Entries at the moment are open for the Tapestry Design Prize 2025, a contest that challenges architects and inside designers to conceptualise a site-specific tapestry.
The competitors, offered by the Australian Tapestry Workshop, invitations architects and inside designers, both as people or as a part of a crew, to design a tapestry for a given web site. This 12 months’s chosen web site is Boyd Home II in Melbourne, designed by Robin Boyd for his household in 1957. Candidates may have the chance to create designs for 5 distinct areas inside the residence, with one finalist chosen for every area.
The competitors is open to architects and inside designers who reside and work in Australia. The 2025 jury contains director of design and product improvement at Nexus Designs Sally Evans; principal of Kennedy Nolan Patrick Kennedy, and the editor of InteriorsAu Cassie Hansen.
The latest Tapestry Design Prize competitors in 2023 was awarded to Beth George and Emerald Smart for his or her tapestry proposal titled Solstice, a design that was conceptualised for the hypothetical web site of Bundanon Artwork Museum by Kerstin Thompson Architects. Different previous websites embrace the Nationwide Gallery of Australia by Col Madigan, and Phoenix Central Park by John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers.
Entries shut 19 Might 2025, adopted by an announcement of 5 finalists in July. The finalist designs might be woven into tapestry and exhibited on the Boyd Home II in November 2025. All 5 finalists will obtain an artist payment of $1,000, whereas the folks’s selection winner will earn a further $1,000. The general winner, introduced on 13 November, might be awarded $5,000.
To seek out out extra concerning the competitors, go to the Tapestry Design Prize web site.
