Sculpture Wanganui 2011 announced

Wanganui District Council is now calling for entries for Sculpture Wanganui 2011 and its associated symposium, which will be held on May 9 and 10.

 Sculpture Wanganui is an annual public arts event which aims to place Wanganui and the Whanganui River on the national and international sculptural arts map.

 A Wanganui District Council initiative, this event aspires to promote and provide excellence in sited public sculpture through an annual competition and symposium. Wanganui District Council is the major stakeholder, providing the bulk of the funding and the sculpture site.

 The competition is preceded by an open call to artists for proposals from which up to four finalists will be selected. The selection panel will be the Wanganui District Council Public Art Steering Group. These finalists will be invited to construct maquettes of their proposed works which will then be exhibited at Quay Gallery, Wanganui.

 The finalists, upon satisfactory completion and exhibition of maquettes and presenting their proposal at the symposium, will each receive a payment of NZ$2,000.00

 One winning work will be selected from the finalists by an external expert judge Rob Garrett.

 The Judge’s Award recipient will receive NZ$50,000 upon satisfactory installation of sculptural work at a site pre-determined by the Wanganui District Council.

 A People’s Choice award will be selected through public ballot.  The People’s Choice Award recipient will receive an additional NZ$5,000.

 Should the People’s Choice and the judge’s decision be the same, the People's Choice will be awarded to the second highest polling entry.

 Timeframes:

• All entries must be received no later than 5pm 11 March 2011.
• Finalists will be announced on 18 March 2011.
• Finalists’ maquettes exhibited at Quay Gallery 15 April 2011.
• Award Ceremony for the winning entrants at Quay Gallery 6 May 2011.
• Sculpture Wanganui Symposium 2011 held on 9-10 May 2011.
• Exhibition of maquettes closes 16 May 2011.
• Installation of winning works along riverfront between 8 and 12 August 2011.

 This competition is open to all artists throughout the wider Asia Pacific region.

 All submissions must include hard copy A4 and digital copy on USB stick of:

Artist’s name, address, email and phone number

Name of proposed sculpture

Media

Dimensions including weight and or decibels or lux at 10 metres.

Brief artist statement.

Brief bio.

Colour high resolution (A4 at 300DPI) images of proposed work (up to four views of each work).

CD or memory stick preferable.

Submissions accepted in either Maori or English language.

 Be sure to label all material.

 Mailing address:

Sculpture Wanganui 2011

Attention Don Hunter

PO Box 637

Wanganui

New Zealand

Courier Address:

Sculpture Wanganui 2011

Attention Don Hunter

101 Guyton Street

Wanganui

New Zealand

Selection criteria include artistic merit, craftsmanship, suitability to site, appropriateness for public interaction.

The intended site for the winning sculpture is on the river side of Somme Parade between Plymouth and Mathieson streets (http://maps.google.co.nz/maps).

 Deadline for entries:

All entries must be received no later than 5.00pm 11 March 2011.

The selection and judging decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Entry is conditional on the following:

Agreement to allow any information supplied by entrant to be used and distributed for publicity purposes.

 As a selected finalist in Sculpture Wanganui 2011, finalists commit to constructing and exhibiting a maquette suitable for public exhibition at Quay Gallery, Wanganui.

 Maquettes from the time of exhibition become the property of Wanganui District Council.

 Finalists are willing and able to give a 15 minute presentation describing their arts practice and the working process leading up to the exhibition of their maquette at Quay Gallery as part of Sculpture Wanganui Symposium 2011.

The Judge’s Award recipient is willing and able to supply all working drawings and engineer’s calculations necessary to satisfy the Wanganui District Council as to the suitability of the proposed sculptural work for installation at a location predetermined by the Wanganui District Council.

The award recipient is able and willing to ensure the selected sculpture is satisfactorily installed on or before 15 August 2011.