2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize

13 September - 20 October 2024

Angus Gardner, Landscape Painting 7

Established in 2001, the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize is Australia’s pre-eminent award for small sculpture and is the first national acquisitive prize for an original sculpture of up to 80cm in any dimension.

For the 2024 prize, judges Erin Vink, Liz Nowell and Jarrod Rawlins selected a total of 59 finalists, including:

Ingmar Apinis, Sean Bacon, Nathan Beard, Stephen Benwell, Lucie Billingsley, Stephen Bird, Karen Black, Jeremy Blincoe, Christian Bonett, Jasmine Bruce, Emma Bugg, Madeline Cardone, Kirsty Collins, Mitchell Davis, Lorraine Dean, Lynda Draper, Mark Eliott, Nic Fern, Chantal Fraser, Angus Gardner, Hannah Gartside, Wanda Gillespie, Minka Gillian, Nani Graddon, Grace Hasu Dlabik, Marcel Hoogstad Hay, Penny Howard, Freya Jobbins, Paul Kaptein, Virginia Keft, Simone Kennedy, Andrew Lavery, Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler, Grace Lee, Jane Lennon, Simon Lownsborough, Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello OAM, Ben Mazey, Sara Morawetz, Erica Muriata, James Nguyen, Fiona Omeenyo, Yoko Ozawa, Amanda Page, Liliana Pasalic, Eleonora Pasti, Jane Price, Nani Puspasari, Augusta Vinall Richardson, Marlene Connolly & Hazel Roy, Nuha Saad, Astrid Salomon, Kien Situ, Jane Theau, Kate Tucker, Tahlia Undarlegt, William Versace, Ken and Julia Yonetani, and Ben Young.

Our finalists works span a variety of mediums, including clay, silk, porcelain, glass, ceramic, wood, silicone and more, with works that delve into themes of dystopian futures, authoritarianism and the aesthetics of power, bodily memory, disability pride, folklore, fantasy, kin, Cultural inheritance, and the intersection of tradition and modernity. Using diverse mediums to provoke thought and engage with contemporary issues and experiences, this year's works reflect personal and collective narratives, materiality, and the human condition.

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