Winners of Australian Tapestry Workshop Competitions

 

 

 

Captions: Clockwise from top, Shadow, Britt Salt, 25.5 x 22cms; Line Drawing (for Gosia), Sara Lindsay, 26 x 18.5cms; Old Fringes, Annika Ekdahl, 27 x 30 cms; Portrait of a Strange, Constanza Guerrero, 18 x 13.5cms.

 

Back in May we shared details of the Kate Derum and Irene Davies Awards for small tapestries by the Australian Tapestry Workshop. 146 entries were submitted from 20 countries. The winner of the Kate Derum award for established artists is Annika Ekdahl from Sweden. Her piece Old Fringes is inspired by 16th-17th Century symbolic painting. Australians Britt Salt and Sara Lindsay were highly commended.

Constanza Guerrero from Chile took the award for the Irene Davies Emerging Artist with her Portrait of a Stange. Fragments of memory and interlocking shapes depict the occurrence of sharing a space with strangers everyday. If you are anywhere near Melbourne Australia, you can view these and other entries until 13th September Tuesdays – Fridays 10am-5pm. For more information visit www.austapestry.com.au