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SOLO award 2014
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Winner: Amba Sayal-Bennett
2014 winner Amba Sayal-Bennett's SOLO exhibition was presented in Art Projects at the London Art Fair in January 2015. She also received prize money of £1000. Click here to view the press release. Since then, Amba has continued to exhibit widely, including at the Saatchi Gallery, London: UK/raine: Emerging Artists From the UK and Ukraine, 24th November - 3rd January 2016, together with 2015 SOLO Award winner Kyung Hwa Shon. The 2014 Judges were: Kate Brindley (director mima/Arnolfini), Cherry Smyth (critic, curator, writer), Lisa Milroy (painter), Sarah Monk (director London Art Fair). For more information about the SOLO Award and how to apply, please visit the SOLO award home page. |
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Press coverage for Amba Sayal-Bennett at London Art Fair
Cajsa Carlson on Cool Hunting:
"Part of the fun of the London Art Fair, an annual showcase for modern and contemporary British art, is discovering emerging artists. The Art Projects section of the show is where you’ll find new names from all around the world, as well as homegrown talent. One of our favorites this year was Amba Sayal-Bennett, whose graphic, geometric illustrations and "three-dimensional" drawings have already received a fair share of buzz—she was this year’s winner of the SOLO Award, and has works in the Saatchi Gallery and the Ashmolean Museum. We had a chat with Sayal-Bennett about her mixed-media artworks, which use something as old-school as an overhead projector to create fascinating—and thoroughly modern—layered pieces."
Read full interview here: http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/interview-amba-sayalbennett
P C Robinson on Artlyst:
"WW Gallery showed an installation by Amba Sayal-Bennett, which created a Neo-Constructivist drawing/sculpture from an overhead projector and various found objects."
Read more: http://www.artlyst.com/articles/london-art-fair-closes-its-2015-edition-on-a-high-note
Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani on Artling:
"Another engaging work, in the Art Projects section, was Maugham by Amba Sayal-Bennett presented by WW Contemporary Art. Magnified structural drawings were projected on the gallery wall invading the space with light and geometry. Upon closer inspection, however, one would realize that these overwhelming architectural forms were actually made of several sketches all produced in a very small scale. The artist in her practice departs from familiar elements of everyday life and manipulates them to be reused as ‘words’ in her own visual lexicon."
Read more: http://theartling.tumblr.com/post/110806244499/decidedly-art-week-an-eye-on-the-west
Sarah Monk on How to Spend it/ FT:
With the press and preview days and evening receptions now behind us, a change of pace allows me to relish viewing London Art Fair’s huge amount of artwork in more depth. I was fortunate to be asked to join the judging panel for WW Contemporary Art’s annual SOLO Award last summer and it’s great to have winning artist Amba Sayal-Bennett now showing at the fair. There was palpable excitement among the judges when we first viewed Amba’s submission and it’s fantastic to see her projected wall here as part of our Art Projects showcase.
Read more: http://howtospendit.ft.com/style/75151-sarah-monk-day-5
Cajsa Carlson on Cool Hunting:
"Part of the fun of the London Art Fair, an annual showcase for modern and contemporary British art, is discovering emerging artists. The Art Projects section of the show is where you’ll find new names from all around the world, as well as homegrown talent. One of our favorites this year was Amba Sayal-Bennett, whose graphic, geometric illustrations and "three-dimensional" drawings have already received a fair share of buzz—she was this year’s winner of the SOLO Award, and has works in the Saatchi Gallery and the Ashmolean Museum. We had a chat with Sayal-Bennett about her mixed-media artworks, which use something as old-school as an overhead projector to create fascinating—and thoroughly modern—layered pieces."
Read full interview here: http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/interview-amba-sayalbennett
P C Robinson on Artlyst:
"WW Gallery showed an installation by Amba Sayal-Bennett, which created a Neo-Constructivist drawing/sculpture from an overhead projector and various found objects."
Read more: http://www.artlyst.com/articles/london-art-fair-closes-its-2015-edition-on-a-high-note
Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani on Artling:
"Another engaging work, in the Art Projects section, was Maugham by Amba Sayal-Bennett presented by WW Contemporary Art. Magnified structural drawings were projected on the gallery wall invading the space with light and geometry. Upon closer inspection, however, one would realize that these overwhelming architectural forms were actually made of several sketches all produced in a very small scale. The artist in her practice departs from familiar elements of everyday life and manipulates them to be reused as ‘words’ in her own visual lexicon."
Read more: http://theartling.tumblr.com/post/110806244499/decidedly-art-week-an-eye-on-the-west
Sarah Monk on How to Spend it/ FT:
With the press and preview days and evening receptions now behind us, a change of pace allows me to relish viewing London Art Fair’s huge amount of artwork in more depth. I was fortunate to be asked to join the judging panel for WW Contemporary Art’s annual SOLO Award last summer and it’s great to have winning artist Amba Sayal-Bennett now showing at the fair. There was palpable excitement among the judges when we first viewed Amba’s submission and it’s fantastic to see her projected wall here as part of our Art Projects showcase.
Read more: http://howtospendit.ft.com/style/75151-sarah-monk-day-5
More about the 2014 SOLO Award
The winner, 4 runners up and 31 other shortlisted artists were chosen from almost 600 entries in 2014, below is a presentation of their work. Please note, these are representative images, sometimes of video or performance work. For more information, please visit the individual artists' websites.
SOLO AWARD WINNER 2014 |
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RUNNERS UP |
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Judges 2014
Kate Brindley / Cherry Smyth / Lisa Milroy / Sarah Monk
Kate Brindley
The Arnolfini, Bristol is very pleased to announce the appointment of Kate Brindley as its Interim Director. She will take up post on 1 April 2014.
Kate has been the Director of mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) since July 2009 where she secured a 150% funding uplift from ACE in 2011. She is one of only four national advisors for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Arts Funding Programme and chairs their new museums and galleries initiative, “Our Museums”. From 2005-09, Kate was Director of Museums, Galleries and Archives for Bristol City Council and lead for the South West Renaissance in the Regions programme. Kate was born in Sheffield in 1970 and studied art history at Leeds University and museum and gallery studies at Manchester University. Kate has nearly 20 years experience in the visual arts and museums sector with particular experience in working with 20th century art collections and capital developments, including being Head of Arts and Museums for Wolverhampton. Kate is Vice Chair of the AV Festival North East and an Associate of the Museums Association.
Cherry Smyth
Cherry Smyth is a critic, curator, poet and novelist. She co-curated Limber: spatial painting practices with Jost Münster at the Herbert Read Gallery, 2013. Her catalogue essays include Sophy Rickett, Elizabeth Magill, Orla Barry, Zineb Sedira, Bridgid McLeer, Salla Tykka, Flora Parrott, Louisa Fairclough and Dirk Braeckman, among others. She was a visiting critic at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Castello, Spain and at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. She was a curatorial adviser for Axis, Open Frequency, 2006-7. Her latest poetry collection is Test, Orange, Pindrop Press, 2011 and her novel,Hold Still, 2013, about the role of the female muse in 19th century art, is available from Holland Park Press. www.cherrysmyth.com
Lisa Milroy
Lisa Milroy was born in Vancouver and lives and works in London. Still life is at the heart of Milroy’s practice: in the 1980s her paintings featured ordinary objects depicted against an off-white ground. Subsequently her imagery expanded to depictions of objects within settings, and landscape, architecture and people. As her approaches to still life diversified, so did her manner of painting, giving rise to a range of stylistic strategies. In recent years Milroy’s focus has been on large scale, installation-based paintings. Throughout her practice, Milroy has been fascinated by the relation between stillness and movement, and the nature of making and looking at painting. Milroy was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2005 and is currently Head of Graduate Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. She is an Artist Trustee at Tate, and her work is held in many public and private collections.
Sarah Monk
Sarah Monk is the Director of London Art Fair, having been the Fair Manager since 2004 and was responsible for launching the Fair’s highly acclaimed Art Projects section in 2005. Sarah studied Fine Art and trained as an artist before moving to London and embarking on a career which has encompassed roles in public museums and galleries including the Serpentine Gallery and prior to joining London Art Fair worked in the Public Programmes department at the Hayward Gallery. Sarah was also a member of the Strategic Advisory Group who informed ‘The Code of Practice for the Visual Arts which was commissioned by The Arts Council and a-n The Artists Information Company in 2003.
Kate Brindley
The Arnolfini, Bristol is very pleased to announce the appointment of Kate Brindley as its Interim Director. She will take up post on 1 April 2014.
Kate has been the Director of mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) since July 2009 where she secured a 150% funding uplift from ACE in 2011. She is one of only four national advisors for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Arts Funding Programme and chairs their new museums and galleries initiative, “Our Museums”. From 2005-09, Kate was Director of Museums, Galleries and Archives for Bristol City Council and lead for the South West Renaissance in the Regions programme. Kate was born in Sheffield in 1970 and studied art history at Leeds University and museum and gallery studies at Manchester University. Kate has nearly 20 years experience in the visual arts and museums sector with particular experience in working with 20th century art collections and capital developments, including being Head of Arts and Museums for Wolverhampton. Kate is Vice Chair of the AV Festival North East and an Associate of the Museums Association.
Cherry Smyth
Cherry Smyth is a critic, curator, poet and novelist. She co-curated Limber: spatial painting practices with Jost Münster at the Herbert Read Gallery, 2013. Her catalogue essays include Sophy Rickett, Elizabeth Magill, Orla Barry, Zineb Sedira, Bridgid McLeer, Salla Tykka, Flora Parrott, Louisa Fairclough and Dirk Braeckman, among others. She was a visiting critic at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Castello, Spain and at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. She was a curatorial adviser for Axis, Open Frequency, 2006-7. Her latest poetry collection is Test, Orange, Pindrop Press, 2011 and her novel,Hold Still, 2013, about the role of the female muse in 19th century art, is available from Holland Park Press. www.cherrysmyth.com
Lisa Milroy
Lisa Milroy was born in Vancouver and lives and works in London. Still life is at the heart of Milroy’s practice: in the 1980s her paintings featured ordinary objects depicted against an off-white ground. Subsequently her imagery expanded to depictions of objects within settings, and landscape, architecture and people. As her approaches to still life diversified, so did her manner of painting, giving rise to a range of stylistic strategies. In recent years Milroy’s focus has been on large scale, installation-based paintings. Throughout her practice, Milroy has been fascinated by the relation between stillness and movement, and the nature of making and looking at painting. Milroy was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2005 and is currently Head of Graduate Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. She is an Artist Trustee at Tate, and her work is held in many public and private collections.
Sarah Monk
Sarah Monk is the Director of London Art Fair, having been the Fair Manager since 2004 and was responsible for launching the Fair’s highly acclaimed Art Projects section in 2005. Sarah studied Fine Art and trained as an artist before moving to London and embarking on a career which has encompassed roles in public museums and galleries including the Serpentine Gallery and prior to joining London Art Fair worked in the Public Programmes department at the Hayward Gallery. Sarah was also a member of the Strategic Advisory Group who informed ‘The Code of Practice for the Visual Arts which was commissioned by The Arts Council and a-n The Artists Information Company in 2003.
