Breaking News …
The NAB WA Sculptor Scholarship, for a Western Australian artist exhibiting at the Sculpture by the Sea, was announced this morning at 11am on Cottesloe Beach. The winner receives $15,000 to help them transition to the next stage of their career, along with an invitation to exhibit in Bondi. And the winner is ….
Paul Caporn for his entry entitled Dump – ‘Overloading a system eventually leads to its failure.’
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This is the second time Paul has entered the competition. His work was also on show in 2010 at Cottesloe and Bondi.
Delighted with the win Paul said it took him ‘six to eight weeks to make it, with the help of others’, and that it’s made of high-density styrene, sand and EVA foam ‘kids puzzle mats’. His inspiration was naturally mining, the industry that seems to have taken over the WA pysche over the past few years, and his two boys.
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Paul Caporn Royden D’Vaz (State Manager, nabBroker WA)
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Paul’s exhibit breaks down into three sections which was handy when bringing it to the site. Anyone taking the route from Bassendean to Cottesloe earlier in the week would have had a sneak peak as it was transported to Cottesloe on the back of a truck. It left me pondering …
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How big is Pauls shed?
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How big is the sandcastle he and his boys are planning to build, and can I move in?
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Do boys ever grow out of their Tonka toys?
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And incase like me you wanted to know …yes Paul did drive the truck that transported his truck, if you know what I mean, a truck on top of a truck ….big boy heaven.
More Sculpture by the Sea to come.
4 Comments
Great sculpture and good piece. Well done.
Thanks heaps Chris. There will be more sculptures to come, there’s been so much happening in Perth this month my notebook is full I just need more time 🙂
You’ll get there. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Chris,38 degrees this week so perfect weather to be sitting still in front of the computer 🙂