The 2014 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize – Australia’s pre-eminent national prize for small sculpture – has been awarded to an international artist for the first time in the Prize’s 14-year history. New Zealand artist Natalie Guy, based in Auckland, has been awarded the $15,000 acquisitive main prize for her work, Form for modern living #2, a five-kilogram bronze cast of what was originally a reworked plywood school-chair.
Form for modern living #2 builds on a series of ‘pseudo-modernist’ sculptures that Guy began creating in 2012, exploring the nature of what is collected and exhibited in both the private and public sphere. Greatly influenced by modernist mid-century interior objects, domestic interiors and the familiarity of everyday objects, she also draws from celebrated British sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s series of Forms.
Guy was selected from a record number of almost 600 entries by a judging panel comprised of Carriageworks Director Lisa Havilah, former Director of Sotheby’s Australia, Justin Miller and philanthropist Gretal Packer.
The winners of the Special Commendation, Mayor’s Award, the Highly Commended, the Viewer’s Choice awards and the Plinth Prize will be announced at the official launch event on the evening of Friday 17 October 2014 held at the Woollahra Council Chambers in Sydney.
Woollahra Council Chambers
18 October to 2 November, 2014
Sydney
2014 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize winner, New Zealand artist Natalie Guy
Natalie Guy, Form for modern living #2
