Axisweb Curated Selection Prizes – Winners Announced
I have been selected for the Axisweb Curated Selection Prize
“To support the next generation of curators, we invited students on MA Curating (or equivalent) courses around the country to take a look through our directory, choose six artworks and pitch for a chance to publish their Curated Selection on Axisweb.”
“We were delighted with the response and range of applications we received, although this did make selection difficult. But with the help of Alessandro Vincentelli, Curator of Exhibitions and Research at Baltic, Gateshead, we selected three winners who will work their proposals up into full Curated Selections to appear on the site in the New Year.”
The Winners:
Alice Bradshaw – MA by Research, University of Huddersfield
Alice’s selection focuses on artists whose practice appropriates rubbish and waste. She is interested in rubbish as a human construct with complex anthropological and socio-economic associations.
Susannah Worth – MA Critical Writing in Art & Design, Royal College of Art
Susannah examines the parallels between art and cooking, exploring what these activities have in common and how they touch on fundamental aspects of what it means to be human.
Helen Hillyard – MA Curating the Art Museum, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Helen selected artists who use language, be it written or spoken, as their primary material. Her chosen works, all by female artists, reveal an ongoing conflict between the need to speak and the difficulty of speaking.
Amelia Crouch, Lap and Skirt, 2008
The Runners Up:
Elizabeth Ibbotson, MSc History of Art, Theory and Display (University of Edinburgh)
George Vasey and Lucy Macdonald, MFA Curating (Goldsmiths)
Hannah Conroy, MA Curating Contemporary Art (Royal College of Art)
Joshua Tengan, MA Art Museum & Gallery Studies: Curatorship (Newcastle University)
Victor Wang, MA Curating Contemporary Art (Royal College of Art)
