Prize Winner 2018
Sculpture on the Farm Acquisitive Prize – $10,000 won by Braddon Snape – Nothin’ But Sky
This work beckons one to immerse oneself, to focus one’s view of the expansive Australian sky in a moment of isolation. As one projects one’s head through the portal one sees nothin’ but sky.
Sculpture on the Farm People’s Choice Award
Frolic by Felicity Cavanough
As though stumbling on a hidden treasure, this sculpture invites you into a shared moment of delight between a mother and her child. Relishing in their environment and each other.
Sculpture on the Farm People’s Choice Award – $500 won by Felicity Cavanough with Frolic
Copper pipe and wire
The Norco Prize for Dungog Shire Sculptor
These works explore the connection between women and clay, through their swollen belly’s, dimpled curves and stretch mark narratives I want to celebrate this connection.
Ceramic
Bloomfield Group Prize for Artistic Excellence – $500 won by Carolyn Rendle with Moulds
Fortified lace, metal mesh, resin
The Sculptors Society Prize indoor work – Sculpture on the Farm 2018
Philippa Graham
Painted Timber
RUPIO Prize for Metallurgical Excellence
My recent works are concerned with the symbolic effects of the cast shadow. The imagery draws on the Greek legend of Narcissus and Jung’s theory of the shadow as the ‘dark side of the self’.
Cast iron, polished stainless steel, corten steel
RUPIO Prize for Metallurgical Excellence – $1,000 won by Peter Tilley with Inside the Mirror