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Congratulations to Irish-born, Melbourne-based artist Emma Coulter – winner of the Viewer’s Choice Award for her work Construction #7 (Shifting Test Patterns).
Artist Statement:
“Borrowing processes from architectural thought, my practice utilises acts of painting to transform, construct and alter environments, objects and surfaces. Simultaneously, negotiating between the formal and the kitsch, the concrete and the ephemeral, my aim is to challenge boundaries and make connections between the high and the low, history and currency, the intellectual and the ornamental.
In my work, colour is used as a ‘common’ agent to navigate between these opposing forces, where the central concern exists around space, and my preoccupation with its utilisation as a ‘medium’. In construction #7 (shifting test patterns), the autonomous art object explores a relationship with space through the utilisation of ‘light’ as a medium. Shifting silhouettes are revealed through this pre-determined spatial structure where the painted coloured light becomes the ephemeral art object. The parameters of spatiality are once again examined to question the distance between place and painting.”
Courtesy of Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize is a national prize for sculptures of smaller dimensions and has attracted strong support from artists, collectors, benefactors, critics, and the local community. Attracting local, national and international entries, this year’s Prize received 614 entries of which 46 finalists were selected and several winners chosen.
2016 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize ($15,000 acquisitive award)
Todd Robinson, Psychic Staircase
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Special Commendation Award ($2,000 non-acquisitive award)
Stephen Bird, Saturn eating a man’s leg
Mayor’s Award ($1,000 non-acquisitive award)
Tetsuro Yamasaki, Morph ◇ ⇨ ○ (Morph No. 6)
Yeldham Family Commendation Award ($1,000 non-acquisitive award)
Daniel Templeman, Missing Corners 2015 edition of 3 + 2AP
Highly Commended
Glenda Kent, bared
Andrew Southall, untitled
Plinth Prize
Yioryios, SOH – Black, Chromium Oxide Green, Ultramarine Blue & Pink
Emma Coulter, Construction #7 (Shifting Test Patterns), 2016, pigmented acrylic, 40 x 62 x 28cm
