2025 Small Sculpture Award
The bi-annual Small Sculpture Award is being held on 28 March 2025 and entries are now open. With a successful 2023 exhibition, we are excited to host these awards at the Artspost galleries in Kirikiriroa, Hamilton. Small works in all mediums will be judged by Dr. Glen Hayward. The call is out for entries from ages 15+ to all artists throughout Aotearoa, New Zealand.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Entry is open to both New Zealand citizens and those who hold permanent residency in New Zealand.
Maximum size is 500 x 500 x 500mm.including the frame; oversized works will be disqualified. No refunds will be given.
Price including GST and commission 35%)
The artist statement is to be no more than 50 words and must not contain your name as the Sculpture Award is blind judged.
Include Account details for sale of work.
PAYMENT DETAILS
Entry fee: $40 per entry
Online entry and payment made at same time
AGREEMENT
I have read the terms and conditions and agree to abide by them. The submitted entry is my own work.
I agree to the work being reproduced for the purposes of advertising, publicity, promotion of this event or any other subsequent exhibitions. No royalty or other fee is payable.
GENERAL INFORMATION
All entrants must be 15 or older on 15 February 2025.
- Artists may submit one entry only. The Waikato Society of Arts reserves the right to exclude any works which do not meet the criteria, including selected finalists. No refunds will be given. All entries must be original works, produced by the entrant.
- Artworks must have been produced no earlier than 1 January 2024 and must not have exhibited or displayed previously.
- The SSA is a three-dimensional award. The SSA is an award strictly dedicated to sculpture.
- A variation of sculpture materials can be used to form a 3-D sculpture. Innovative materials, alternate and unusual stuff.
- Final decisions regarding the exhibition of any work reside with the judge and the WSA.
- Delivery (to Hamilton, NZ) and collection of the artwork is the responsibility of the artist.
- Each artwork must be delivered and ready for exhibition. We cannot accommodate suspended artworks.
- The WSA will take all care with all artworks but accepts no responsibility or any loss or damage which may occur. Artists should arrange their own insurance.
- Neither your entry nor any supporting information (including price) may be added to or altered once it has been submitted.
- All entries must be digital and entered online under Awards at wsa.org.nz.
All entrants will be notified via email on 25 February 2025 regarding whether or not they are finalists in the 2025 SSA. This email will include information regarding the opening and prize giving which will be free to attend and open to all.
Award Dates
Award Prizes
This Year's Judge:
Glen Hayward was born in 1974 in Auckland New Zealand and is known for his sculptures of everyday, mass-produced items. Carved from wood and painted exactly as they were as found objects, they masquerade as the real. Hayward completed his doctoral dissertation at Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 2005.
“I work at the intersection of carving and painting, I find all the world of things endlessly fascinating and potentially meaningful. This way of making solves two tensions, one my tendency to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of things, the time it takes to carve things limits the number of things I can make. The second is more process based, it acknowledges that selection of the ‘thing’ reflects a way of understanding the world, as the ready-made enacts.
Although the world is fecund the mere presentation of it shows – an angle not all angles. To make a ready-made incites a value for the thing depicted, it permits a physical understanding of the world through making and parallels this through viewing.”
