Congratulations to Pop Architecture and Hotham Street Ladies for receiving first prize in the Tapestry Design Prize for Architects 2018 for their compelling design Chaos and Fertility.

Emeritus Professor Kay Lawrence AM, TDPA 2018 Judging Panel Chair remarked that "their tapestry design Chaos and Fertility, rejects the absence of ornament in Boullée'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 + Daniela Gutiérrez for Colliding Universes in Saint Peter’s Four Meter Woollen Eye and Third Prize to Kevin Liu for After Turrell, Backside of the Moon.

Established in 2015 the Tapestry Design Prize for Architects (TDPA) challenges architects to explore the possibilities of tapestry and architecture through the creation of a tapestry design for a hypothetical site. The TDPA 2018 is a partnership between the Australian Tapestry Workshop, the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) and Architecture Media. The TDPA is the only international competition for architects to design for tapestry.

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. An exhibition of the winners and the finalists’ designs will be held at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in South Melbourne until 26 October 2018.

Click here to visit tapestrydesignprize.org.