The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize is an annual acquisitive award for small sculpture, organised by the Woollahra Council in New South Wales, Australia.[1] It is recognised as Australia's leading small-scale sculpture competition with a prize pool of over A$29,000.[2] In 2024 the prize attracted over 750 submissions from Australian and international artists.[3]
The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize was established in 2001 and is open to any freestanding sculptural work up to 80 cm in any direction. The major award earns a place in the Woollahra Council’s permanent public art collection.[4]
The prize consists of the main Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize valued at $25,000, the non-acquisitive Special Commendation award of $2,000, Mayor's Award of $1,000 and the Viewers' Choice award of $1,000.[4]
Selected winners
edit- 2001 – Sebastian Di Mauro with Snare – Shimmer Suite
- 2002 – Jan King with Leda
- 2003 – Mikala Dwyer with Empty Sculpture
- 2004 – Bruce Slatter with Smashing
- 2005 – Jessie Cacchillo & Craig Waddell with Ruby Rabbit[5]
- 2006 – Louis Pratt with The Ambassador’s Skull 3.1
- 2007 – Archie Moore with Humpy Goona
- 2008 – Adam Cullen with Pegasus flying over Sydney
- 2009 – Alexander Seton with I...U
- 2010 – Archie Moore with Humpy Goona[6]
- 2011 – Margaret Seymour with Pas de deux[7]
- 2012 – Thor Beowulf with The Carbon Credit Machine[8]
- 2013 – Julia deVille with Sorrow
- 2014 – Natalie Guy with Form for modern living #2[9]
- 2015 – Robert Owen with Symmetria #37’ [10]
- 2016 – Todd Robinson with Psychic Staircase [11]
- 2017 – Sanné Mestrom with Self Portrait (Sleeping Muse)
- 2018 – Tim Silver with Untitled (When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 02)
- 2019 – Merran Esson with Autumn On The Monaro
- 2021 – Rhonda Sharpe with Desert woman with mustache, coolamon and pretty clothes
- 2023 – Anita Johnson with Tenderness[12]
- 2024 – Hannah Gartside with Bunnies in Love, Lust and Longing[1]
See also
edit- "Aquisitions Collection 2001–2021" (PDF). Woolahra Small Sculpture Prize., Woolahra Municipal Council, 2021.
References
edit- ^ a b Review, Arts (14 September 2024). "Hannah Gartside wins the 23rd Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize". Australian Arts Review. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ "Hannah Gartside wins the 2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize". Art News Aotearoa. 16 September 2024. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ "Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize". Art Collector Magazine. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ a b "Woollahara Small Sculpture Prize". Woollahra Gallery.
- ^ "Ruby Rabbit • Craig Waddell". Craig Waddell. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ Taylor, Andrew (23 October 2010). "Smallest is the best but decadence is declined". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ "Margaret Seymour – ISEA Symposium Archives". isea-archives.siggraph.org. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ "Woollahra-Small-Sculpture-Prize-Thor-Beowulf-The-Carbon-Credit-Machine-0091714_120912083207". Art Almanac. 31 October 2012. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ "2014 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize". Artist Profile. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ "Robert Owen | Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Winner". Artist Profile. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ Wallace 18 Oct 2016, Francesca (18 October 2016). "The winner of the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize has been announced". Vogue Australia.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Bratovich, Rita (28 September 2023). "Small sculpture artist bowled over by big prize". City Hub. Retrieved 10 December 2024.