Marmite Prize presents The Marmite Prize for Painting IV
28 June 2013 to 20 July 2013
Wednesday to Saturday 12-6
Private View Thursday 27th June 6 - 8.30pm
The Marmite Prize for Painting IV
Tannery Arts
Unit 12 Rich Estate, Crimscott Street
SE1 5TE
London
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The Marmite Prize for Painting is a young, nomadic prize that is rapidly establishing itself as the alternative John Moores, championing a wider range of contemporary painting. Marmite Prize IV showcases 32 artists, selected from almost 850 entries by representatives from each of the galleries of the tour. The winners were chosen by this year’s judging panel Dawn Mellor, Marta Marce, Tim Stoner and Marmite III winner Iain Andrews. The winner, Brian Cheeswright, will receive the specially commissioned ‘marmite’ made and donated by distinguished artist Richard Wentworth. Runners up Dan Roach and James Metsoja both received a pat on the back. There will also be a visitors’ choice winner to be announced at the close of the exhibition. (Vote for your favourite now!)
Marmite IV is dedicated to 90s artist collective BANK, the exhibition hang informed by their seminal ‘Zombie Golf’ show: anonymous collective The Almighty were commissioned to make the installation, and in the spirit of competition their concept ‘Vampire Games’ attempts to upstage the paintings. The exhibition opened at Central Art Gallery in Tameside and toured to the Mackintosh Museum, The Glasgow School of Art; the Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge; and The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, before coming to Tannery Arts @ DRAWING ROOM, London, where the winner was announced.
Quotes
“The Marmite Prize (no relation to the yeast based spread) was launched in 2006, and has gone on to establish itself as an unconventional art prize – one that does not adhere to the zeitgeist or specific disciplines, encouraging everything from landscape paintings and sculptural portraits, abstracts and still lifes to be submitted. It is the only festival that can truly call itself ‘nomadic’ – a biennial event that takes the paintings to the people and regards giving the public access to the work as important as the prize itself.”
Sarah Walters, Manchester Evening News.
“Every year the Marmite Prize gains more entries and more attention. Last year’s winner Iain Andrews, was featured on the cover of a-n Magazine. What’s so special about this painting competition is that it is open to everyone. We have established artists alongside emerging talent. Today’s prizewinners really are the future stars of the art world."
Stephanie Moran, Marmite Prize Curator.
Notes to Editors
The Marmite Prize for Painting is a non-profit independent project established in 2006 by painters Marcus Cope and Stephanie Moran, it is run by painters for painters.
Every year the Marmite Prize is dedicated to a very good artist. This dedication influences the hang of the works. This year the dedicatee is former artist collective BANK.
The Marmite Prize for painting was first held at the Residence Gallery in Hackney in 2006, dedicated to Georg Baselitz all the works were exhibited upside down. The 2008 exhibition, held at studio1.1 in Shoreditch had an along the ceiling hang dedicated to Oliver Kossack. The 2010 prize, dedicated to Ida Appelbroog saw much of the work exhibited on free standing wooden structures, allowing the viewer to see both sides of the paintings.
The project aims to question the validity of art prizes that evaluate creative activity with the intention of assigning a monetary value to the ‘winning’ artwork. As an alternative to a cash prize, the winning painter takes away the marmite, an artist-made vessel, which is awarded by the judges in recognition of artistic excellence.
The Marmite Prize for Painting is in no way associated with a tasty yeast based food product called ‘Marmite’.
Contact
For press enquiries please contact Marcus Cope, [email protected] 07776 495 878
