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Converse and Dazed & Confused announce artists shortlist for the Converse/Dazed 2011 Emerging Artists Award in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery
From an overwhelming number of extremely high-standard entries, the five artists shortlisted for the Converse/Dazed 2011 Emerging Artists Award are Gabriele Beveridge, Ellie Harrison, Bruce Ingram, Samuel Levack & Jennifer Lewandowski and Richard Parry. These artists exhibit new work in a group exhibition from Friday 7 – Sunday 23 October 2011 at temporary gallery space 37 Heneage St, London E1 5LJ – just a five-minute walk from the Whitechapel Gallery.
The winner of the first prize will be announced on Saturday October 15, 2011 at the Whitechapel Gallery.
In support of the UK's vibrant creative community, the award – now in its second year – is an invaluable platform for emerging artists of all disciplines and offers the contenders a £6,000 first prize. Entry for submission ran between May 6 and June 30 and were put before an esteemed panel of judges from the art world, including Kirsty Ogg of the Whitechapel Gallery, artist Eva Rothschild, gallerist Sadie Coles, gallery director Darren Flook, curator Paul Pieroni and Dazed & Confused's visual arts editor, Francesca Gavin.
"We have been amazed by the incredible talent of emerging artists working at the moment. The artists shortlisted [for the competition] excel in the full spectrum of disciplines, from sculpture and installation to film and experimental sound. We anticipate a truly exciting exhibition in London in September."
– Kirsty Ogg, curator at Whitechapel Gallery and judge for the Converse/Dazed Emerging Artists Award
Gabriele Beveridge
Slade graduate Gabriele Beveridge pulls fragments of materials from the world around her – old picture magazines, photographs, spray paint, artefacts – and arranges them instinctually to create a feeling she describes as "familiar yet uncanny". Beveridge's work is already held in the Anita Zabludowicz collection in London, among others.
Ellie Harrison
Glasgow-based Goldsmiths graduate Ellie Harrison's high-concept installations, performances and interactive internet-based projects tackle the tensions between capitalism and climate change, ego and altruism in a satirical and playful style, while exploring the possibilities of working outside traditional art institutions.
Bruce Ingram
Graduating from MA sculpture at the Royal College of Art, Bruce Ingram's pieces reveal his interest in accidental moments and chance encounters during the artistic process; his current ongoing series of sculptures Elevations uses debris and leftover materials from his studio. Abstract in form, the works evolve through the compilation and arrangement of ephemeral materials such as polystyrene and pipe cleaners. Forms are fixed through layering, dipping in buckets of plaster and being glazed with commercial paints – additional paper elements are woven or pinned upon surface.
Samuel Levack & Jennifer Lewandowski
After meeting at art school, Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski forged an artistic partnership that has seen them collaborate on installations, film, performance, photography and experimental sound compositions. Their work often involves elements of live performance and audience participation and the pair are currently working on a psychedelic impression of the 1948 film The Red Shoes. They opened their own gallery this year, French Riviera in Bethnal Green, which provides a platform for their contemporaries who are currently without representation.
Richard Parry
London-based avant-garde artist Richard Parry challenges the role of the artist and the art world's expanding commercial markets. His conceptually playful work has filled galleries with hundreds of bright yellow lilos and helped trap the author JG Ballard in the fictional land of Narnia. His catalogues for a semi-fictional travelling art fair have spearheaded exhibitions in Paris, Stockholm, London and Zimbabwe and in his spare time he relaxes by oil painting.
The competition is open to all UK-based artists under the age of 35 that are not represented by a gallery in the UK, and are not currently students at university or art school.
Competing artists were invited to submit their most innovative and interesting work for the judges' consideration. There were no limitations on discipline: video, sculpture, performance and sound entries were all welcome.
In total, there will be five shortlisted artists and one overall winner. These will be selected on the basis of what the judges believe to be the most innovative, interesting and well-produced work.
The winner will receive a cash prize of £6,000 and each of the shortlisted artists will receive £1,000.
Both the shortlisted artists and the winner will have both their entry and their portfolio of work exhibited in September/October 2011 in a gallery situated close to the Whitechapel Gallery in East London.
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