Celebrate with us online as we announce the winner of the $10,000 Tapestry Design Prize for Architects 2021.

Thursday 26 August 2021 6.30 PM AEST*

To be held ONLINE via LIVE STREAM
FREE TO ATTEND.

WATCH THE ANNOUNCEMENT HERE

*AEST is Australian Eastern Standard Time. You can check your timezone here. The announcement will be recorded and available on You Tube at a later date.

In 2021, architects from 23 countries embraced the possibilities of contemporary tapestry through 141 designs responding to the multi-award-winning Phoenix Central Park designed by John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers. Our judging panel, Cameron Bruhn (Chair), Brook Andrew, Diane Jones, Valerie Kirk, Dimmity Walker and John Wardle, selected a shortlist of fifteen finalists and the winner.

2021 Finalists:

Abhinay H Satam + Shristi D Rawat (India)
Amaia Sanchez-Velasco + Jorge Valiente Oriol (Australia)
Ana Mircetic-Velickovic (Serbia)
Anthony El Khoury (Lebanon)
Catherine Roden + Stephen Brameld (Australia)
Connected Dots Studio (Sweden)
Ground Under Repair (Australia)
Hamidreza Majnooni, Samaneh Khatamirad + Maryam Khatamirad (Australia + Iran)
Madeleine Gallagher, Julie Lee, Georgina de Beaujeu + Lis de Vries (Australia)
Michael Chapman (Australia)
multiplicity, in conjunction with Zoe Frazzetto (Australia)
Nicholas Bucci (Australia)
Original Field of Architecture + Art Bunker (UK + Australia)
Studio KaaKi (Australia)
Studio WW (Australia)

Explore the finalist designs.

Exhibition of Finalists

Thursday 26 August – Friday 19 November 2021

To be held at the Australian Tapestry Workshop. Find out more.

People's Choice Award

Voting is now open for the $1000 People's Choice Award.

Voting closes: Friday 12 November 2021, 5 PM AEST.

The TDPA encourages innovation and visionary thinking by challenging architects to design contemporary tapestries. Since 2015 the prize has fostered exciting new creative dialogues between architects and tapestry weavers and received over 500 tapestry design submissions.

The Tapestry Design Prize for Architects 2021 is generously supported by Metal Manufactures Limited, Architecture Media, Creative Victoria and the City of Port Phillip.