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Monash lecturer wins Contempora Sculpture Award

26 March 2008

Waterfront will be exhibited during Contempora 2 Festival of Sculpture, an outdoor exhibition of sculpture to be displayed at Docklands until 20 April 2008.

The prestigious 2008 Contempora Sculpture Award has been won by Melbourne artist and Monash University lecturer Dr Dan Wollmering.

Dr Wollmering's work Waterfront is a sculpture that references the waterfront dispute that took place on docks around Australia in 1998.  The work commemorates the tenth anniversary of one of the largest and most significant industrial disputes in recent history.

Around 200 guests attended the awards night earlier this month.

"It is a wonderful honour to win such a prestigious award. Waterfront has been an exciting project. The work is constructed in durable materials that include stainless and galvanized steel, treated pine, hardwood, marine plywood, steel mesh and anodized etched aluminium," Dr Wollmering said.

"At a height of two metres the sculpture has a positive presence that suggests action, empowerment and triumph."

Dr Wollmering immigrated to Australia in 1975 from Minnesota, United States of America.

In the last thirty years he has exhibited his work in 24 solo exhibitions and 45 group exhibitions.

He is a senior lecturer in sculpture and coordinator of research in the Department of Fine Arts.