Biennale 2022 ‘Spirit of Place’

‘Spirit of Place’ saw a new curatorial model for Lorne Sculpture Biennale – a model that showed the intrinsic link between art and placemaking.

Sixteen artists were invited to each provide a sculptural response to one of sixteen locations along Lorne’s foreshore. Each site holds in its history multiple stories all waiting to be told.

SIXTEEN ARTISTS.
SIXTEEN SITES.
SIXTEEN STORIES.

Artists and Sites

Site 1: Tramway by GEOFFREY RICARDO

Site 2: Campfires by KAREN CASEY

Site 3: Port of Lorne by STEVENS VAUGHN

Site 4: The Golden Mile by ROBERT HAGUE

Site 5: The Ocean Road by RYAN F KENNEDY

Site 6: First People by MAREE CLARKE

Site 7: The Point by SIMON BUTTONSHAW

Site 8: Fig Tree by CLAYTON BLAKE

Site 9: The Flat by ALEXANDER KNOX

Site 10: By the seaside by GUNTHER KOPIETZ

Site 11: Wild Colonial by DEBORAH HALPERN

Site 12: Erskine House by LAINE HOGARTY

Site 13: Shipwrecks by GRAEME ALTMANN

Site 14: Golden Cypress by DAVID MCKENZIE AND ROSS DIMSEY

Site 15: Tea Trees by CARMEL WALLACE

Site 16: The Estuary by SIMON NORMAND

Awards

KEN SCARLETT AWARD $3,000
Winner: Edward Coleridge
The Spirit of Place
'The Spirit of Place'

SMALL SCULPTURE AWARD $5,000
Winner: Augustine Dall-Ava
Paradox no.4
'Paradox no. 4'

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD $3,000
Winner: Gunther Kopietz
By the Seaside
'By the seaside'

SCULPTURESCAPE AWARD $5,000
Winner: Lauren Simmonds
Aster
'Aster'

Biennale Plus

Biennale Plus introduced a program of events that included artistic performances by some of our 16 precinct artists, as well as several invited sculpture and performance artists.

Three additional artists Domenico De Clario, Darren McGinn and Pattie Beerens also produced work featuring performance, participation and unique experiences for visitors to the Biennale.

SculptureSCAPE

Over two weekends 8 artists (4 each weekend) installed an ephemeral sculptural work along the foreshore at the Erskine River end of Lorne Beach responding to the theme of Spirit of Place.

Kate Vivian, Mother. Earth. 2022

Lauren Simmonds, Aster, 2022 - 2022 AWARD WINNER

Lesley Walsh, Nature’s Signal, 2022

Malvika Satelkar, Free Falling, 2022

Marynes Avila, Exoskeleton, 2022

Peter Day, Waterhaul, 2022

Troy Innocent, Signal. Play. Pattern. 2022

Yandell Walton, Deadline 2022