The Jerwood Charitable Foundation and The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London have today released the short list of 54 artists for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008, which includes a first prize of �6,000 and a second prize of �3,000, and two student awards of �1,000 each.
The Jerwood Drawing Prize is the country�s leading award in drawing, and is the largest and longest running annual open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the UK. Established in 1996 as the annual Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition it was renamed the Jerwood Drawing Prize when the Jerwood Charitable Foundation became the principal sponsor in 2001.
2,537 entries by artists resident or domiciled in the UK were submitted for consideration by the selection panel of the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008. A short list of 54 artists have been selected for the exhibition by the following: Tony Bevan, Artist; Emma Dexter, Director of Exhibitions at Timothy Taylor Gallery, London & Editor of Vitamin D (Phaidon); and John McDonald, Art Critic of the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. The short list includes highly regarded, established artists as well as relative newcomers and students fresh from art school.
The short listed artists will show their nominated drawings in an exhibition at the Jerwood Space, London SE1 from 17th September to 26th October 2008. The awards will be announced at 7pm on Tuesday 16th September 2008. The exhibition will then tour the UK, to galleries in Cheltenham, Winchester and Bury St Edmunds.
Roanne Dods, Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, commented: "Over the last few years, drawing has been attracting more and more practitioners, audiences and critical interest. A combination of activities around the country have been contributing to this renaissance, and I am very proud of the part that the Jerwood Drawing Prize has had in this"
The 54 Artists short listed for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008 are:
Lucy Austin Gino Ballantyne Maria Lynch Richard Bateman Brass Art Darren Coffield Ben Coode-Adams Simon Crawford Jane Dalton Annabel Dover Hilary Ellis Nigel Frost Neville Gabie Jedediah Gainer Josephine Gallagher Slawec Gora Mary Griffiths Anne Guest Sue Heap Lia Anna Hennig Nicky Hoberman Michael John Hodder Chuya Ikeda Thorsten Knaub Sharon Leahy-Clark Simon Leahy-Clark Wayne Lucas Sean Maltby & Olly Rooks James Martelli Julie Masterton Hannah Murgatroyd Catharine Nicholson Jay Oliver Andrew Penketh Freya Pocklington Pippa Ridley Lizzie Rose Karen Russo Bruce Sharp Sarah Silverwood Charlotte Steel Joe Stokes Alan Stones Emma Talbot Tobias Teschner Dolly Thompsett Aline von der Assen Jonathan Waller Kate Walters R.A. Webb David Webb Jessica Wolfson
Notes to Editors
Background on the selection panel:
Tony Bevan is an Artist. Since studying at the Slade School of Fine Art, London (1974-76), Goldsmiths� College, University of London (1971-74) and Bradford School of Fine Art (1968-71), his largely figurative works have been exhibited widely throughout the UK, Europe, and the United States. He has been the subject of several monographs and his work is held in many collections, including Tate Modern and the National Portrait Gallery.
Emma Dexter is Director of Exhibitions at Timothy Taylor Gallery, London. From 2000 - 2007 she was a Senior Curator at Tate Modern, where she curated exhibitions by Pierre Huyghe 2006, Frida Kahlo 2005, Luc Tuymans and Bruce Nauman 2004, and curated Tate's first photography exhibition Cruel and Tender in 2003. In 2005 she wrote the introductory essay for Phaidon's Vitamin D - a survey of contemporary drawing. From 1992 - 2000 she was Director of Exhibitions at the ICA, London, where she mounted exhibitions by Marlene Dumas, Luc Tuymans, John Currin, Gary Hume, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Steve McQueen.
John McDonald is the Senior Art Critic for the Sydney Morning Herald, NSW Australia. His publications include monographs on Australian artists such as David Strachan, Ari Purhonen and Jeffrey Smart, and an essay to accompany Rex Dupain�s photographs in the book, �From Bondi to Broken Hill�. He has lectured throughout Australia, and taught Art History & Theory at the National Art School, Sydney. From 2002-04 he was director of Newcontemporaries, a non-commercial exhibition space at the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, committed to showing the work of new & emerging artists. Over the past three years, he has acted as publisher-in-chief of East-West Editions, and founding editor of the magazines, Australian Art Review, and East-West Arts.
The principal benefactor, the Jerwood Charitable Foundation is dedicated to responsible and imaginative funding of the visual and performing arts and other areas of human endeavour and excellence. It supports, among other things, the Jerwood Artists Platform, Jerwood Commissions at the Wapping Project, Jerwood Bank: The Siobhan Davies Dance Company. In October 2006, the Jerwood Visual Arts Series was launched at the Frieze Art Fair, and brings together Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Sculpture Prize, the Jerwood Photography Prize, Jerwood Applied Arts and the Jerwood Drawing Prize. Each exhibition creates an overview of current debate and practice in each of these fields.
The Jerwood Drawing Prize aims to promote and reward excellence and talent in contemporary drawing practice. It is organised by The Centre for Drawing, a Research Centre for the University of the Arts London at Wimbledon College of Art, under the direction of Professor Anita Taylor, and was established in 1994. The objectives of the Jerwood Drawing Prize are to promote the discipline of drawing; provide a forum for the exhibition of current drawing practice; situate this discourse within the educational context of an art school; gain knowledge and understanding about drawing in the UK through this �survey� of artists working in the discipline.
The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London is a University-wide Research Centre dedicated to exploration, research and discovery in the uses of drawing across all disciplines. It was originally established as the Centre for Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art in 2000 and designated in 2007 as a Research Centre encompassing all six Colleges of the University of the Arts London. Professor Anita Taylor was appointed full-time Director in July 2008. The Deputy Director is Professor Stephen Farthing, Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Drawing at the University.
Wimbledon College of Art provides foundation, undergraduate, taught postgraduate and research degree study opportunities, specialising in Fine Art and Theatre Design.There is a focus on drawing throughout all the academic activities of the College; Wimbledon is the host College for the University-wide Research Centre, The Centre for Drawing and the programming of the gallery at wimbledon college of art exemplify the focus on drawing within the College. Alumni of Wimbledon College of Art include Tony Cragg, Peter Doig and Raymond Briggs.
University of the Arts London is the first dedicated arts institution in the UK to achieve university status. A creative constellation lighting up 22 sites across London, from Oxford Street, to the Archway, to Hackney, Wimbledon and Southwark, the University brings together six of the world's most famous art and design colleges. They are:
� Camberwell College of Arts
� Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (incorporating Drama Centre and Byam Shaw School of Art)
� Chelsea College of Art and Design
� London College of Communication (formerly London College of Printing)
� London College of Fashion (incorporating Cordwainers).
� Wimbledon College of Art (formerly Wimbledon School of Art)
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