Great news!
Marté’s entry, Contained and Protected, won the Sculpture in the Gardens 2019 McConnell Family Supreme Award on Saturday 16 November.
Congratulations also to Chris Moore for winning the Friends Acquisition Award for his work ‘Entwined’.
The judges praised her work Contained and Protected for demonstrating superior skills of craftsmanship as its expressed her concerns for the fragility of nature and humanity’s abuse of it. They said:
“This beautiful disk, fastened to its base by a bronze cord, acts as a talisman of guardianship in the garden bed of critically endangered native plants. It is a superb and accomplished linking of form to site, evoking both the preciousness of our botanical heritage and the idea of keeping safe forever.”
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