The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize is an annual acquisitive award for small sculpture, organised by the Woollahra Council in New South Wales, Australia. It is recognised as Australia's leading small-scale sculpture competition with a prize pool of over . In 2024 the prize attracted over 750 submissions from Australian and international artists.
The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize was established in 2001 and is open to any freestanding sculptural work up to 80 cm in any direction. The major award earns a place in the Woollahra Council’s permanent public art collection.
The prize consists of the main Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize valued at $25,000, the non-acquisitive Special Commendation award of $2,000, Mayor's Award of $1,000 and the Viewers' Choice award of $1,000. Selected winners
2001 – Sebastian Di Mauro with Snare – Shimmer Suite 2002 – Jan King with Leda 2003 – Mikala Dwyer with Empty Sculpture 2004 – Bruce Slatter with Smashing 2005 – Jessie Cacchillo & Craig Waddell with Ruby Rabbit 2006 – Louis Pratt with The Ambassador’s Skull 3.1 2007 – Archie Moore with Humpy Goona 2008 – Adam Cullen with Pegasus flying over Sydney 2009 – Alexander Seton with I...U 2010 – Archie Moore with Humpy Goona 2011 – Margaret Seymour with Pas de deux 2012 – Thor Beowulf with The Carbon Credit Machine 2013 – Julia deVille with Sorrow 2014 – Natalie Guy with Form for modern living #2 2015 – Robert Owen with Symmetria #37’ 2016 – Todd Robinson with Psychic Staircase 2017 – Sanné Mestrom with Self Portrait (Sleeping Muse) 2018 – Tim Silver with Untitled (When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 02) 2019 – Merran Esson with Autumn On The Monaro 2021 – Rhonda Sharpe with Desert woman with mustache, coolamon and pretty clothes 2023 – Anita Johnson with Tenderness 2024 – Hannah Gartside with Bunnies in Love, Lust and Longing 2025 – Virginia Leonard for Glad that you are not here all the time – an urn for unwanted limbs and other things
References
External links "Acquisitions Collection 2001–2021" (PDF). Woolahra Small Sculpture Prize., Woolahra Municipal Council, 2021.