan, Curator, Australian Prints, Drawing and Watercolours, AGNSW. A series of stones and bandages, this sensitive work is speckled across the rocks where the pathway from Bondi Beach begins.
The Andrea Stretton Memorial Invitation of $5,000 to exhibit in Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe in Perth 2015 was awarded to NEON from Victoria, for their sculpture ‘House of Mirrors’. Created by an award winning design company, the work re-defines the architecture of the common beach and is made of series of mirrors and gabion cages designed to accentuate the key views of the outside world.
The Wallace Arts Trust New Zealand Sculptor Award of $NZ7,000 was awarded to Chris Bailey, from Waiheke Island, Auckland. This generous award assisted Chris with the transportation of the hefty granite work from Auckland and the installations costs of the sculpture ‘Bondi Points’. Inspired by Aboriginal stone blades found on Bondi Beach in 1899, the work references both past and future in promoting contemporary discussion around Australia’s history as Australia looks forward to its future.
The Macquarie Group Sculpture Inside Prize of $2,500 was awarded to Ralph Tikerpea from NSW, for his sculpture ‘Modern Family’.
At the launch of the 18th annual Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi at Marks Park, on Wednesday 23rd October, the Premier of NSW, The Hon. Mike Baird announced Peter Lundberg from the United States, as the recipient of the $60,000 Macquarie Group Sculpture Prize, one of the most generous prizes in the world for his sculpture ‘Ring’.
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Yering Station 2014 Sculpture Exhibition and Awards
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| Andrew Bryant "The Stone and the Feather" |
At this year’s sculpture exhibition at Yering Station three ASV members were selected as finalists to exhibit work: Andrew Bryant, Graham Duell and Rudi Jass.
For his stainless steel and granite kinetic work, ‘The Stone and the Feather’, the judges awarded Andrew Bryant, at the Opening in late October, the Yering at Heide Sculpture Award. Congratulations Andrew! This innovative award will see Andrew’s work put on display in the surrounding gardens of the prestigious Heide Museum of Modern Art for three months in early 2015.
The $12,000 Yering Station Sculpture Award was won by Kate James for her delicate yet evocative work, ‘Held’. The $5,000 Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Sculpture Award was won by Brenda Page whose work, ‘Dysfunctional’, made a striking statement about mourning and sentimentality.
Mark Cowie
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Winner of the 2015 Tesselaar Sculpture Prize
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| Hovik Israelian "The Lion" |
Hovik Israelian
(13)
‘The Lion’
welded carbon steel
110 x 50 x 222 cms
$10,000
The Lion represents majesty, power, strength and positivity. I have always been in awe of the mighty lion and wanted to reproduce a sculpture that embodied all the elements that I admired. The lion is a positive symbol for all cultures; known as a protector and, in folklore tales throughout history, for its loyalty.
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Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2014 Finalists
The finalists in the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2014 have been selected and are listed below. The recipient will be announced on 13 November 2014.
Kay Abude
John Nixon
Scott Mitchell
Louise Paramor
Spiros Panigirakis
Geoff Robinson
The Melbourne Prize Trust would like to thank all applicants in the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2014.
November finalist exhibition & public voting
Voting for one of the six finalists (listed above) to win the $4,000 Civic Choice Award 2014 will commence, on this website, from the start of the Federation Square finalists exhibition, 10 to 24 November 2014, and in the free catalogue, which will be available at the exhibition.
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McClelland is pleased to announce the
McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award 2014 finalists
Beth Arnold Dean Bowen Matt Calvert Bozo Ink Will Coles Marcel Cousins Hendrik Forster Betra Fraval Wanda Gillespie Matthew Harding David Horton Greg Johns Tunni Kraus Jonathan Leahey Susan Lincoln Lucas Maddock Anton McMurray Sanne Mestrom Dorota Mytych James Parrett Sonia Payes Simon Perry Terrance Plowright Louis Pratt Phil Price Lisa Roet & Charlie Owen Andrew Rogers Anne Ross Faustas Sadauskas Benjamin Storch Marcus Tatton Vince Vozzo Crystal Wagner Jason Waterhouse
Since its inception in 2003, the McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award has emerged as the most important biennial outdoor sculpture exhibition in Australia. The exhibition presents 35 works in an outdoor exhibition that highlights the diversity and invention of contemporary sculpture. The 2014 McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award will be open to the public from Sunday 23 November 2014 until Sunday 19 July 2015 at McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery. There will be an opening on the 23rd November at 3pm.
For further infomation please contact:
McClelland Survey Coordinator Ph: 03 9789 1671 ext. 106
survey@mcclellandgallery.com
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