Threadneedle Prize 2012 - The Honor Winners

Threadneedle Prize Winner 2012
Ben Greener - "My Feet"

Last nighttime I was at the Mall Galleries for the Awards Dinner for the 5th Annual Threadneedle Prize 2012. There are 2 principal prizes - the Annual Threadneedle Prize (£30,000) and the Visitor's Choice Award (£10,000) as well as I guessed right as well as predicted ane of them!  The Prize was this twelvemonth won past times a human for the really get-go time.

I managed to learn myself as well as my photographic boob tube camera there, unfortunately the battery decided to rest at domicile inwards the charger.  However I did assist to choreograph a smashing photograph of the winner if I nation thus myself!

The tale of this prize is nigh 2 sculptors, 2 men named Ben as well as 2 men who took themselves at the starting indicate as well as the bailiwick affair for their entry to this competition. Many thank you lot to Liberty for the photos of the chaps who won prizes.

First the winners as well as thus the commentary.

Threadneedle Prize

Threadneedle Prize Winner 2012
My Feet past times Ben Greener 
Wood, Canvas, Glue, Tea & Coffee, 10x24x34,
£1500

The winner of the Threadneedle Prize 2012 is Ben Greener.  It's an incredibly innovative piece.

People's Choice Award Winner

This is the ane I predicted correctly - Robert Truscott won the People's Choice Award alongside Defeat.

Defeat past times Robert Truscott
Mixed Media, Plaster, Epoxy Putty, Material on Armature, 367x167x49cm,
£30,000

The sculpture is of soldiers after the Battle of Stalingrad leaving the city as prisoners of nation of war en road to the Soviet gulag.  This battle was ane of the bloodiest of the instant globe nation of war as well as 2 meg people died.  There a major storey nigh the aftermath equally good of the battle itself.  Here's what  Wikipedia had to nation on the subject

Out of the nearly 110,000 High German prisoners captured inwards Stalingrad, solely nigh 6,000 always returned. Already weakened past times disease, starvation as well as lack of medical aid during the encirclement, they were sent on decease marches (75,000 survivors died within iii months of capture) to prisoner camps as well as after to labour camps all over the Soviet Union. Some 35,000 were eventually sent on transports, of which 17,000 did non survive. Most died of wounds, illness (particularly typhus), cold, overwork, mistreatment, as well as malnutrition.

Robert Truscott as well as approximately of the figures inwards Defeat

On accepting the prize Robert said he would piece of job the coin to learn the sculpture form inwards bronze.  Robert talks nigh the materials as well as processes he uses inwards  blog post - Construction as well as Materials

Islington Backgardens inwards Winter Sunlight 

by Melissa Scott Miller

Two runners-up won £500 each.  These were:

• Dreaming 2 past times Threadneedle Prize 2012 - Shortlisted Artists)
• Islington Backgardens inwards Winter Sunlight past times Melissa Scott Miller

Commentary

Ben Greener is an fantabulous illustration of an creative somebody who is really focused as well as makes things hand off - too creating sculptures.  Ben has known he's an creative somebody from a really early on historic menstruation as well as has spent much of his life making art.  He started a score course of teaching as well as then, having started, realised he needed to only learn on as well as brand art.

He decided a piece dorsum that the Threadneedle Prize was the kind of prize which could render him alongside the working capital missive of the alphabet to allow him to learn a exercise going inwards a studio.  His master copy intention had been to render a consummate sculpture of his trunk - within out.  Which is how he came to create his Call for Entries for £30000 Threadneedle Prize 2012 03 Mar 2012

Threadneedle Prize 2012: Analysis of entries / selected artists 14 Jun 2012

Threadneedle Prize 2012: names of selected artists 21 Aug 2012 - this includes links to the websites of selected artists

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