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Jerwood Drawing Prize Winners Announced
13/Sep/2011
Jerwood Visual Arts and Drawing Projects UK are delighted to announce that Gary Lawrence has been awarded the First Prize of £6,000 for his drawing Homage to Anonymous in the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011. His work, along with that of the 60 short-listed artists will be shown at JVA at Jerwood Space, London from 14 September – 30 October 2011.
Gary Lawrence lives and works in Essex. His work, Homage to Anonymous, a large scale drawing made in ballpoint pen on the back of discarded posters, is ‘a tribute to all the anonymous artists through history who made work but are unrecognised’.
The Jerwood Drawing Prize is the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK. Judged by an independent panel of selectors, the Prize aims to recognise and support all UK based artists, from student to established, working in the field of drawing.
Approximately 3,500 entries were submitted this year for consideration by the distinguished panel of selectors: Iwona Blazwick, Director, Whitechapel Gallery; Tim Marlow, writer, broadcaster and Director of Exhibitions, White Cube; and Rachel Whiteread, artist. The shortlist includes established artists as well as relative newcomers and students fresh from art school.
A Second Prize of £3,000 was awarded to Jessie Brennan, who lives and works in London. Her 5-metre long pencil drawing, The Cut, is a culmination of an artist project about the Lea River Navigation Canal commissioned by SPACE, (2011). Her work ‘explores the social history of the area. Part of an ongoing investigation into our psychological and physical interpretation of place and time, it explores the nature of local mythologies constructed by our collective memory.’
Two Student Awards of £1,000 each went to Nicki Rolls for Sketch and Kristian Fletcher for Lake. Nicki Rolls is currently studying MA Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London. Sketch, a 16mm black and white film, which has been digitally animated and projected on an open book, explores ‘the idea of writing movement with light and the relationship between film, animation and drawing.’ Kristian Fletcher is currently studying Drawing and Applied Arts at the University of the West of England. Kristian’s interest lies in architecture, space and geometry, born from ten years of experience within the construction industry.
An exhibition of selected works will take place at JVA at Jerwood Space, London from 14 September – 30 October 2011. The exhibition will then tour nationally.
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Image: Gary Lawrence, Homage to Anonymous (detail), 2011
