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Commonwealth arts and crafts awards
Lee-Anne Hampson is the UK-based winner of the 2005 Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards.
The awards are granted every two years to young artists from across the Commonwealth who have shown exceptional promise in their own country but have had little opportunity to work abroad. Recipients are funded to travel to another Commonwealth country, work alongside that country’s artists, and mount an exhibition of their work at the end of their visit. Hampson will visit Papua New Guinea in the summer of 2006 after completing her current residency at Radley College, Oxford. Having already visited New Zealand and Fiji, she will further research Pacific art forms of carved masks and statues. Selected from over 170 entries from artists and arts administrators, eleven awards in total were granted. The other ten recipients are: printmaker and installation artist Dimple Shah and sculptors Nutan Bala and Dhananjay Kumar (India); painter Kabelo Kim Modise (Botswana); textile artist Bryan Duncan (Jamaica); painter Mary Ogembo (Kenya); installation artist Marnie Slater (New Zealand); printmaker Fatima Saeed (Pakistan); painter and printmaker Sheku Mansaray (Sierra Leone); and painter Stary Mwaba (Zambia). For further information visit the Commonwealth Foundation’s website at...
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