Sculpture on the Gulf

Detail from Shannon Novak's Medley Part I – XIII exhibited in Sculpture on the Gulf 2015

Sculpture on the Gulf is a temporary outdoor art exhibition on a coastal headland on Matiatia Bay, Waiheke Island, New Zealand.[1][2] It is a biennial event founded in 2003 by the Waiheke Community Art Gallery.[3]

History and format

At the first event in 2003, there were two awards made: a "People’s Choice" and a "Premier" award. At artists' request the Premier award was discontinued in 2005 and a fee to each artist paid instead. A Premier award was reinstated in 2013 and 2015, but at the request of artists abandoned in 2017.[4]

By 2009 the exhibition took place over three, rather than two weeks, and included a programme for schools.[citation needed]

Sculpture on the Gulf resumed in March 2022 after a break due to COVID restrictions.[5] [6]

"Waiheke Island’s biennial Sculpture on the Gulf exhibition charts [New Zealand's] own rising interest in outdoor sculpture trails. In 2003, the first year it was held, the event attracted 12,000. Numbers attending rose to 32,000 in 2011, and 40,000 in 2017."[7]

Many notable New Zealand artists have exhibited, over the years, in the biennial event, their works displayed along a 2 kilometre track that runs around Te Whetumatarau Point.[8] Exhibiting artists have included Paul Dibble, Leon van den Eijkel, Phil Price, Brit Bunkley, Neil Dawson, Fatu Feu'u, Peter Nicholls, Terry Stringer, Paratene Matchitt, Peter Lange, Denis O’Connor, Graham Bennett, Gill Gatfield, Veronica Herber, Regan Gentry, Konstantin Dimopoulos, Suji Park, Ioane Ioane, Tiffany Singh, Brett Graham, Sriwhana Spong and Chris Bailey.[citation needed]

Events

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Year Date Curators Artists Notes
2003 24 January to 9 February
  • Tim Walker (Selection Judge)
  • Greg Burke (Selection Judge)[9]
 The first exhibition of 27 art installations in what would become a major New Zealand biennial art event was held on a 2.5 km trail.
2005 28 January to 13 February
  • Jackie O'Brien (Artistic Director) [10]
  • Lara Strongman (Curator)
  • Lisa Reihana (Curator)
  • Chris Saines (Curator) [11]
 25 art installations
2007 26 January – 11 February[12][13] 26 site responsive installations
2009 23 January and 15 February 2009
  • Graham Bennett
  • Tony Bond
  • Lucy Bucknall
  • Paul Cullen
  • Charlotte Fisher
  • Graham Fletcher
  • Gill Gatfield
  • Chris Hargreaves
  • Robert Jahnke
  • Gaye Jurisich
  • Meiling Lee
  • Nic Moon
  • Stephen Mulqueen
  • Kazu Nakagawa
  • Christian Nicolson
  • Louise Palmer
  • Louise Purvis
  • Paul Radford
  • Pauline Rhodes
  • Brydee Rood
  • Graham Snowden
  • Serene Thain
  • Jeff Thomson
  • Fletcher Vaughan
  • Leon van den Eijkel
  • Richard Wedekind
 26 site responsive installations
2011 28 January to 20 February 2011 Juliet Monaghan (Director )[15] [16] 40 site responsive installations
2013 25 January – 17 February
  • Nansi Thompson (Artistic director)
  • John Gow (Chair)
  • Sue Gardiner
  • Lara Strongman
  • Rhana Devenport (Judge)
 30 site responsive installations. Ranked in the New York Times’ Top 46 places to go in the world. [18] 45,000 people visited the exhibition. [19]
  • Lexus Premier Award: Prize $20,000: Pavilion Structure by Gregor Kregar.
  • Fuller's People's Choice Award: Prize $10,000. Pavilion Structure by Gregor Kregar. [20]
  • Two Westpac/Gen-i Merit Awards: Prize $10,000 each: Catwalk by Kazu Nakagawa. Field Notes by Carolyn Williams.
  • Parsons Brinckerhoff Award for Engineering Excellence: Prize $5,000: Portrait of Traction and Transmission by David McCracken [19]
2015 23 January – 15 February

Jackie O’Brien (Artistic coordinator)

  • Kate Darrow
  • Sue Gardiner
  • Karl Chitham
  • Derrick Cherrie (Judge)[21] [22]
 * Nigel Jamieson and Imersia Ltd
  • Christian Nicolson
  • Shannon Novak
  • James Wright
  • Denis O’Connor
  • John Hurrell
  • Matt Ellwood
  • Scott Eady
  • Robert Jahnke and Joshua Campbell
  • Elin&Keino
  • Virginia King
  • Richard Maloy
  • Stuart Bridson
  • Veronica Herber
  • Audrey Boyle
  • Xin Cheng and Chris Berthelsen
  • Brydee Rood
  • Tony Bond
  • Anah Dunsheath
  • Tania Patterson
  • Angus Muir and Alexandra Heaney
  • Cushla Donaldson
  • Sharonagh Montrose and Helen Bowater
  • Suji Park
  • Seung Yul Oh
  • Paul Radford
  • Jane and Mario Downes
  • Jeff Thomson
  • Ioane Ioane
  • David McCracken
  • Lonnie Hutchinson[23]
 31 site responsive installations
  • Lexus Premier Award: Prize $30,000: The Precariats by Cushla Donaldson. [24]
  • Fuller's People's Choice Award: Prize $10,000.Target by James Wright. [25]
2017 27 January – 19 February 2017
  • Zara Stanhope
  • Linda Chalmers
  • Blair French (Director Curatorial and Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia)
  • Bruce Phillips (Senior Curator, Te Tuhi)
  • Kelly Carmichael[26][27]
 34 site responsive installations
  • Invited Artist: George Rickey: Three Squares Gyratory, Variation 2 (1971)
  • Invited Architects: The Gateway: Designers: Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson. Originally commissioned as the New Zealand entry for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012 but unrealised.[29][30][31][32]
  • Fuller's People's Choice Award: Phantom Fleet by Virginia King.[33]
  • Exhibiting artists: [34][35]
2019 1 – 24 March
  • Reuben Friend
  • Jackie O’Brien [36]
  • Dr Zara Stanhope, Abby Cunnane, Melanie Oliver (Other curators involved)[37] [38] [39]
  • Jon Hall
  • James Wright
  • Virginia King
  • Brit Bunkley and Andrea Gardner
  • Sally Smith
  • Robert Jahnke
  • Phil Price
  • Shannon Novak
  • Natalie Guy
  • Shelley Simpson
  • Ngahina Hohaia
  • Sharonagh Montrose
  • Tyler Jackson
  • Leon van den Eijkel
  • Kazu Nakagawa
  • Anton Forde
  • James Russell
  • Kereama Taepa
  • David McCracken
  • Tim Barlow
  • Mandy Cherry Joass
  • Kauri Hawkins
  • Brydee Rood
  • Chris Bailey
  • Euan Lockie
  • Jeff Thomson
  • Jae Kang
  • Elliot Collins
 28 site responsive installations[40]
2022 4 - 27 March
  • Nigel Borell
  • Rachel Yates
  • Dr Kriselle Baker
  • Fiona Blanchard
  • Melissa Laing
  • Kereama Taeapa
  • Jonas Raw
  • Tyler Jackson
  • Aiko Groot
  • Denis O'Connor
  • Louise McCrae
  • Lang Ea
  • Brit Bunkley
  • Andrea Gardner
  • Jorge Wright
  • Ioane Ioane
  • Johl Dwyer
  • Julie Moselen
  • Margaret Feeney
  • Sally Smith
  • Natalie Guy
  • Chris Moore
  • Francisco Carbajal
  • Janine Williams
  • Virginia Leonard
  • Te Rongo Kirkwood
  • Martin Basher
  • James Cousins
  • Wanda Gillespie
  • Kazu Nakagawa
  • Salome Tanuvasa
  • Anton Forde
  • Debbie Fish
  • Jane Downes
 30 site responsive installations.
  • Work by Jane and Mario Downes, Sculpture on the Gulf 2015
    Work by Jane and Mario Downes, Sculpture on the Gulf 2015
  • Detail from Paul Radford's Sculpture Walk, exhibited in Sculpture on the Gulf 2015
    Detail from Paul Radford's Sculpture Walk, exhibited in Sculpture on the Gulf 2015
  • 'The Gateway' by Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson
    'The Gateway' by Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson
  • The Pool by Natalie Guy, Sculpture on the Gulf 2019
    The Pool by Natalie Guy, Sculpture on the Gulf 2019
  • Ground Zero by Professor Robert Jahnke, Sculpture on the Gulf 2019
    Ground Zero by Professor Robert Jahnke, Sculpture on the Gulf 2019
  • Liberace by Phil Price won the Fullers 360 Experiences People's Choice Award at Sculpture on the Gulf 2019
    Liberace by Phil Price won the Fullers 360 Experiences People's Choice Award at Sculpture on the Gulf 2019
  • Kazu Nakagawa and Pacific Environments Architects work 'Kaemue Kaemuri' exhibited in Sculpture on the Gulf 2015
    Kazu Nakagawa and Pacific Environments Architects work 'Kaemue Kaemuri' exhibited in Sculpture on the Gulf 2015

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