Sculpture at Sawmillers
Current Exhibition
8 to 17 October 2021
Sculpture at Sawmillers exhibition will be open to the public from 8 to 17 October 2021. The exhibition will be officially opened at 3pm on Saturday 9 October by Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC, the Governor of New South Wales.
Sculpture at Sawmillers is a McMahons Point community initiative supported by North Sydney Council. The exhibition is co-ordinated by Cultural Management Consultant, Elsa Atkin AM, the initiator of Sculpture at Sawmillers.
A $30,000 non-acquisitive prize, sponsored by the Neilson Foundation, will be awarded, and other smaller prizes including a People’s Choice Prize of $3,000, sponsored by Zurich, and an Emerging Sculptor Prize of $2,500.
Find out what some of our past participants and supporters have to say…
Thanks Elsa for doing it again – I am sure it will be a great success. Chris Hodges is delighted and will enter this year.
Amazing. Well done. I might make a new work! That would be exciting.
I was so pleased to hear that you’re bringing back Sculpture at Sawmillers later this year! It’s such an amazing event and you do a brilliant job! I have fond memories of wandering past the sculptures most afternoons during the exhibition.
Exciting stuff – thanks Elsa!
What fantastic news to wake up to this morning.
Great News – Congratulations. I look forward participating again.
Sculpture at Sawmillers: Call for Entries
Sculptors are invited to participate in Sculpture at Sawmillers in October 2021. A non-acquisitive Sculpture at Sawmillers Prize of $30,000, and other prizes will be awarded.
Sculpture at Sawmillers Poetry Prizes awarded
We’re proud to publish the winners of the Sculpture at Sawmillers 2016 Poetry Prizes, which was announced on 24 September. Congratulations Elizabeth Holland and Stephen House!
People’s Choice Winner Announced
The Sculpture at Sawmillers 2016 People’s Choice Prize of $3,000, sponsored by the Family of the Late Michael Tribe, was awarded to Jane Dawson for her sculpture, ‘Emu’.
About Sawmillers Reserve
A gem in Sydney’s northern suburb of McMahons Point, Sawmillers Reserve features a winding footpath scattered with tall trees and the remnants of a historic sawmill as it leads visitors to its stunning views of the harbour. A shipwreck situated just off the sandstone wall at the water’s edge also illustrates the reserve’s former days.
Operated by timber merchants, John W Eaton Ltd, the timber yard flourished between the 1890s and 1920s. The company had its own power house, two sawmills, engineers shop, joinery shop, a blacksmiths shop and its own wharf and crane to unload and offload timber from smaller vessels.
The Eatons Sawmill is now the only surviving example of a major waterfront timber yard of the 19th century on Sydney’s north shore.
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