Jerwood Drawing Prize - Pittville Studios

The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010 exhibition will be at the Summerfield Gallery, Pittville Studios, University of Gloucestershire, 11th - 22nd November. (See review in an.)


First prize has been awarded to Virginia Verran for her drawing Bolus Space (signal), 2009/10, pens on canvas (above).

Second prize has gone to Cadi Froehlich for Untitled (tea table), 2010, side table, hot drink rings (below).

Student prizes were awarded to Warren Andrews:

Warren Andrews, David M. Hutchinson Drawing No.436, 2010, mixed media.

and James Eden & Olly Rooks:

James Eden & Olly Brooks, Burst, 2010, film (of graphite balloon bursts) 5mins, 15 secs.

The Jerwood Drawing Prize was established in 1996 as the annual Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition - it was renamed the Jerwood Drawing Prize when the Jerwood Charitable Foundation became the principal supporter in 2001.
Just under 3,000 entries were submitted this year for consideration by the selectors: Charles Darwent, Art Critic, Independent on Sunday; Jenni Lomax, Director of the Camden Arts Centre; and Emma Talbot, artist (former Course Leader, Fine Art, University of Gloucestershire).

Installation view.

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize - National Portrait Gallery

David Chancellor's Huntress with Buck has been awarded first prize in the Taylor Wessing portrait prize at the National Portrait Gallery. The portrait is of 14-year-old American Josie Slaughter, a skilled hunter from Birmingham, Alabama, on her first hunting trip to South Africa. Chancellor says: ‘The contrast between the peace and tranquillity of the location, plus Josie’s ethereal beauty and the dead buck, was what I wanted to explore. Here was a vulnerability and yet also a strength.’

Second prize was awarded to Panayiotis Lamprou for Portrait of My British Wife; Lamprou says of the picture: ‘To me, it expresses female power and independence as well as my devotion to my wife’.

Third prize went to Jeffrey Stockbridge for Tic Tac and Tootsie (twin sisters Carroll and Shelly McKean) The sisters, who live on the street in Kensington, North Philadelphia, and suffer from insomnia, are both addicted to Xanex and have resorted to prostitution to supply their habit.
Stockbridge says, ‘Enduring unthinkable pain on a daily basis, the sisters are both incredibly strong and weak at the same time. Caught in the grip of their addiction, they do whatever it takes to survive, except for getting clean'.

Fourth prize went to Abbie Trayler-Smith for Untitled 2 from her series Childhood Obesity. The prtrait is of Chelsea from Sheffield. Trayler-Smith says, ‘Whilst talking about how it feels to live with the prejudices that come with being overweight, I looked away to change the film in my camera. When I looked back the picture was suddenly there. I shot one frame.’

The exhibition is at the National Portrait Gallery from 11th November - 20th February 2011. All quotes and details above are from the NPG website.

Exhibition Roundup - November, 2010

An occasional, and highly selective, pick of current and forthcoming exhibitions.

Sarah Lucas, Nud (24), 2010

The British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet has opened in various venues across Nottingham (until 9^th Jan, 2011) and has received some very positive reviews (see Adrian Searle and Laura Cumming). Particularly well received has been the work of Sarah Lucas (above) and Christian Marclay’s film, “The Clock”. (This can also been seen at White Cube, Mason’s Yard until 13^th November.)

An exhibition of the work of Gerhard Richter is showing at The New Walk Museum and Gallery in Leicester, until 27^th February 2011. This is one of the ‘Artists’ Rooms’ donated to the nation by Anthony d’Offay.

Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild, 1994

Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South is showing at the wonderful De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea, until 3^rd January 2011. The exhibition includes work by Walker Evans, William Eggleston, William Christenberry, Carrie Mae Weems, Alec Soth, Susan Lipper and others. The De La Warr Pavilion, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, built in 1935, restored in 2005, is one of the Modernist gems of English architecture.

William Christenberry, Green Warehouse, 1978

Erich Mendelssohn and Serge Chermayeff, De La Warr Pavilion, 1935

In London, Rirkrit Tiravanija is at Pillar Corias. Tiravanija has been associated with 'Relational Aesthetics' (see Nicolas Bourriaud (2003) Relational Aesthetics, Dijon: Les Presse du Réel) - his previous work has included preparing meals for gallery visitors. This show features 2 works: an 8 hour video charting a day in the life of Leung Neaw, an elderly Thai man, and a 35mm slide installation showing the gallery director recounting a day in her life for the duration of a working day.

Angela Bulloch has also been associated with Relational Aesthetics and is showing new sculptures, Discrete Manifold Whatsoever, at Simon Lee (until 27^th November).

Angela Bulloch, Aluminium Double, 2010

Richard Wentworth: Three Guesses, will be at the Whitechapel Gallery, 6^th November – 30^th January 2011, and promises to investigate perceptions and misperceptions of length and volume, and string!

The Courtauld Gallery has put together a show which brings together, for the first time, a group of Paul Cézanne’s paintings of card players. See 3 short videos about the work on the Courtauld’s website. The exhibition will run until 16^th January 2011.

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize will be at the National Portrait Gallery from 11^th November – 20^th February 2011.

David Knight, Catharina #081, 2009

Most of the exhibitions listed for October will run through, or into, November. For links and details of the following, see Exhibition Roundup – (mid) October:

· Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography at the V&A ( - 20^th February 2011)

· Christian Marclay at White Cube (Mason's Yard) ( - 13^th November)

· Move: Choreographing You: Art & Dance at the Hayward Gallery ( - 9^th January, 2011)

· James Turrell at Gagosian (Britannia Street) ( - 10^th December)

· Damien Hirst: Poisons + Remedies at Gagosian (Davies Street) (- 20^th November).

· Marina Abramović at the Lisson Gallery (- 13th November)

For links and details of the following, see Exhibition Roundup – October:

· The Liverpool Biennial ( - 28^th November)

· Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010 at The Coach Shed, Liverpool ( - 13^th November)

· John Moores Painting Prize 2010 at the Walker Art Gallery ( - 3^rd January 2011)

· The 4^th Brighton Photo Biennial ( - 14^th November)

· Robert Mapplethorpe at Towner in Eastbourne ( - 21^st November)

· Paul Gauguin at Tate Modern ( - 16^th January, 2011)

· Ai Weiwei at Tate Modern ( - 2^nd May 2011)

· Turner Prize at Tate Britain ( - 3^rd January 2011)

· Eadweard Muybridge and Rachel Whiteread Drawings at Tate Britain ( - 16^th January 2011)

· Fiona Banner at Tate Britain ( - 3^rd January 2011)

· Kitagawa Utamaro and Donald Judd: A Good Chair is a Good Chair at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham ( - 14^th November)

· The 20th Hereford Photography Festival ( - 27^th November)

Catatumbo - Xposed Club, 12th November

Poster by Mark Unsworth.

Catatumbo - an improvising trio: Ingrid Laubrock (tenor saxophone), Olie Brice (double bass) and Javier Carmona (drums), will play Xposed Club in the atrium, Pittville Studios, Cheltenham on Friday 12th November. £5.00 (£3.00 concs.) on the door, starts 8.00pm.

[Catatumbo = a river rising in Colombia and flowing into Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela; Catatumbo Lightning is a spectacular phenomenon occurring over the mouth of the river, where it enters the lake: lightning storms will occur for up to 10 hours a day, 140-160 days a year. (Source: Wikipedia)]

Photograph by Vladimir Marcano

BJP International Photography Award - exhibition

The winners of the 2010 BJP International Photography Award are being exhibited at the AOP Gallery (Association of Photographers) from the 2nd to the 6th November.
The winner of the 'body of work' category is Peter diCampo for his Life Without Lights series:

Peter DiCampo, Lights at the night time market in Gbulung, Ghana.

DiCampo writes about the project on his website:
Year-round in Ghana, the sun sets at 6pm and rises at 6am - thus, the residents of communities lacking electricity live half of their lives in the dark. Over ten years ago, the government of Ghana began a massive campaign to provide the country's rural north with electricity, but the project ceased almost immediately after it began. The work sluggishly resumes during election years, as candidates attempt to garner popularity and votes. But at present, an estimated 73% of villages remain without electricity in the neglected north - an area comprising 40% of the country.

Living without lights is more than just a minor inconvenience. Electricity provides a paramount step on the ladder of economics, and northern villagers know what is being kept from them: lights to study and cook by, machinery and refrigeration, and a standard of living that would attract teachers, nurses, and other civil service workers from the city, not to mention foreign tourists. Potential economic growth is stifled and poverty's cyclical nature is perpetuated...

The winner of the single image category is Michelle Sank for her picture of a sleeping man, an award which has proved to be controversial in the pages of the BJP.

Michelle Sank, Man asleep on the Golden Mile, Durban, South Africa.

Hereford Photography Festival - 2010

Simon Norfolk, Full Spectrum Dominance, 2008
The 20th annual Hereford Photography Festival runs from 29th October through to 27th November. An extensive exhibition programme includes "Twenty", curated by Paul Seawright and featuring photographers who have shown work at the festival over the last 20 years, including, amongst others, Jodi Bieber, Martin Parr, Paul Hill, Rankin, Roger Ballen and Simon Norfolk. See slide shows of images at The Telegraph and The Independent. See the HPF website for full details of all exhibitions and the programme of talks and events.

Landscape Photographer of the Year - 2010

Winter Mist: Corfe Castle, by Antony Spencer: winner of the The Landscape Photographer of the Year, 2010.
See gallery of winning and commended entries here.

Andrew Whitaker, Newcastle and Gateshead Quayside. (Highly commended.)