On Saturday August 31, Sylvia Griffin was announced the $20,000 Major Prize winner of the 2013 Willoughby Sculpture Prize for Shoreless II, a work comprising wax, found natural objects and timber that references the subterranean experience of collective cultural trauma utilising nature and the sea as a linking metaphor for change, displacement and diaspora.
Julian Day was awarded the $3,000 Emerging Artist Award for Requiem, a sculptural intervention involving identical small synthesizers propped within architectural features in public places.
The works showcase a fresh approach to sculpture and installation that responded to the theme ‘Connexion Points: Sites of Exchange/Types of Exchange’.
The public will have the opportunity to vote during the exhibition period for the winner of the $1,000 People’s Choice Award.
Willoughby Sculpture Prize
Incinerator Art Space, 2 Small St, Willoughby, and
Art Space on The Concourse, 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood.
Until 22 September, 2013
Images:
Major Prize winner Sylvia Griffin, Shoreless II, 2011, wax, found natural objects, timber, 75 x 240 x 28cm
Photo credit: Marty Lochmann
Emerging Artist Award winner Julian Day, Requiem, 2012, found objects/assemblage (keyboards, metal rods), variable
Photo credit: Emily Sandrussi
