Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2014 – Finalists
Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2014
Finalist exhibition at Federation Square
10 – 24 November 2014
1. Geoff Robinson (image above)
15 locations/15 minutes/15 days, 2014
Winner of the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2014
15 locations/15 minutes/15 days was a sculptural event that charted the duration of the Melbourne Prize for urban Sculpture 2014 exhibition through sound and sculpture. Starting on the first day at 6am, fifteen performers took position at a coloured post marker in Federation Square and struck a hand bell for 15 minutes. Each consecutive day the markers were repositioned and the event repeated an hour later finishing on the final day at 8pm.
2. John Nixon
Colour Mountains 2, 2014
Colour Mountains 2 (2014) is an abstract, animated flicker-style film relating to a group of Colour Mountain paintings. A rapid succession of shapes, colours and permutations on a formal theme create a dynamic retinal experience. An example of John’s multidisciplinary practice, Colour Mountain 2, was specifically developed for the large public screen for the 2014 Federation Square exhibition.
3. Kay Abude
Piecework (Federation Square), 2014
Winner of the Professional Development Award and Civic Choice Award 2014
Presented as part of the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2014, Piecework (Federation Square) was an installation and performance exhibited in the Atrium at Federation Square in November 2014. The artwork employed the ‘three-shift system’ using Federation Square as a workplace. Three uniformed workers engaged in an activity of casting plaster objects in the form of gold bars.
4. Scott Mitchell
the Listener, 2014
the Listener is a propositional art project that calls for the construction of a large scale sculpture and functional radio telescope in Melbourne’s Royal Park. The presentation at the Federation Square 2014 exhibition was the first step in a collective imagining of the Listener’s construction. The work at Federation Square received radio signals from space, tracking emissions from the Sun, the planet Jupiter, the galactic plane of the Milky Way and background radiation from the Big Bang.
5. Louise Paramor
Ursa Major, 2014
In Federation Square there is an awful lot happening, presenting my artwork amongst this was a great experience. It not only reached a much greater audience than usual, it tested my practise – both on a conceptual and physical level.
6. Spiros Spanigirakis
MOORABBIN, 2014
Federation Square gives artists the opportunity to engage with a broad public in a commercially-driven context. Whilst this might present an artist with difficulties – the artwork MOORABBIN (2014) was presented with an understanding that the civic and the social are often framed by commercial imperatives.
Images courtesy of Leisa Hunt Photography.
Images below:
2. Colour Mountains 2, 2014
3. Piecework (Federation Square), 2014
4. the Listener, 2014
5. Ursa Major, 2014
6. MOORABBIN, 2014
