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David Clarke and Simone ten Hompel
It has been a phenomenal time for us.
As London-based fine metalworkers, we applied for the prestigious Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2005: Metal, and we both made the short-list. However, it was little known at the time that we also shared a workshop, and to make things even more interesting, physically faced each other through this competition on a day-to-day basis. What followed was an intense eight-week period of making, seven days a week, almost fourteen hours a day. Prior to our applications to the Jerwood we agreed that friendship and the working environment would remain solid regardless of the result. One of us had to deal with not winning, whilst the other (ten Hompel) walked away with the £30,000 prize and is still coming to terms with winning. What we have learnt and now discuss over cups of tea, or the occasional glass of whiskey, is ownership of our own actions: that it can involve so much more than simply making an object and putting it out into a gallery space. It is about formulating a vision for your own practice and then questioning and testing this vision. ‘COLLECT’ at the V&A in February 2006 will see us both working for two different European galleries, primarily to sell. This is...
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