Following the resounding success of last year’s curated show, the Jerwood Charitable Foundation is pleased to announce the artists selected for the second Jerwood Contemporary Painters exhibition. This vibrant collection of twenty emerging artists exhibiting one work each is concerned with the debate of what painting is, and what it may become.
The exhibition offers an exciting opportunity to emerging artists who are at a particular stage in their development, those falling between student and recognised artist statusthe exhibition reaffirms the Jerwood Charitable Foundation’s commitment to painting as well as the understanding of its importance in the visual arts. Each of the 20 exhibiting artists who have all graduated since 2000 show one selected piece of work and be rewarded a £1,500 participation fee.
The exhibition aims to promote, discover and support imaginative and vibrant practice in contemporary painting. The selectors, who are artists themselves, chose 20 artists to take part in an exhibition in April 2008 at the Jerwood Space, London. The exhibition will then tour nationally.
Stephen Farthing will chair this year’s selection panel, accompanied by Anita Taylor and Jason Brooks. They will select 20 artists to take part in an exhibition in the Jerwood Space, London in April 2008.
Professor Stephen Farthing
Stephen Farthing has exhibited extensively in international one man shows since his first solo exhibition held at the Royal College of Art Gallery, London in 1977. From 1990 – 2000 he was the Ruskin Master of Drawing at the University of Oxford. He was elected Royal Academician in 1998.
Professor Anita Taylor
Anita Taylor is an artist, Dean of Wimbledon College of Art and Director of The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London. She has been on the selection panel for six open exhibitions, including chairing the Hunting Art Prize in 2002. She has helped to establish several exhibitions, including the annual Jerwood Drawing Prize.
Jason Brooks
Jason Brooks’ photorealist paintings have been given solo and group exhibitions in the UK and abroad. Brooks was a prize winner in the John Moores 20 (1997) and went on to join the judging panel of the John Moores 24 (2006). He won the Natwest Art Prize in 1999.
Each selected artist will receive a £1500 participation fee.
The selected artists for the 2008 exhibition include:
Johan Andersson
Varda Caivano
Gordon Cheung
Ross Chisholm
Simon Collins
Tom Crawford
Matthew Draper
Elinor Evans
Andrew Griffiths
Nadia Hebson
Günther Herbst
Sally Kindberg
Sophie Lascelles
Andrea Medjesi-Jones
Yuko Nasu
Alicia Paz
Michael Samuels
Chris Smith
Caroline Walker
James Wright
Exhibition 9 April – 18 May
Jerwood Space, Union Street, London SE1
Jerwood Contemporary Painters will tour to the Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol, from 22 June – 17 August. Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Sundays 2pm – 5pm. Admission FREE. Tel: 0117 973 5129
Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2008 - Exhibition Events
A series of events has been organised to promote interesting, thought provoking and relevant conversation and debate around painting. Starting at 6pm each evening, these events will take place on the following dates in the galleries and glasshouse at the Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN. Admission to the events is free, but booking is recommended: 01372 462 190.
Monday 14 April: Meet the Artists 6-8pm
Anita Taylor introduces and chairs this exhibition walk through with artists Johan Andersson, Simon Collins, Tom Crawford, Andrew Griffiths, Günter Herbst, Sally Kindberg, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Alicia Paz, and Caroline Walker.
Monday 21 April : Craigie Aitchison RA in Conversation with Tony Godfrey 6-8pm
Established artist Craigie Aitchison discusses his long career, and also the state of painting today, with Tony Godfrey, Academic Director of Sotheby’s Institute, London and author of Conceptual Art (Phaidon, 1998) and Painting Today, soon to be published by Phaidon Press.
Monday 28 April: Selectors' Question Time 6-8pm
Stephen Farthing, Anita Taylor and Jason Brooks, selectors for the 2008 exhibition, answer questions put to them by audience members and gallery visitors* about the artists and works they have selected and also the current state of painting. This event will be recorded live for broadcast on Resonance FM on Wednesday 30 April, at 8pm. Tune in at 104.4 fm or www.resonancefm.com
*Audience members and visitors to the exhibition are invited to submit questions in advance of the evening, by either filling in a form in the gallery or by emailing: jcp@parkerharris.co.uk.
Monday 12 May: Panel Discussion: Richard Dyer, Katie Pratt & Marc Vaux 6-8pm
Painters Katie Pratt and Marc Vaux in discussion with art critic Richard Dyer, focusing in particular on the stages of their careers in which they were emerging painters. Open to questions at the end of the discussion.
Contemporary Culture Review On Resonance FM
Artists from Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2008 hosted a series of Contemporary Culture Review broadcasts on Resonance FM, between 8 - 9pm, on the following Wednesday evenings: 16 & 23 April & 7 May 2008. The Selectors' Question Time event, detailed above, was also be recorded live and broadcast on Resonance FM on Wednesday 30 April. Tune for all these shows at: 104.4 fm or http://www.resonancefm.com
Wednesday 16 April
Jerwood Contemporary Painters: Contemporary Culture Review
Anchored by Lisa LeFeuvre, three artists from the Jerwood Contemporary Painters exhibition review a selection of current cultural events as part of a series of four on Resonance FM. Sally Kindberg, Tom Crawford, and Andrea Medjesi-Jones are this week's artists providing an insight into how different modes of contemporary culture effect and influence emerging artists and their practice.
Wednesday 23 April
Jerwood Contemporary Painters: Contemporary Culture Review
Anchored by Jerwood Sculpture Prize winner Juliet Haysom, three artists from the Jerwood Contemporary Painters exhibition review a selection of current cultural events. Visual art, music, dance, drama, cinema; this will be an insight into how different modes of contemporary culture effect and influence emerging artists and their practice. This week's artists are Johan Andersson, Alicia Paz, and Andrew Griffiths.
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Wednesday 30 April
Jerwood Contemporary Painters: Selectors' Question Time
Broadcast of a talk recorded as live at the Jerwood Space on Monday 28 April. Jason Brooks, Stephen Farthing and Anita Taylor answer questions from the audience about the selection of the Jerwood Contemporary Painters exhibition, and discuss contemporary painting as a whole.
Wednesday 7 May
Jerwood Contemporary Painters: Contemporary Culture Review
Anchored by Jerwood Visual Arts Coordinator Sarah Williams, three artists from the Jerwood Contemporary Painters exhibition review a selection of current cultural events. Visual art, music, dance, drama, cinema; this will be an insight into how different modes of contemporary culture effect and influence emerging artists and their practice. This week's artists are Sophie Lascelles, Günther Herbst, and Chris Smith.
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Jerwood Contemporary Painters Exhibition Artists Announced 2008
Jerwood Contemporary Painters Artists Announced 2007
Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2007: Selection panel
Graham Crowley (Chairperson), a contemporary landscape artist whose principal subject is Rineen in Ireland. Having obtained his MA from the Royal College of Art, he lectured there and at Goldsmiths before becoming head of painting for the Royal College of Art. Crowley has exhibited non-stop for the past 30 years. He was shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting Prize in 2002 and was runner-up in the John Moores Exhibition 2006. Now retired from the Royal College of Art Graham currently lives and paints in the West coast of Ireland.
Elizabeth Magill is a highly inventive contemporary artist. Having graduated from the Slade School of Art, she has successfully exhibited in England, Ireland, Europe and America, including group exhibitions such as Place in Mind with Adam Chodzko and Stan Douglas. Magill is currently represented by the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin and Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York.
David Rayson. Having graduated from the Royal College of Art, Rayson became well known for his paintings of Wolverhampton, where he grew up. He has recently been included in Landscape, a British Council International Touring exhibition, and many further exhibitions in London and Manchester. Raysons’s work is exhibited and collected widely both here and abroad. He is currently head of painting at the Royal College of Arts.
Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2007: Selected artists
William Daniels
Robin Dixon
Luke Dowd
Noa Edwards
Frank Fischer
David Fletcher
Nicholas Fox
Maria Glyka
Todd Kelly
Alec Kronacker
Adam Latham
Ursula Llewellyn
Sara MacKillop
Marisol Malatesta
Lisa McKendrick
Lucy Pawlak
Claire Pestaille
Thomas Raat
Sheila Rennick
Damien Roach
Neal Rock
Melanie Russell
Duncan Swann
Mia Taylor
Gabriel Tejada Maggi
Will Turner
Camilla Wilson
Emily Wolfe
Vicky Wright
Isabel Young
Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2007: Exhibition dates
15 February - 31 March 2007
Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN
18 April - 18 May 2007
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Open Tuesday – Saturday, 12pm – 5pm
Admission free
30 June – 23 September
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