2011 Metropolitan winner: Chris Ormerod
Artwork: 'This Vital Arc'
SALA exhibition location: TAFE SA - Adelaide College of the Arts, 39 Light Square, Adelaide until 29 August 2011
Chris’ sculpture is a tall, free standing form connecting the land and the sky. The dynamic shape is reminiscent of lightning, of energy in a raw form. Of an arc being freshly struck. The sculpture stands 6 metres high, 2.4 metres wide and 1.5 metres deep and weighs approximately 200 kilograms.
 Sculptor Chris Ormerod and OZ Minerals Managing Director and CEO Terry Burgess.
Minister for Mineral Resources Development, the Hon. Tom Koutsantonis, sculptor
Chris Ormerod and OZ Minerals Managing Director and CEO Terry Burgess
This Vital Arc, Chris Ormerod |
  This Vital Arc, Chris Ormerod | |
2011 Regional winner: Rachel and Mark Young
Artwork: 'After the rain'
SALA exhibition location: Cultural Precinct Gallery, Roxby Downs
After the rain’ explores the delicate balance of life in South Australia’s arid region and was inspired by the environment surrounding Roxby Downs after 2010 and 2011’s abundant rain. Rachel Young, a jewellery maker and designer, along with her husband Mark who is a boilermaker by trade, has created a beautiful landscape using copper wire, sheet and rod as well as steel. In ‘After the rain’ birds formed from copper wire are in full flight across the South Australian landscape.
 After the rain - Rachel & Mark Young   After the rain - Rachel & Mark Young  Mark & Rachel Young pictured with their copper sculpture After the rain | |