Entries open: 2016 Tapestry Design Prize for Architects
Perspective on a Flat Surface by John Wardle Architects, joint first prize winner of the 2015 Tapetry Prize for Architects.
Long Term Parking by Kristin Green (KGA Architecture) and Michelle Hamer, joint first prize winner of the 2015 Tapetry Prize for Architects.
The Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW) has launched the 2016 ATW Tapestry Design Prize for Architects.
The prize invites architects to create design proposals for a site specific tapestry, which this year is to be hypothetically located in the National Gallery of Australia, in Canberra, designed by Col Madigan.
“This competition aims to promote and reinvigorate the connection between architectural built form and textile art,” said Peter Williams, chairman of Australian Tapestry Workshop and founding director of Williams Boag Architects. “By building an awareness of tapestry as a relevant medium that sits comfortably within the materiality of contemporary architectural thinking, it provides another tool that architects can draw on to craft spaces to inhabit and uplift the soul created in this increasingly complex and challenging world.”
The competition is open until 5pm, 26 June 2016. Entrants may submit up to three designs. Finalists will be announced in July and an exhibition of the finalists’ designs will open 30 August.
The prizes are:
$5,000 for first prize
$2,500 for second prize
$1,500 for third prize
$1,000 for the People’s Choice prize
For further entry details, click here.
The judges for this year’s prize include Professor Kay Lawrence (chair, University of South Australia), John Denton (Denton Corker Marshall), Brian Zulaikha (Tonkin Zulaikha Greer), Julie Ewington (curator and arts writer), Kieran Wong (CODA) and Alice Hampson (Alice Hampson Architects).
In 2015, John Wardle Architects Perspective on a Flat Surface and Kristin Green and Michelle Hamer’s Long Term Parking were each awarded first prize.
