SOLO award 2013
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Winner: Laura Fitzgerald
2013 winner Laura Fitzgerald's SOLO exhibition 'Work Based Anxieties' was held at WW Gallery in January 2014. (read press release: PDF version or WORD version), the winner also received prize money of £1000. In February 2014, Fitzgerald's work was also included in 'Please Stand By', a night of artists' films at the Chisenhale. Later in 2014, she was in a group show in Ireland: Re-framing the Domestic (http://www.highlanes.ie/Activity.aspx?ActivityID=234) and participated in a group show at ISCP in New York in June 2014 (http://www.iscp-nyc.org). Congratulations also to the other shortlisted artists: HARRIET ASTON / DONALD HARDING / DANIELLA NORTON / CONNIE SIDES / RACHEL WILBERFORCE and to KIRSTY HARRIS, whose work 'Able' won the visitors' vote. Thank you once again to our 4 judges: Alison Wilding, Charlotte Mullins, Ceri Hand, Gill Saunders.
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Laura Fitzgerald
stills from the film 'Work Based Anxieties;
Click link to view Work Based Anxieties on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/87110097
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SOLO AWARD WINNER 2013Laura Fitzgerald
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RUNNERS UPHarriet Aston
Donald Harding Daniella Norton Connie Sides Rachel Wilberforce |
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VISITORS' VOTEKirsty Harris
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SELECTED ARTISTSTrevor Banthorpe
Maria Konstanse Bruun Clare Burnett Zoe Crosse Nigel Grimmer Kirsty Harris Nikolai Ishchuk HaYoung Kim Bryan Lavelle Amy Moffat Taz Pollard Michael Radford Anna Reading Yuhwa Son Sophia Starling Claire Undy Nicola Wallis Kim W. Wilson Sarah Kate Wilson Ben Woodeson |
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Judges 2013
Alison Wilding / Charlotte Mullins / Ceri Hand / Gill Saunders
Alison Wilding
Turner Prize-nominated sculptor Alison Wilding rose to prominence in the early 1980s. Wilding's first major solo exhibition was held at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1985, her first international solo show was held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1987 and a major retrospective ‘Alison Wilding: Immersion – Sculpture from Ten Years' was held at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool in 1991. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1992, received a Henry Moore Fellowship for The British School at Rome in 1998 and was elected RA in 1999. Her public sculpture commissions include the installation of Ambit, River Wear, Sunderland in 1999. Alison Wilding lives and works in London, is represented by Karsten Schubert and exhibits extensively throughout the world in solo and group shows. Collections include Tate Britain, British Council, Arts Council, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Scottish National Gallery, Leeds City Art Gallery, Henry Moore Institute.
Charlotte Mullins
Charlotte Mullins is an art historian, writer and broadcaster. She is the editor of Art Quarterly, the magazine of the Art Fund, and oversaw the magazine's recent redesign following her appointment in summer 2012. A former editor of Art Review and V&A Magazine, she has written ten books on visual art including Painting People (Thames & Hudson, 2006, an investigation into contemporary figuration), and a monograph on Rachel Whiteread (Tate Publishing, 2004). She is a regular contributor to Front Row on Radio 4 and writes for a range of national newspapers and specialist titles. In 2009 she was a judge for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Ceri Hand
Initially trained as an artist, Ceri Hand draws on over twenty years in the art world, having previously acted as Director of Metal (Liverpool), Director of Exhibitions, FACT (Liverpool, where she was a contributing curator to Liverpool Biennial in 2004 and 2006), Deputy Director of Grizedale Arts, Cumbria and Director of Make, London. Exhibitions curated during the Liverpool period include artists Yang Fudong, Jill Magid, Vito Acconci, Chen Chieh-jen, Walid Raad/The Atlas Group, Christian Jankowski, Matthew Buckingham, and The Black Audio Film Collective. She established Ceri Hand Gallery in Liverpool in 2008 and has recently relocated the gallery to London. She has been on the boards of a number of organisations in the UK (including Malgras Naudet, Eastside Projects, Open Eye Gallery and Tate Members Committee) and a judge for numerous panels.
Gill Saunders
Gill Saunders is a Senior Curator in the Word & Image Dept at the Victoria & Albert Museum, specialising in 20th-century and contemporary
prints and drawings. Her most recent projects include an exhibition of prints by Street Artists which went to Libya in the spring of 2012, and
Recording Britain, an exhibition of watercolours, drawings and photographs, at the V&A. She is currently writing a book about prints and posters by artists from Africa and the African diaspora.
Alison Wilding
Turner Prize-nominated sculptor Alison Wilding rose to prominence in the early 1980s. Wilding's first major solo exhibition was held at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1985, her first international solo show was held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1987 and a major retrospective ‘Alison Wilding: Immersion – Sculpture from Ten Years' was held at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool in 1991. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1992, received a Henry Moore Fellowship for The British School at Rome in 1998 and was elected RA in 1999. Her public sculpture commissions include the installation of Ambit, River Wear, Sunderland in 1999. Alison Wilding lives and works in London, is represented by Karsten Schubert and exhibits extensively throughout the world in solo and group shows. Collections include Tate Britain, British Council, Arts Council, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Scottish National Gallery, Leeds City Art Gallery, Henry Moore Institute.
Charlotte Mullins
Charlotte Mullins is an art historian, writer and broadcaster. She is the editor of Art Quarterly, the magazine of the Art Fund, and oversaw the magazine's recent redesign following her appointment in summer 2012. A former editor of Art Review and V&A Magazine, she has written ten books on visual art including Painting People (Thames & Hudson, 2006, an investigation into contemporary figuration), and a monograph on Rachel Whiteread (Tate Publishing, 2004). She is a regular contributor to Front Row on Radio 4 and writes for a range of national newspapers and specialist titles. In 2009 she was a judge for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Ceri Hand
Initially trained as an artist, Ceri Hand draws on over twenty years in the art world, having previously acted as Director of Metal (Liverpool), Director of Exhibitions, FACT (Liverpool, where she was a contributing curator to Liverpool Biennial in 2004 and 2006), Deputy Director of Grizedale Arts, Cumbria and Director of Make, London. Exhibitions curated during the Liverpool period include artists Yang Fudong, Jill Magid, Vito Acconci, Chen Chieh-jen, Walid Raad/The Atlas Group, Christian Jankowski, Matthew Buckingham, and The Black Audio Film Collective. She established Ceri Hand Gallery in Liverpool in 2008 and has recently relocated the gallery to London. She has been on the boards of a number of organisations in the UK (including Malgras Naudet, Eastside Projects, Open Eye Gallery and Tate Members Committee) and a judge for numerous panels.
Gill Saunders
Gill Saunders is a Senior Curator in the Word & Image Dept at the Victoria & Albert Museum, specialising in 20th-century and contemporary
prints and drawings. Her most recent projects include an exhibition of prints by Street Artists which went to Libya in the spring of 2012, and
Recording Britain, an exhibition of watercolours, drawings and photographs, at the V&A. She is currently writing a book about prints and posters by artists from Africa and the African diaspora.