Currently logged in. Logout
The annual Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize has announced this year’s finalists: fifty artists, both emerging and established, national and international.
Categories include the main Acquisitive award of $25,000, a Special Commendation award of $2,000, the Viewers’ Choice award of $1,000, and the Mayor’s Award of $1,000. The winning sculpture will be acquired for Woollahra Council’s permanent public collection and announced to coincide with the finalists’ exhibition opening at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Sydney, on 12 October.
This year’s judging panel comprises Sydney-based artist Joan Ross, UNSW Galleries director and curator Jose Da Silva, and editor of Artist Profile magazine, Kon Gouriotis OAM.
Ara Dolatian, Unearthed
Finalists include Ara Dolatian, Amala Groom, Franky Howell, Antoinette O’Brien, Leonie Rhodes, Lynda Draper, Mai Nguyen-Long, Michael Cusack, Pippin Drysdale and Vipoo Srivilasa, to name a few. Works explore an eclectic mix of themes, including loss of identity, decolonisation, the reimagining of ancient stories and artefacts and gender identity.
Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf Director, Sebastian Goldspink said:
“There is a vibrancy to this year’s works and numerous references to classical sculpture coupled with dynamic explorations of new or unconventional materials.”
Mai Nguyen-Long, Vigit Moc Mac
The 2022 Woollahra Sculpture Prize finalist artists are:
Agus Wijaya, Allan Giddy, Amala Groom, Amelia Lynch, Anastasia Parmson, Antoinette O’Brien, Ara Dolatian, Bianca Hester, Bruce Reynolds, Claudia Terstappen, Edward Waring, Franky Howell, Gaspare Moscone, Gina Ferguson, Guy Fredricks, Jake Preval, Jess Dare, Jessica Murtagh, Kat Shapiro Wood, Kelly Austin, Kenzee Patterson, Kirsteen Pieterse, Lee Harrop, Leonie Rhodes, Lewis Doherty, Louis Grant, Lynda Draper, Mai Nguyen-Long, Mariana Del Castillo, Mark Booth, Michael Cusack, Nabilah Nordin, Nasim Nasr, Nate Ditzler, Nicholas Burridge, Nuha Saad, Peter Burgess, Peter Tilley, Pippin Drysdale, Rebecca Selleck, Ruby Benhar Pattarkadavu, Samantha Hanicar, Sherna Teperson, Shireen Taweel, Simon Fieldhouse, Stephen Ralph, Stephen Benwell, Suzanne Archer, Vipoo Srivilasa, and Yanyangkari Butler.
