This is an opportunity to acknowledge our landscape and the possibilities it holds for the artist/photographer. The Waikato Sculpture Trust challenges you to create a temporary sculpture of natural materials that is particular to its setting. It could be at your local beach, it could be in your vegetable patch, or it could be on a pond or the scree slope of a hill behind you.
The challenge provides an opportunity for artists, photographers, family groups and schools to create an ephemeral environmental art work, submit a photograph of it, and document the work. Test your observational skills, spontaneity, and patience to work individually or by teaming up with others.
The Waikato Sculpture Trust runs this challenge to raise awareness of sculpture and the environment. The Trust organises successive sculpture exhibitions in a unique setting, the former 42-acre quarry now transformed into The Sculpture Park @ Waitakaruru Arboretum near Hamilton.
Successful entries will demonstrate originality of thought in creating an environmental sculpture and technical excellence of the photographic image. The judges will take into account three features of your entry: the overall sculptural concept, the photographic image, and the artist's statement/ documentation.
From the entries, 14 images will be chosen as the finalists. These images will be printed at a 11 x 15 size, mounted, and then exhibited at Artspost in Hamilton during May. The award ceremony will take place at the opening of the exhibition.
The first place award winner will receive $500 and other finalists will be acknowledged as runners up.
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