THE THREADNEEDLE PRIZE 2011
One of my paintings has been accepted for this year's exhibition
Exhibition open 22 September — 8 October 2011
10am — 5pm daily (closes 1pm on Wednesday 5 October)
Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1
The £25,000 Threadneedle Prize is the UK's leading showcase for paintings and sculptures that promote the practice of representational art, but challenge its language and assumptions.
All works selected for the exhibition are sourced through open competition. In a record year for submissions, the selectors reviewed 4,350 works submitted for consideration, before making a shortlist of seven works. The winner of the £25,000 Threadneedle Prize has been chosen by the selectors from this shortlist and each of the six runners-up will receive £1,000.
Visitors to the exhibition are also encouraged to vote for their favourite work and the artist with the highest number of public votes will be awarded the £10,000 Visitors’ Choice prize. In a departure from previous years, all works in the exhibition are eligible to win this prize.
Come along and cast your vote.
Selectors for this year’s £25,000 Prize and exhibition are:
Julie Lomax, London Head of Visual Arts, Arts Council England
Lisa Milroy, Artist & Head of Graduate Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
Godfrey Worsdale, Director of BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art & Juror for the 2011 Turner Prize
Admission Free
REGENERATION & PUSHING PAINT
FEATURING TWO ARTISTS: JOE TYMKOW & KAREN WOOD
THE OCTAGON, Milsom Place, Bath BA1 1BZ,
18 - 22 MAY 2011, 10am - 8pm
Both artists produce transitional pieces, which change during their construction, drawing on inspiration from industrial environments and the tangible substance of paint.
Regeneration: Karen Wood www.kbwood.co.uk
Karen’s paintings, collages and graphic images incorporate wasteland and bold structures inspired by urban building projects as they progress through stages of their regeneration.
Karen was first enthused by the boldness of large structural frameworks and the energy, activity and transformation to be found in expansive urban regeneration sites. Her initial work concentrated on the Bristol Cabot Circus and Bath Southgate development projects leading onto the larger scale development site of the London Olympics 2012.
Energy, noise, movement and continual working progression at these sites feed into her many onsite drawings, photographic images and studio paintings. Random segments of Karen’s paintings are stripped back and restarted, reflecting an essence of urban regeneration.
With a passion for dramatic, bold and energetic mark marking, Karen endeavors to capture a sense of what has gone before - a glimpse at the hidden industrial wasteland, history and inner skeleton of constructions and their surrounding environment.
Pushing Paint: Joe Tymkow www.joetymkow.co.uk
Joe’s paintings embody his exploration into the physicality, tactility and aesthetic qualities of paint. The resulting surface is as important as the work itself.
Joe equates his work with that of exposed negatives i.e. latent images awaiting development. The application and subsequent part removal of paint, coupled with the interaction between differing mediums, produce a multitude of diverse qualities in his work. The varying processes Joe adopts drive each work in a different direction. His response to the way paint behaves and the use of multiple layering contribute to the richness found on and under the surface.
Painting on a large scale, says Joe, gives him the freedom of movement for these layers to come to life. His natural inquisitiveness, fondness for experimentation and child-like sense of wonder, combined with down-to-earth practical experience in science and photography, feeds into and informs his practice. This unusual mix of characteristics produces a logical approach and a delight in the results.