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TheHelen Lempriere National Sculpture Award at Werribee Park was an Australian prize forsculpture, awarded from 2000 until 2008. It was named in honour of artistHelen Lempriere. From 2010, theHelen Lempriere Scholarship was awarded to three recipients selected in theSculpture by the Sea inSydney.
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award at Werribee Park was instituted in 2000. It provided a total ofA$145,000 in prizes to award recipients each year, making it Australia's most financially rewarding prize for sculpture.[1]
An exhibition of the finalists was held each year in the grounds ofWerribee Park,Werribee,Victoria. The award was acquisitive, and winners were brought into the collection displayed along the Sculpture Walk at Werribee Park. The local government authority,Wyndham City Council, would also purchase works for deployment assculptural installations in the municipality.[2]
In 2009, the award was withheld when a new selection process for finalists (a change from application to invitation) resulted in whatThe Age newspaper called "a disaster", when an insufficient number of entries of good standard led to the withholding of the exhibition and award for that year.[3]
The trustees of the Helen Lempriere Bequest, Perpetual Private Wealth, announced in December 2009 that the award would no longer be made.[4] Rather than being organised under its own auspices at Werribee Park, the award would instead be absorbed into the Sydney-basedSculpture by the Sea award.
On 23 December 2009, David Knowles of Perpetual Private Wealth announced that the new manager of the Lempriere award would be theSculpture by the Sea organisation,[7] and that in 2010, the award would comprise threeA$30,000 scholarships for sculptors.[citation needed]