Brand New!! Svetlana Fialova Wins Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013

Svetlana Fialová (Svetlana Fialová) has won the £8,000 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013 for her ink on newspaper drawing, Apocalypse (My Boyfriend Doesn’t Care).

The Second Prize of £5,000 has been awarded to Marie von Heyl.

3,000 drawings were entered inward the UK's most prestigious prize for drawing.

Winner of the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013
Apocalypse (My Boyfriend Doesn’t Care)
Ink on paper, 183 x 150cm
© Svetlana Fialova

The winning plant along with those of the other 75 selected artists volition live on on display inward the exhibition at Jerwood Space, London from 11 September – 27 Oct 2013. The London exhibition is included inward the London Design Festival programme, taking house from 14–22 September 2013.

Jerwood Visual Arts volition host a serial of eve events to accompany the exhibition. Events are gratuitous exactly must live on booked inward advance, for to a greater extent than data please banking firm check the Jerwood Visual Arts website.

The exhibition volition as well as then tour to venues across the U.K.
including

the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University (Nov 2013–Feb 2014);
The Gallery, Plymouth College of Art, as well as Plymouth Arts Centre (Feb–Mar 2014);
and the Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University (Mar–Apr 2014).

It may surprise some people to acquire that the compass of contemporary drawing practise as well as images selected for this exhibition a variety of dissimilar approaches to drawing. Artists are working inward diverse media from pencil, charcoal as well as graphite on paper, to drawings on textile, canvas music as well as wood, inward improver to etching, stitching, video work, installation, digitally generated drawing as well as animation.

Jerwood Visual Arts and Drawing Projects UK sponsor the UK’s largest as well as longest running annual opened upwardly exhibition for drawing which aims to explore as well as celebrate the diversity, excellence as well as hit of electrical current drawing practice.

The First Prize Winner

Svetlana Fialova lives as well as plant inward London as well as Prague. She is currently studying for a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts as well as Design, Bratislava.

‘In my practice, I normally become inspired past times themes which depict on pop culture, the internet, TV, magazines or urban legends combined with invented characters. This locomote is based on a to a greater extent than intimate as well as personal moment. It captures my swain inward an apathetic pose, pulling chewing mucilage out of his mouth. Background scenes including fragments from Albrecht Dürer’s Apocalypse series, an unhealthy total of Crocs shoes as well as the apotheosis of the cats all brand a plumbing equipment setting for his electrical current mood.’

The Second Prize Winner

Marie von Heyl won the 2nd prize of £5,000 for her video work, Interior (Utopia). Born inward Stuttgart, Deutschland as well as straight off living betwixt London as well as Berlin, Marie studied BA Fine Art at Weißensee School of Art, Berlin as well as Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy Schools inward London. She has late been awarded the Deutsche Bank Award for Fine Art 2013.

Second Prize: Interior (Utopia)
Digital video, 7.25 mins
© Marie von Heyl

Her prize-winning video shows the creative mortal examining her London apartment using her ain body. Referencing the interior every bit a trope of fine art history every bit good every bit the modernist utopian ideal of the Modulor, von Heyl discovers symmetries as well as interconnectivities betwixt the human trunk as well as its artificial environment.

The Student Awards

Two Student Awards of £2,000 were awarded to Kristian Fletcher as well as Tamsin Nagel. Kristian prevented the awards from existence a construct clean sweep for women artists!

Kristian Fletcher late graduated with MA Drawing from the Prince’s Drawing School, London, having previously worked every bit a scaffolder inward London.

The Wrench

Pen, pencil as well as charcoal, ninety x 110cm

His pen, pencil as well as charcoal drawing, The Wrench, investigates aspects of social remnants inward our built surroundings paying exceptional attending to structures as well as house inward a status of flux. Using the medium of drawing he attempts to explore how permanent as well as temporary structures come upwardly to live on invested, as well as reinvested.

Tamsin Nagel, who was born inward Berlin, Germany, has late completed an MA inward Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art, London, previously studying BA Illustration at Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London (2008-11).

Enclave (ii)

Pencil on paper, fifty x 250cm

Her pencil on newspaper drawing, Enclave (ii), is adapted from a collection of curt stories past times the writers Donald Barthelme, John Collier, Daniil Kharms as well as Robert Walser.

It explores small-town notions of life, death, religion as well as the absurd.

Special Commendations

The selectors convey too awarded Special Commendations to

Neville Gabie for his video as well as chalk locomote entitled Experiments inward dark as well as white VII; as well as to
Gary Lawrence for Saint Stansted (and Other Stuff), a mixed media drawing using biro, gel, as well as felt pens as well as stone oil pastel on paper.

About the Jerwood Drawing Prize

Characteristics of The Jerwood Drawing Prize are:

The Open Exhibition - a platform for drawing practitioners to showcase their locomote amongst other leading contemporary artists inward this field
Selection - Selected from master copy fine art plant based on the locomote every bit presented,
Reputation - commitment to championing excellence as well as promoting contemporary drawing practise inside the UK.

Exhibition Information:

Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013 11 September–27 Oct 2013

Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN Mon–Fri from 10am–5pm, Sabbatum & Lord's Day from 10am–3pm

Nearest Tube stations: Southwark, London Bridge or Borough

Links:

MAKING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MARK: Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013 - Selected Artists
MAKING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MARK: Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013: Call for Entries 25 April 2013 Overview of the telephone vociferation upwardly for entries for the 2013 Jerwood Drawing Prize - including details of submission process, prizes as well as selectors.
MAKING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MARK: Karolina Glusiec wins £8,000 Jerwood Drawing Prize 13 Sep 2012 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012 - names of prizewinners, images of prizewinning locomote as well as links to their websites.
MAKING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MARK: Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012: Selected Artists 06 Jul 2012 78 plant past times 73 artists selected for Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012; shortlisted artists listed with links to their websites.
MAKING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MARK: Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011 - selected artists announced 18 Jul 2011
Making a Mark: Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010 won past times Virginia Verran 29 Sep 2010
MAKING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MARK: Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010 - The Shortlist 23 Aug 2010
MAKING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MARK: Contemporary Drawing Practice 06 Oct 2010
MAKING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MARK: Antony Gormley on drawing - at the Jerwood 22 January 2008