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Jerwood Applied Arts Prize

Jerwood Contemporary Makers is the Jerwood Charitable Foundation’s new initiative to support the applied arts and encourage new and stimulating ways of showing work across a range of disciplines. It replaces the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize, which was run in partnership with the Crafts Council for 11 years.

For further information on the work of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, please contact Thomas Ponsonby, Administrative Director. thomas.ponsonby@jerwood.org

Tel: 020 7261 0279.

This exhibition series will run over three years and is intended to showcase work by the new generation of contemporary makers in a fresh and unexpected way. Each exhibitor will be awarded a share of £30,000 to take part.

This year’s selection panel was led by ceramist, writer and critic Edmund de Waal with Swedish craft and design critic Love Jönsson and Amanda Game, former Director, Crafts The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, currently Lead Director IC: Innovative Craft, Edinburgh.

This initiative does not operate a shortlist system. Please refer to the Winners section.

Each exhibitor in the Jerwood Contemporary Makers exhibition will be awarded a share of £30,000 to take part.

For the first exhibition in the series, seven artists have been selected:

Gary Breeze – Letterforms

Sara Brennan - Textiles

Lin Cheung – Jewellery

Drummond Masterton – Metal

Deirdre Nelson – Textiles

Nicholas Rena – Ceramics

Clare Twomey – Ceramics

The exhibition will be on show in London before touring to at least two UK venues:

5 June– 13 July 2008
Jerwood Space
171 Union Street
London SE1 0LN

Gallery talks will take place on Mondays during the run of the exhibition.