The Tapestry Design Prize for Architects 2018 attracted a record number of 142 design submissions from 98 national and international entrants. The judging panel selected 15 finalists.

The winners of the TDPA 2018 were announced by Jane Clark, Senior Research Curator of MONA, on the 16 August 2018.

First prize was awarded to Pop Architecture and Hotham Street Ladies. Second prize was awarded to Arturo Muela, Paola Ibarra + Daniela Gutiérrez for Colliding Universes in Saint Peter’s Four Meter Woollen Eyeand Third Prize to Kevin Liu for After Turrell, Backside of the Moon.

The winning design and prize recipients were selected on the basis of artistic merit; ability to engage to a high degree with the unique qualities of tapestry; ability to design a major artwork that responds to a contemporary architectural space; and capacity to celebrate tapestry in architecture, through understanding of materials form, design and collaborative interpretation.

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

Time: 6pm - 8pm
Where: Australian Tapestry Workshop
262 - 266 Park Street
South Melbourne VIC 3205
Admission: FREE

Exhibition dates: 16 August - 26 October 2018

Voting for the People’s Choice Award of $1000 is open until 26 October.
Visit tapestrydesignprize.org for more information