Sculpture Award Winner - North Sydney Art Prize

My beeswax installation Within and without has been awarded the 2017 North Sydney Art Prize  $10,000 Sculpture Award! 
I'm proud to be part of this year's all female line up of winners, in the Coal Loader's underground chambers and tunnels, with Janet Tavener, Denese Oates and Gloria Florez
Thank you to the curator Alison Clark; the judges - Cassandra Hard Lawrie, Monica McMahon and Oliver Watts; arts officer Lisa Sammut; North Sydney Council and the prize sponsors... and to my lovely friends who cheered so loudly at the award announcements! 


North Sydney Art Prize: 11-26 March 2017
The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability 
2 Balls Head Road, Waverton NSW
Artist talks Saturday 25 March 11am (more info link)
Download exhibition catalogue here


Kath Fries, Within and without, 2017, beeswax and oyster mushroom mycelium (detail view with sign), installed in chamber three, tunnel two at The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability.
Kath Fries, Within and without, 2017, beeswax and oyster mushroom mycelium, installed in chamber three, tunnel two at The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Waverton NSW. 
Kath Fries, Within and without, 2017, beeswax and oyster mushroom mycelium, installed in chamber three, tunnel two at The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Waverton NSW. 
Kath Fries, Within and without, 2017, beeswax and oyster mushroom mycelium, installed in chamber three, tunnel two at The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Waverton NSW. 
Kath Fries, Within and without, 2017, beeswax and oyster mushroom mycelium (detail view), installed in chamber three, tunnel two at The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Waverton NSW. 
Kath Fries, Within and without, 2017, beeswax and oyster mushroom mycelium (detail view), installed in chamber three, tunnel two at The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability. 
Kath Fries, Within and without, 2017, beeswax and oyster mushroom mycelium (detail view), installed in chamber three, tunnel two at The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability. 
Kath Fries, Within and without, 2017, beeswax and oyster mushroom mycelium, installed in chamber three, tunnel two at The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Waverton NSW.
Kath Fries, Within and without, 2017, beeswax and oyster mushroom mycelium, installed in chamber three, tunnel two at The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Waverton NSW.
Kath Fries, Within and without, 2017, beeswax and oyster mushroom mycelium, installed in chamber three, tunnel two at The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Waverton NSW.