The Tapestry Design Prize for Architects (TDPA) 2018 attracted a record number of 142 design submissions from 98 national and international entrants. The judging panel selected 15 finalists.
First prize was awarded to Pop Architecture and Hotham Street Ladies. Emeritus Professor Kay Lawrence AM, TDPA 2018 Judging Panel Chair remarked that "their tapestry design Chaos and Fertility, rejects the absence of ornament in Boulle's practice as well as his ideals of enlightenment and 'male reason'. Their design playfully responds to Walsh's brief through their subversion of the western canon, with a focus on transgressive textiles, female history and subjectivity."
Second prize was awarded to Arturo Muela, Paola Ibarra and Daniela Gutirrez for Colliding Universes in Saint Peter’s Four Meter Woollen Eye, which also won the People's Choice Award. Third Prize was awarded to to Kevin Liu for After Turrell, Backside of the Moon.
The full list of shortlisted architects are:
3RDRM – Architectural Fragments in the Shadow of Boullée
Aaron Fein – Polaris
Arturo Muela, Paola Ibarra and Daniela Gutiérrez – Colliding Universes in Saint Peter’s Four Meter Woollen Eye
Conrad Gargett – 'Memento Mori.' Remember You Must Die
Grimshaw – Looking into the Face of God
Kenneth Wong – Naked Wonder
Kevin Liu – After Turrell, Backside of the Moon
Nicholas Miller – Warped Fragments of an Ethereal Nature
Pop Architecture and Hotham Street Ladies – Chaos and Fertility
Qing Ye – Nature
Retallack Thompson – Through to More
SAA. Studio Adrian Aguirre – Delirious Landscape
Sebastian Gatz – Interval
thingsmatter – Gravity Flower
Toby Beale, Stephen Brameld, Sally Farrah and Tasmin Vivian-Williams – Private Monument
Where: Australian Tapestry Workshop
262 - 266 Park Street
South Melbourne VIC 3205
