Tag: Shortlisted

AIR Open 2024 Announcement

Thrilled to hear I have made the final selection of 60 artworks for the AIR Open 2024. A big thank you to the judging panel (Alan Baker, Jude Wainwright, David Gledhill and Mike Chavez-Dawson) for selecting my piece ‘Salty’ from over 1,300 pieces of work. Feeling humbled and truly honoured!

The exhibition launch will take place on Thursday 15th August at Rogue Artist Studios from 6-9pm with all welcome to attend. If you’re free then I hope to see you there!

Other artists in the line-up include:

Aimee Spilsted, Alex Aiton, Amelia Frances Wood, ANDI, Archie Leigh-Jones, Becky Moon, Bethan Hamilton, Bill Psarras, Chris Lewtas, Ciarraí MacCormac, Craig fisher, Daniel H Bell, Enxi Liu, Gareth Cairns, Hang Zhang, Helen Davies, Jay Ottewell, Julie Cassels, Justine Lesage, Kate Street, Katy Mason, Kelan Andrews, Laura Nathan, Lucy Ridges, Lucy Waters, Lois Hopwood, Luke Skiffington, Lula Braimbridge, Marc Remshaw, Marie Jones, Nicola Bolton, Nigel Grimmer, Nisaa Saeed Raja, Rachel Ackroyd, Ramon Omolaja Adeyemi, Ruby Tingle, Sam Owen Hull, Sara Hindhaugh, Simon Leahy-Clark, Steve Sutton, Tom Motley and Vincent James.

Huge congratulations to you all! I can’t wait to see your work at the show.

AWOL / Comme Ca Open 2024 – First Prize Winner

Thrilled to share the news from this evening that I am the recipient of AWOL / Comme Ca Open 2024 First Prize award. It was such a wonderful surprise! Many thanks to the selection panel and the judges Sean Williams, Ceri Morgan and Short Supply for the honour, it is greatly appreciated.

Also a big thank you to all at AWOL and Comme Ca for the seamless curation of work and making the event one to remember. Special mentions for David French, Jude Wainwright, Claire Turner and last (but by no means least), Cass Art for the fantastic goodie bags you provided to all artists, the vouchers I received as part of my prize and the opportunity to show in your Manchester gallery (can’t wait to get planning!).

Delighted for the lovely Laura Nathan too with her highly commended award! Many congratulations to her; very well deserved for her strikingly beautiful and poignant piece.

Photo appears courtesy of Jude Wainwright.

AWOL / Comme Ca 2024 Open Call Preview

A few pictures from the AWOL/Comme Ca Art Open 2024 preview. Had such a fantastic evening! Many great conversations with beautiful people amongst a gorgeous, eclectic selection of work. It must’ve been a huge challenge to narrow down the 200 odd entries to 22 artists!

 

The show is open to the public at Hope Mill from the 18th May and runs until Sat 22nd June 2024 (Opening times are Wednesday and Thursday 11-4pm & Sat 11-2pm). Plenty of time to catch it if you are about in the area! If you are new to the space, the gallery at Hope Mill is amazing too – great light with wonderful views of Ancoats and beyond. Highly recommend a visit!

Selected for AWOL / Comme Ca 2024 Open Call

Delighted to announce that I have been selected along with 21 others for the AWOL / Comme Ca 2024 Open Call. Many thanks to Short Supply, Sean Williams and Ceri Morgan for including my work in the show!

Really looking forward to the preview which will be held in Comme Ca’s gallery space at Hope Mill, Ancoats on 17th May 2024 (which is when the overall winner and highly commended prizes will be announced). The lucky first prize winner will receive £2,000, £150 in Cass Art vouchers and an exhibition opportunity at Cass Art in Manchester. The highly commended prize winner will receive £500.

Exhibiting artists are as follows: Aimee Spilstead, Anna Stevens, Catherine Hill, Christopher Rainham, Daniel Hester, Dotto, Georgia Noble, Hanzhi Zong, Helen Davies, James Bloomfield, Jamie Kirk, Jon Pountain, Kay Shah, Laura Nathan, Luke Armstrong, Michael Mackenzie, Niamh Murphy, Olga Mun, Sarah Grant, Sharon Howarth and Simon Blackley.

Preview of Neo Print Prize 2016

On the 27th August, Neo Gallery opened their doors from 2pm-4pm for the Print Prize preview. The first event to be housed in their new, larger space at the Market Place Shopping Centre in Bolton (only a short distance from their former home); it houses an impressive display of shortlisted artists from around the world with many interesting, examples of what it means to engage with print as a medium of creative expression.

Along with my piece, “Rendering”, you can view the work of Penny Alexander, Badr Ali, Katja Angeli, Sue Baker Kenton, Matthew Benington, Lynne Blackburn, Douglas Bosley, Sandra Bouguerch, Neil Bousfield, Kate Brett, Frea Buckler, Lisa Bulawsky, Mario Causic, Ian Chamberlain, Veronique Chance, Peggy Cozzi, Emily Crookshank, Radoslav Daskalov, Vic Dawson, Donna Dowd, Sarah Duncan, Olesya Dzhurayeva, Ruairi Fallon Mc Guigan, Chole Farrar, Nadia Francis, Tetsuya Fukushima, Emma Geddes, Darian Goldin Stahl, Dominica Harrison, Kimberley Heacock, Sam Hodge, Rachele Holt, Mary Hood, Daniel Hosego, Audrey Jamme, Petra Kallio, Ann-Kristen Källström, Algimantas Kaveckis, Tomasz M. Kukawski, Natasha Kumar, Mary Kuper, Hélène Latulippe, Chloe Lawrence, Catriona Leahy, Sara Lee, Lisa Chang Lee, Marine Lefebvre, Bella Leonard, Eleanor Lines, Scott Ludwig, Koralia Maciej, Mathias Martin, John McCaskill, Tori McLean, Chitra Merchant, Oran O’Reilly, D Otto, Roxy Topia and Paddy Gould, Sumi Perera, Susan Phillips, Nicole Polonsky, Hilary Powell, Nancy Power, J (Jay) Price, Robert Pugh, Anthony Ratcliffe, Rosie Rawson, Susan Ridge, Laura Rosser, Natasha Rowell, Egle Sakalyte, Blake Sanders, Amrita Saraogi, Gabriela Schutz, Margaret Sellars, Rowan Siddons, Mustafa Sidiki, Preeti Sood, Ismini Sotiraki Black, Susannah Stark, Kate Steenhauer, Jane Stobart, Stewart Taylor, Jade They, Amelia Tinton, Christine Toh, Carolin Weinert, Stella Whalley, Samuel Whitham and Cleo Wilkinson.

The exhibition continues until Sunday 30th October with viewing times from Thursday to Sunday, 11am – 5pm.

Neo: Art Prize 2015

Delighted to hear that I have been selected as one of the finalists in Neo: Art Prize 2015. The judges for this year included artist Ian Davenport, Amira Gad (Exhibitions curator, Serpentine Galleries, London), Margot Heller (Director, South London Gallery) and Helen Pheby (Senior Curator, Yorkshire Sculpture Park).

 

Exhibition at the Mercer Gallery

I am thrilled to report I have had two pieces shortlisted for the New Lights Art Prize. The exhibition is due to open at the Mercer Gallery in Harrogate and will run from 21st September until 17th November. It will move on to The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle in January 2014. More information coming soon…