The 35 artists will fill Scenic World’s natural Jurassic rainforest in the Blue Mountains with world-class for the upcoming Sculpture at Scenic World 2014.
Now in its third year, the exhibition will feature a Yuin artist (NSW Southcoast), international artists from the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong and Ireland, alongside 17 New South Wales artists, 12 from the Blue Mountains and one from Tasmania.
An exciting new development for the 2014 exhibition is a site-responsive commissioned sculpture by revered Australian visual artist, Ken Unsworth. The commission is part of Sculpture Projects, a new initiative by Scenic World to invite iconic artists to the Blue Mountains. Unsworth’s Harlequin’s Shuttle is the first in the Sculpture Projects series and will become part of the Sculpture at Scenic World collection.
“Scenic World is delighted to have the presence of Ken Unsworth’s sculpture not only in our rainforest but it will also be the first time he has exhibited here in the Blue Mountains.” said Joint Managing Director, David Hammon.
Sculpture at Scenic World offers artists a $20,000 Scenic World Acquisitive Award, $5000 Artist Peer Award, $2000 Scenic World Staff Choice Award, and The Carrington Hotel’s $1000 People’s Choice Award.
Participating artists will also have the opportunity through a new partnership between Sculpture at Scenic World and the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre to exhibit at the Cultural Centre from 9 June to 7 July 2014.
Exhibition Manager and Curator, Lizzy Marshall, has begun reviewing the natural landscape and selected artworks for the strategic and challenging curatorial process. “The 2014 selection is going to an exceptional exhibition. The artists have developed different frameworks to respond to the natural environment. Key themes include absorptive blacks, reflective surfaces and architectural responses to the rainforest. I’m very much looking forward to seeing the finished works in situ next year.” Ms Marshall said.
Sculpture at Scenic World
24 April to 18 May, 2014
New South Wales
2014 Sculpture at Scenic World Judging Panel [L-R] Anthony Bond, Binghui Huangfu, and Richard Goodwin
