CALL FOR ENTRIES Marshwood Arts Awards 2019 First launched over ten year’s ago, The Marshwood Arts Awards has become one of the most anticipated exhibitions in the South West. This year’s show will take place at Bridport Arts Centre from November 9th to December 7th and a total of seventeen artists/makers will be chosen to exhibit with the selectors below for what promises to be a unique and exciting exhibition. CATEGORY: PAINTING & DRAWING Selector: Dave White A Fine Arts graduate of the Liverpool John Moores University, Dave White is a contemporary British Artist who’s exhibitions include Shanghai, New York, Rotterdam, Miami and London, with solo exhibitions in London, Copenhagen and Los Angeles. In 2018 he created a hand painted Rhino for Tusk which was installed for a month on New Bond Street in London and auctioned at Christie’s alongside works by Harland Miller, Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk and The Chapman Brothers. davewhiteart.com CATEGORY: SCULPTURE Selector: Tania Kovats Tania Kovats is renowned for producing sculptures, large-scale installations and temporal works which explore our experience and understanding of landscape. Her work was the subject of a major solo exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh in 2014. She was Course Director, MA Drawing at UAL, Wimbledon and is Professor of Drawing at Bath Spa University. She is also the author of Drawing Water (2014) and ‘The Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing – The Primary Means of Expression (2017).
CATEGORY: PHOTOGRAPHY & DIGITAL MEDIA Selector: Brian Griffin Guardian Newspaper’s ‘Photographer of the decade’ in 1989 Brian Griffin has also been described as ‘the most unpredictable and influential British portrait photographer of the last decades’ by the British Journal of Photography and was feted as ‘one of Britain’s most influential photographers’ by the World Photography Organisation in 2015. He received a Honorary Doctorate from Birmingham City University and in 2016 was inducted into the Album Cover Hall Of Fame. www.briangriffin.co.uk
CATEGORY: APPLIED ARTS Selector: Kate Malone Recently featured as a judge on BBC2’s The Great Pottery Throw Down Kate Malone is known for creating large, complex sculptural vessels—though her works include everything from egg cups to building facades. Works are now in collections including at the Ashmolean Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Manchester Art Gallery. www.katemaloneceramics.com
CATEGORY: APPLIED ARTS Selector: John Makepeace John Makepeace started his career as a designer and maker in 1959. His passion for designing furniture for individual clients has grown steadily alongside his love of our indigenous woodlands and transforming their produce into artefacts for the future. Each becomes a landmark in the evolving story of fine craftsmanship in wood. www.johnmakepeacefurniture.com
To submit work for the 2019 Marshwood Arts awards visit
www.marshwoodawards.com/enter
The final date for receipt of applications is September 19th 2019. Tel. 01308 423031 Marshwood + August 2019 89