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2019 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
List of winners
2019 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize ($20,000 acquisitive award)
Merran Esson, Autumn On The Monaro
Special Commendation Award ($2,000 non-acquisitive award)
Benjamin Jay Shand, Array 3
Highly Commended
Jessica Leitmanis, Spouts from which to drink, circa 200 C.E.
Kieta Jackson, Braggadocio 1, 2018
Mayor's Award ($1,000 non-acquisitive award)
Jane Price, Clouds
Plinth Prize
Erica Izard, Homage to Grief
Viewers' Choice Award ($1,000 non-acquisitive award)
To be announced at the conclusion of the exhibition in November
Media releases
11 October 2019
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2019 Winner announced (PDF)
The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, presented by Woollahra Council, today announced Sydney based artist Merran Esson and her work Autumn On The Monaro as the winner of the 19th annual acquisitive $20,000 Prize. Sydney artist Benjamin Jay Shand was awarded the Special Commendation award valued at $2,000 and artists Kieta Jackson, from Norwich, England, and Jessica Leitmanis, from Torquay, received a special mention. The 2019 Mayor's Award valued at $1,000 has been awarded to Adelaide artist Jane Price.
26 September 2019
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces diverse program of free events (PDF)
14 August 2019
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces 2019 finalists (PDF)
2019 finalists list (PDF)
1 April 2019
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces 2019 judges (PDF)
2018 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
List of winners
2018 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize ($20,000 acquisitive award)
Tim Silver, Untitled (When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 02)
Special Commendation Award ($2,000 non-acquisitive award)
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Pointy Gold Head
Special Mention
Danielle Freakley, Be My Friend
Mayor's Award ($1,000 non-acquisitive award)
Lucinda Kirkby, Genet Yellow Porcelain
Plinth Prize
Tilly Kubany-Deane, Untitled (Milieu Trepidation)
Viewers' Choice Award ($1,000 non-acquisitive award)
Jess MacNeil, Threshold
Media releases
19 October 2018
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces 2018 Winner (PDF)
2 August 2018
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces 2018 finalists (PDF)
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2018 finalists list (PDF)
23 May 2018
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces 2018 judges (PDF)
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2018: Small is beautiful:
2017 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
List of winners
2017 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize ($20,000 acquisitive award)
Sanné Mestrom, Self Portrait (Sleeping Muse)
Special Commendation Award ($2,000 non-acquisitive award)
Madeleine Preston, Smoker Series - After Guston
Mayor's Award ($1,000 non-acquisitive award)
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Black Dog
Viewers' Choice Award ($1,000 non-acquisitive award) and Plinth Prize
Sergio Hernandez, Impotence
Media releases
13 October 2017
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize presented to Melbourne artist (PDF)
2 August 2017
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces 2017 finalists (PDF)
Video of the 2017 judging process with Djon Mundine OAM, Alexie Glass-Kantor and Roslyn Oxley OAM:
26 April 2017
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces 2017 judges and increased prize money (PDF)
2016 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
List of winners
2016 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize ($15,000 acquisitive award)
Todd Robinson, Psychic Staircase
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
Viewers' Choice Award ($1,000 non-acquisitive award)
Emma Coulter, construction #7 (Shifting Test Patterns)
Media releases
14 October 2016
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize presented to Sydney artist (PDF)
18 July 2016
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces 2016 finalists (PDF)
30 March 2016
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces 2016 guest judges Wendy Whiteley, Barry Keldoulis & Rhonda Davis (PDF)
2015 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
List of winners
2015 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize ($15,000 acquisitive award)
Robert Owen, Symmetria #37
Special Commendation Award ($2,000 non-acquisitive award)
Rocket Mattler, Shim
Mayor's Award ($1,000 non-acquisitive award)
Glen Clarke, Proposed Monument for Continuing Sustainability #010
Highly Commended
Hwanhee Kim, Diameter 9 (3:2 series)
Kathy Temin, Orange Cube
Plinth Prize
Huseyin Sami, Untitled (Long Stack)
Beowulf Award ($1,000 non-acquisitive award)
Kendal Murray, Game, Claim, Exclaim!
Special Mention
Matt Dabrowski and the Many Hands of Glamour, The Milk of Stormtroopers
Viewers' Choice Award ($1,000 non-acquisitive award)
Eli Braga, MYRIAD
Media releases
9 October 2015
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize presented to senior Australian artist Robert Owen (PDF)
27 July 2015
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces 2015 finalists (PDF)
1 April 2015
15th annual Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces 2015 guest judges and call for entries (PDF)
2014 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
List of winners
Acquisitive award of $15,000
Natalie Guy, Form for modern living #2
Special Commendation, non-acquisitive award of $2,000
Peter Cooley, Cassowary No. 7
The Mayor's Award, non-acquisitive award of $1,000
Ben Young, Fjord
Highly Commended
Gunjan Aylawadi, Ritim
Merran Esson, Euriowie Cliff
Mee-Sun Kim Park, Being
Morgan Shimeld, Triplex
Abdullah M. I. Syed, Money-scape I
Plinth Prize
Micaldo Combriani, Kinetic MC#1
Viewers' Choice, non-acquisitive award of $1,000
Ben Young, Fjord
Media releases
17 October 2014
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize presented to international artist for first time - New Zealand artist Natalie Guy awarded $15,000 acquisitive prize (PDF)
11 August 2014
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces 2014 finalists - 14th year of award attracts record number of entries and international submissions (PDF)
24 April 2014
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces 2014 judges and significant increase in prize money (PDF)
For information or images, please contact:
Jo Jansyn, Cultural Development Coordinator
Phone: +61 2 9391 7135
Email: sculpture@woollahra.nsw.gov.au