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SOLO award 2016
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Winner: Victoria Lucas
Chiara Williams Contemporary Art took over directorship of the SOLO Award™ in 2016 and presented winner Victoria Lucas's project Lay of the Land (and other such myths) at the London Art Fair 2017 (17-22 January). The winner also received prize money of £2000. Read more... The Selection Panel 2016 were: Gordon Cheung (Painter) Francesco Pantaleone (Director FPAC, Palermo, Italy) Sarah Monk (Director London Art Fair) Chiara Williams (chair) (Dir. WW Contemporary Art) |
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Press coverage
An interview with Victoria Lucas is available on Art Attack (posted 22 June 2016), together with a curated collection of Victoria's work on the Art Attack app's Curated Art page. To view, download the FREE app: search ‘ArtAttack - Share Sell Network’ on App Store.
The fantastic Art Attack have been blogging about the SOLO award since meeting last year's winner at the London Art Fair last January.
You can also check out their blogs about the longlist here and the Shortlist here, plus a special ‘Curated Collection’ of the 2016 shortlisted artists went live on the Art Attach app in May 2016.
The fantastic Art Attack have been blogging about the SOLO award since meeting last year's winner at the London Art Fair last January.
You can also check out their blogs about the longlist here and the Shortlist here, plus a special ‘Curated Collection’ of the 2016 shortlisted artists went live on the Art Attach app in May 2016.
More about the 2016 SOLO Award
The winner, highly commended artists, 17 shortlisted artists and 63 longlisted artists were chosen from over 2850 images and multimedia works, from over 570 artists. A small selection of images by the shortlisted artists can be found below. Please note, these are representative images, sometimes of video or performance artists. For more information, please visit the individual artists' websites.
SOLO AWARD WINNER 2016
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"I am extremely happy to have been selected as this year’s SOLO Award winner. The award marks a 10 year milestone in my career as a practicing arts professional, and I am looking forward to working with WW Gallery and Mark Devereux Projects to realise my proposed project at the London Art Fair over the coming months."
– Victoria Lucas Victoria is represented by Mark Devereux Projects. WW is looking forward to working with Victoria and Mark over the next few months in preparation for her solo show at the London Art Fair in January 2017. An interview with Victoria Lucas is available on Art Attack, together with a curated collection of Victoria's work on the Art Attack app's Curated Art page. For the next two weeks Victoria will be working on a research paper for the Overwhelming Imagination: Achieving and Undermining Contradictions International Art Conference, taking place at the Si Shang Art Museum in Beijing, China. Her paper is entitled Islands, Micro-nations and Sanctuaries: Escapism, Subversion and Liberation and will be presented as part of the Global Politics panel on the 4th July 2016. The paper directly links to the Lay of the land (and other such myths) project, which formed part of her winning SOLO Award application. Other current exhibitions include screenings of her National Portrait Gallery commissioned film Conflict (2014) as part of three different B#SIDE WAR events / exhibitions in May to July 2016 in Italy. |
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HIGHLY COMMENDED
LONGLISTED ARTISTS
in alphabetical order
- Seyyed Sadegh Aleahmad
- Neil Ayling
- Catherine Baker
- Olivia Bax
- Victoria Burgher
- Rebecca Byrne
- Manuel Caldeira
- Bruno Castro Santos
- Tadao Cern
- Ezio Cicciarella
- Alicja Dobrucka
- James Epps
- Damien Flood
- Pat Flynn
- Lorraine Fossi
- Seán Guinan
- Genuardi / Ruta
- Ian Healy
- Adam Hennessey
- Noel Hensey
- Gillian Hyland
- Andrea Just & Neus Ledesma
- Elisavet Kalpaxi
- Simon Keenleyside
- Hun Kyu Kim
- Karima Klasen
- Agnieszka Kozlowska
- Soyoon Lee
- Sun Ju Lee
- Rosalind Lemoh
- Woo Jae Lim
- Victoria Lucas
- Katharina Maderthaner
- Karolina Magnusson Murray
- Antonio Marguet
- Enzo Marra
- Scott Massey
- James Metsoja
- Holly Muir
- Margaret Noble
- Liam O'Connor
- Ana Pais Oliveira
- Nuala O'Sullivan
- Jinyong Park
- Milly Peck
- Mike Pelletier
- Milan Rai
- Irmina Rusicka
- Serdar Seven
- Alexandra Simpson
- Emanuel Strässle
- David Temchulla
- Giovanni Termini
- Fabian Treiber
- Sabina Tupan
- Tom Verity
- Sonja Vordermaier
- Relli De Vries
- Ziling Wang
- Christina West
- Lewk Wilmshurst
- Mary Wintour
- Farniyaz Zaker
2016 Selection Panel
- Gordon Cheung (Painter)
- Francesco Pantaleone (Director FPAC, Palermo, Italy)
- Sarah Monk (Director London Art Fair)
- Chiara Williams (chair) (Dir. WW Contemporary Art)
