The Australia Tapestry Workshop has revealed the finalists of the 2021 Tapestry Design Prize for Architects.
Now in its fourth iteration, the prize invited architects from around the world to design a hypothetical tapestry for one of three sites within Phoenix Central Park designed by Durbach Block Jaggers and John Wardle Architects.
The prize received 141 submission from 23 countries and 15 submissions have been shortlisted by the jury:
21:05:35 time that is moved by little fidget cells is now our time… – Multiplicity, in conjunction with Zoe Frazzetto (Australia, Contributors: Sioux Clark, Zoe Frazzetto, Ellen Kwek and Shayne Lacy)
A New Beginning to an Old End – Studio KaaKi (Australia, Contributors: Kristian Kaufmehl and Caroline Kite)
A paradigm shift – Abhinay H Satam and Shristi D Rawat (India)
Afternoon Performance of the Centennial Park Fruit Bats – Connected Dots Studio (Sweden, Contributors: Sebastian Gatz and Nicole Miller)
Apocalypse – Michael Chapman (Australia)
Flag 2 – Catherine Roden and Stephen Brameld (Australia)
Formwork Tartan – Nicholas Bucci (Australia)
Note to Architect – Original Field of Architecture and Art Bunker (UK and Australia,
Contributors: Andrew Dawson, Joelle Darby, and Francesco Miniati of Original Field of Architecture, Ian Friend and Robyn Daw of Art Bunker)
Pattern Recognition – Studio WW (Australia)
Post-script on the Society of Spectacle – Amaia Sanchez-Velasco and Jorge Valiente Oriol (Australia)
The ceiling that walked out of the door – Anthony El Khoury (Lebanon)
The Idea – Ana Mircetic-Velickovic (Serbia)
This Place – Madeleine Gallagher, Julie Lee, Georgina de Beaujeu and Lis de Vries (Australia)
Time Shouts – Ground Under Repair (Australia, Contributors: Emma Jackson, Eilidh Ross, Riley Pelham-Thorman and Abigail Li Shin Liew)
World warp and woof: Understand the space between weaving – Hamidreza Majnooni, Samaneh Khatamirad and Maryam Khatamirad (Iran and Australia)
The entries were judged by a panel comprising Cameron Bruhn (dean and head of the architecture school at the University of Queensland), Diane Jones (executive director of PTW Architects), Valerie Kirk (artist and tapestry weaver), Dimmity Walker (director of Spaceagency Architects), John Wardle (founder of John Wardle Architects) and Brook Andrew (interdisciplinary artist).
The winner will be announced in a special virtual event on 26 August. An exhibition of the finalists’ designs will be held at the Australian Tapestry Workshop from 26 August to 12 November 2021.
