Detail from Shannon Novak's Medley Part I – XIII exhibited in Sculpture on the Gulf 2015
Sculpture on the Gulf is a temporary outdoor art exhibition on a coastal headland on Matiatia Bay, Waiheke Island , New Zealand.[ 1] [ 2] It is a biennial event founded in 2003 by the Waiheke Community Art Gallery.[ 3]
At the first event in 2003, there were two awards made: a "People’s Choice" and a "Premier" award. At artists' request the Premier award was discontinued in 2005 and a fee to each artist paid instead. A Premier award was reinstated in 2013 and 2015, but at the request of artists abandoned in 2017.[ 4]
By 2009 the exhibition took place over three, rather than two weeks, and included a programme for schools.[citation needed ]
Sculpture on the Gulf resumed in March 2022 after a break due to COVID restrictions.[ 5] [ 6]
"Waiheke Island’s biennial Sculpture on the Gulf exhibition charts [New Zealand's] own rising interest in outdoor sculpture trails. In 2003, the first year it was held, the event attracted 12,000. Numbers attending rose to 32,000 in 2011, and 40,000 in 2017."[ 7]
Many notable New Zealand artists have exhibited, over the years, in the biennial event, their works displayed along a 2 kilometre track that runs around Te Whetumatarau Point.[ 8] Exhibiting artists have included Paul Dibble , Leon van den Eijkel , Phil Price , Brit Bunkley , Neil Dawson , Fatu Feu'u , Peter Nicholls , Terry Stringer , Paratene Matchitt , Peter Lange , Denis O’Connor , Graham Bennett , Gill Gatfield , Veronica Herber , Regan Gentry , Konstantin Dimopoulos , Suji Park , Ioane Ioane , Tiffany Singh , Brett Graham , Sriwhana Spong and Chris Bailey .[citation needed ]
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Year
Date
Curators
Artists
Notes
2003
24 January to 9 February
Tim Walker (Selection Judge )
Greg Burke (Selection Judge )[ 9]
The first exhibition of 27 art installations in what would become a major New Zealand biennial art event was held on a 2.5 km trail.
2005
28 January to 13 February
Jackie O'Brien (Artistic Director ) [ 10]
Lara Strongman (Curator )
Lisa Reihana (Curator )
Chris Saines (Curator ) [ 11]
25 art installations
2007
26 January – 11 February[ 12] [ 13]
26 site responsive installations
2009
23 January and 15 February 2009
Graham Bennett
Tony Bond
Lucy Bucknall
Paul Cullen
Charlotte Fisher
Graham Fletcher
Gill Gatfield
Chris Hargreaves
Robert Jahnke
Gaye Jurisich
Meiling Lee
Nic Moon
Stephen Mulqueen
Kazu Nakagawa
Christian Nicolson
Louise Palmer
Louise Purvis
Paul Radford
Pauline Rhodes
Brydee Rood
Graham Snowden
Serene Thain
Jeff Thomson
Fletcher Vaughan
Leon van den Eijkel
Richard Wedekind
26 site responsive installations
2011
28 January to 20 February 2011
Juliet Monaghan (Director )[ 15] [ 16]
Matt Akehurst
Diane Atkinson
Chris Bailey
Ali Bramwell
Julie-Anna Child/Peter Mrost
Chiara Corbelletto
Paul Cullen
Judy Darragh /Rachel Shearer
Scott Eady
John Edgar
Gina Ferguson
Stuart Forsyth
Marcel Grosse
Mia Hamilton
Verena Jonker/Bryony Matthew
Virginia King
Gregor Kregar
Peter Lange
Suza Lawrence
David McCracken
Shane McGrath
Chris Meder
Kazu Nakagawa
Christian Nicholson
Brett Oakes
Denis O’ Connor
Grant Palliser
Phil Price
Paul Radford
Christina Read
Timothy Sang [ 17]
Duncan Sargent
A D Schierning
Marcus Tatton
Roger Thompson
Jeff Thomson
Leon van den Eijkel
Fletcher Vaughan
Ruth Watson
Carolyn Williams
40 site responsive installations
2013
25 January – 17 February
Nansi Thompson (Artistic director )
John Gow (Chair)
Sue Gardiner
Lara Strongman
Rhana Devenport (Judge )
30 site responsive installations. Ranked in the New York Times’ Top 46 places to go in the world. [ 18] 45,000 people visited the exhibition. [ 19]
Lexus Premier Award : Prize $20,000: Pavilion Structure by Gregor Kregar.
Fuller's People's Choice Award: Prize $10,000. Pavilion Structure by Gregor Kregar. [ 20]
Two Westpac/Gen-i Merit Awards: Prize $10,000 each: Catwalk by Kazu Nakagawa. Field Notes by Carolyn Williams.
Parsons Brinckerhoff Award for Engineering Excellence: Prize $5,000: Portrait of Traction and Transmission by David McCracken [ 19]
2015
23 January – 15 February
Jackie O’Brien (Artistic coordinator )
Kate Darrow
Sue Gardiner
Karl Chitham
Derrick Cherrie (Judge )[ 21] [ 22]
* Nigel Jamieson and Imersia Ltd
Christian Nicolson
Shannon Novak
James Wright
Denis O’Connor
John Hurrell
Matt Ellwood
Scott Eady
Robert Jahnke and Joshua Campbell
Elin&Keino
Virginia King
Richard Maloy
Stuart Bridson
Veronica Herber
Audrey Boyle
Xin Cheng and Chris Berthelsen
Brydee Rood
Tony Bond
Anah Dunsheath
Tania Patterson
Angus Muir and Alexandra Heaney
Cushla Donaldson
Sharonagh Montrose and Helen Bowater
Suji Park
Seung Yul Oh
Paul Radford
Jane and Mario Downes
Jeff Thomson
Ioane Ioane
David McCracken
Lonnie Hutchinson [ 23]
31 site responsive installations
Lexus Premier Award: Prize $30,000: The Precariats by Cushla Donaldson. [ 24]
Fuller's People's Choice Award: Prize $10,000.Target by James Wright. [ 25]
2017
27 January – 19 February 2017
Zara Stanhope
Linda Chalmers
Blair French (Director Curatorial and Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia)
Bruce Phillips (Senior Curator, Te Tuhi)
Kelly Carmichael[ 26] [ 27]
34 site responsive installations
Invited Artist: George Rickey: Three Squares Gyratory, Variation 2 (1971)
Invited Architects: The Gateway: Designers: Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson. Originally commissioned as the New Zealand entry for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012 but unrealised.[ 29] [ 30] [ 31] [ 32]
Fuller's People's Choice Award: Phantom Fleet by Virginia King.[ 33]
Exhibiting artists: [ 34] [ 35]
2019
1 – 24 March
Reuben Friend
Jackie O’Brien [ 36]
Dr Zara Stanhope, Abby Cunnane, Melanie Oliver (Other curators involved )[ 37] [ 38] [ 39]
Jon Hall
James Wright
Virginia King
Brit Bunkley and Andrea Gardner
Sally Smith
Robert Jahnke
Phil Price
Shannon Novak
Natalie Guy
Shelley Simpson
Ngahina Hohaia
Sharonagh Montrose
Tyler Jackson
Leon van den Eijkel
Kazu Nakagawa
Anton Forde
James Russell
Kereama Taepa
David McCracken
Tim Barlow
Mandy Cherry Joass
Kauri Hawkins
Brydee Rood
Chris Bailey
Euan Lockie
Jeff Thomson
Jae Kang
Elliot Collins
28 site responsive installations[ 40]
2022
4 - 27 March
Nigel Borell
Rachel Yates
Dr Kriselle Baker
Fiona Blanchard
Melissa Laing
Kereama Taeapa
Jonas Raw
Tyler Jackson
Aiko Groot
Denis O'Connor
Louise McCrae
Lang Ea
Brit Bunkley
Andrea Gardner
Jorge Wright
Ioane Ioane
Johl Dwyer
Julie Moselen
Margaret Feeney
Sally Smith
Natalie Guy
Chris Moore
Francisco Carbajal
Janine Williams
Virginia Leonard
Te Rongo Kirkwood
Martin Basher
James Cousins
Wanda Gillespie
Kazu Nakagawa
Salome Tanuvasa
Anton Forde
Debbie Fish
Jane Downes
30 site responsive installations.
Work by Jane and Mario Downes, Sculpture on the Gulf 2015
Detail from Paul Radford's Sculpture Walk, exhibited in Sculpture on the Gulf 2015
'The Gateway' by Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson
The Pool by Natalie Guy, Sculpture on the Gulf 2019
Ground Zero by Professor Robert Jahnke, Sculpture on the Gulf 2019
Liberace by Phil Price won the Fullers 360 Experiences People's Choice Award at Sculpture on the Gulf 2019
Kazu Nakagawa and Pacific Environments Architects work 'Kaemue Kaemuri' exhibited in Sculpture on the Gulf 2015
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