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British British ceramics Biennial proclaims winners of UK’s main British ceramics prize AWARD and New awards for fresh skill.
Stephen Dixon has been named the winner of AWARD, the main platform for contemporary ceramic artwork practice in the UK and one of the most flagship exhibitions at this Three hundred and sixty five days’s British British ceramics Biennial, which takes situation in Stoke-on-Trent till 17 October.
Stephen Dixon changed into chosen from a shortlist of 10 artists and awarded the £5,000 prize for excellence, innovation and ingenious ambition. His winning work, Transient: The Ship of Dreams and Nightmares is a 4m-prolonged silhouette of a long-established Mediterranean fishing vessel, the stereotypical checklist of a refugee shipwreck. The work is made from a series of suspended maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware) objects, every representing both the dream of a fresh lifestyles in a situation of refuge or the nightmare of battle, displacement or compelled migration. These objects, which fluctuate from a lifestyles jacket to a rocking horse were chosen at some level of on-line discussion groups with refugees and asylum seekers from the Burslem Jubilee Project essentially based in Stoke-on-Trent.
In his practice Stephen Dixon makes impart of British ceramics to analyze contemporary narratives. The plot of maiolica frail in this work originated in nineth century Iraq, and gradually spread all the contrivance by the Mediterranean into Moorish Spain, Renaissance Italy and at closing into Northern Europe.
Transient: The Ship of Dreams and Nightmares draws upon the geographical similarity between the historic migration of maiolica and the migration routes of most up-to-date refugees and asylum seekers.
Alun Graves Senior Curator British ceramics and Glass V&A and Chair of the different panel comments: ‘Stephen Dixon’s work – Transient: The Ship of Dreams and Nightmares – demonstrates British ceramics’ skill to handle the pressing issues of our instances. It is miles famed in idea, invent and execution. It engages meaningfully with the hopes and fears of migrant expertise, painstakingly rendering in ceramic objects which contain symbolic brand for refugees and asylum seekers from the Burslem Jubilee Project. With sizable clarity, it represents their voices, whereas allowing his hang inventive disclose a quieter supporting position. As such it stands as a piece of exceptional humanity, apart from one of exceptional ideal presence.’
Stephen Dixon changed into chosen from a 10-tough checklist of artists who together present a snapshot and event of newest job in ceramic artwork. The opposite shortlisted artists were Helen Beard, Christie Brown, Alison Cooke, Connor Coulston, Tamsin van Essen, Mawuena Kattah, Jin Eui Kim, Ho Lai and Cleo Mussi, all of whom contain created fresh work at the moment on novel at this Three hundred and sixty five days’s BCB festival.
Three early career artists at a start moment in their ingenious practice were awarded New residency opportunities. Dorcas Casey, Nico Conti and Leora Honeyman were chosen from 25 artists from UK and Ireland exhibiting in BCB’s New exhibition, which celebrates and affords an essential platform for the fresh wave of makers, artists and designers working in clay as they start their ingenious careers.
Dorcas Casey, a sculptor drawn to tips round dreams, tales, intuition and reminiscence, will undertake a residency at Guldagergaard Worldwide British ceramics Analysis Middle; Nico Conti, whose dazzling work embraces the tradition and heritage of his upbringing in Malta and sees him pairing clay with 3D printing applied sciences, will soak up a residency at Staffordshire University; and Leora Honeyman’s residency with the British British ceramics Biennial will look her bag her sculptural, summary forms that mix clay with various materials and making processes.
The entire winning artists from AWARD and New can be invited to newest fresh work in the 2023 British British ceramics Biennial.
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Notes to editors
BCB AWARD 2021 judging panel:
- Alun Graves - Senior Curator British ceramics and Glass V&A (Chair)
- Clare Twomey – Artist, Researcher and Author
- Vicky Lindo and William Brookes – AWARD 2019 winners
- Barney Hare Duke – Aged Inventive Director, British British ceramics Biennial
- Deirdre Figueiredo – Director, Craftspace
- Anjani Khanna – Atist and Co-founding Curator of the Indian British ceramics Triennale
- Skinder Hundal – Director of Arts, British Council
New 2021 different panel:
- Helen Felcey – Artist, Educator and Curator (Chair)
- Dr Neil Brownsword – Artist and Professor, Staffordshire University
- Lee Critchlow – Product Beget Supervisor, Wedgwood Fiskars
- Dr Natasha Mayo – Senior Lecturer, Cardiff Metropolitan University
- Bisila Noha – Artist, Trustee at Headway East London, Co-Director at Lon Work, section of Beget Can
- Shane Porter – Clothier and Lecturer, Belfast Metropolitan College
- Formative years Panel from Haywood Academy Secondary College, Stoke-on-Trent. Supported by Recede out Helen Morgan
British British ceramics Biennial funders:
The British British ceramics Biennial is funded by Stoke-on-Trent Metropolis Council and is supported the impart of public funding by Arts Council England.
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