- Venue
- The Royal British Society of Sculptors
- Starts
- Thursday, February 24, 2011
- Ends
- Friday, March 25, 2011
- Address
- 108 Old Brompton Road London SW7 3RA
- Location
- London
Now in its third year the FIRST@108 Public Art Award provides a rare opportunity for one sculptor to extend their practice into competing for public art commissions. Competition was fierce with over 225 international applications exploring the theme of ‘Transition’. Five sculptors have now been short listed: Jenske Dijkhuis, Susan Forsyth ARBS, Nicholas Horrigan, Juile Major and Kate McLeod. The five artists also represent a diversity of sculptural practice: Dijkhuis’s enigmatic architectural follies, Forsyth’s opulently surfaced geometric forms, Horrigan’s bold landscape interventions, Major’s alluringly aggressive organic forms and McLeod’s powerfully visceral expressions of the figure. The winner will receive £10,000 to produce their finished piece, which will be exhibited in front of the RBS later in the year before moving to a second high-profile location.
