inside out

The Woolahra Small Sculpture Prize is a highly prestigous national & international competiton with a high profile within the Arts community & the public domain. In its 10th yr, this prize has attracted & exhibited some of the most import artists working in the field of sculpture. In 2010 it attracted over 520 national and international applicants. Simon Perry's work 'Inside out' was selected as one of the 43 finalists artworks to be exhibited at the Woolahra municipal council gallery,NSW. The prize was selcted & judged by a extremely prestigous panel which included, John Kaldor AM, Kaldor Projects & member International council of MOMA, New York & Tate Modern London. Monica McMahon Art Curator at UWS & Glen Barkley,Curator of the Museum of contemporay Art, Sydney. The shortlisted exhibition featured a number high profile australian artists including Kathy Temin, Mike Nichols, Julia de Ville and Kenzee Patterson. The art work 'inside out' is an action research project seeking to investigate the relationship between material /sculptural qualities in objects & there ability to elicit cretain kinds of cemical responses in the brain/s of a viewer/audience. The object is reminisent of folding surfaces found in natural and cultural phenomena such as human and animal bodies, botanical forms, geological formations, viscous fluids, & other folding materials. This is original research and represents the beginning of a project which will investigate new questions relating to the relationship between the plastic nature of materiality & the formation & functioning of the brain.