Svetlana Fialova Wins Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013

Svetlana Fialová (Svetlana Fialováhas 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 industrial plant along with those of the other 75 selected artists volition endure 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 precisely must endure booked inward advance, for to a greater extent than data please banking enterprise check the Jerwood Visual Arts website.

The exhibition volition therefore tour to venues across the Britain
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It may surprise some people to acquire that the range 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, sail music as well as wood, inward add-on 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 upward 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 industrial 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 unremarkably become inspired past times themes which describe on pop culture, the internet, TV, magazines or urban legends combined with invented characters. This move is based on a to a greater extent than intimate as well as personal moment. It captures my beau 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, FRG as well as directly 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 latterly 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 somebody examining her London apartment using her ain body. Referencing the interior equally a trope of fine art history equally good equally 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 beingness a construct clean sweep for women artists!

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

The Wrench
Pen, pencil as well as charcoal, xc x 110cm
© Kristian Fletcher
His pen, pencil as well as charcoal drawing, The Wrench, investigates aspects of social remnants inward our built environs paying especial 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 upward to endure invested, as well as reinvested.

Tamsin Nagel, who was born inward Berlin, Germany, has latterly 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
© Tamsin Nagel
Her pencil on newspaper drawing, Enclave (ii), is adapted from a collection of brusk stories past times the writers Donald Barthelme, John Collier, Daniil Kharms as well as Robert Walser. 

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

Special Commendations


The selectors convey too awarded Special Commendations to 
  • Neville Gabie for his video as well as chalk move 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 crude oil pastel on paper.

'Experiments inward dark as well as white VII'
Video as well as chalk, 32 mins 47 secs
© Neville Gabie

About the Jerwood Drawing Prize


Characteristics of The Jerwood Drawing Prize are:
  • The Open Exhibition - a platform for drawing practitioners to showcase their move amongst other leading contemporary artists inward this field
  • Selection - Selected from master fine art industrial plant based on the move equally 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, Saturday & Lord's Day from 10am–3pm 
Nearest Tube stations: Southwark, London Bridge or Borough

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