The Winners and Shortlisted Artists for the Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize 2018
The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize offers an expectional opportunity for students currently in the final year of their undergraduate study within the United Kingdom. The first prize is a £20,000 fellowship with a 12-month studio space in the Woon Tai Jee Studio, with runner-up prizes of £9,000 and £6,000
This year, we were delighted to announce the winners of the Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize at the Opening of the Woon Gallery of Asian Art at Northumbria University. The Woon Gallery of Asian Art contains rare oriental and contemporary art from The Woon Foundation Collection, including contemporary pieces from Picasso, Hirst and Warhol and introduce a new dynamic resource for teaching, research and public engagement at Northumbria and further positioning the University at the heart of the cultural sector in the region.
1st Prize
Woon Tai Jee Art Fellowship: Kara Chin
2nd Prize
Lim Ai Fang Art Prize: Rebecca Thomson
Joint 3rd Prize
Cheong Kam Hee Art Prize: Isaac Moss and Sebastian Sochan
Judges:
Professor Dean Hughes, Head of Department (Arts) Northumbria UniversityAlessandro Vincentelli, Curator of Exhibitions and Research, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Kathryn Brame, Engagement and Development Coordinator, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
Joy Labinjo, Artist and recipient of The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize 2017
The work of the shortlisted artists is currently on display in Gallery North, University Gallery. The University Gallery is the home of the Gallery North and the Woon Gallery of Asian Art. Please visit the collection, opening hours 10.00 - 16.00, Tuesday - Saturday.
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Kara Chin - 1ST PRIZE: WINNER OF THE WOON TAI JEE ART FELLOWSHIP
Kara works across a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, amateur robotics, animation, sound, and horticulture, often combined in large scale, multi-sensory installations.
Discover moreKimberley Cookey-Gam
Using crochet as a communicative medium with aspects of video, performance, sound and heat, Kimberley explores topics ranging from solitude to tradition in African cultures.
Discover moreHarley Kuyck- Cohen
Harley Kuyck-Cohen studies Art at Stroud College of Art and graduated from BA Fine Art, Sculpture from The Slady School of Fine Art.
Discover moreIsaac Moss - JOINT 3RD PRIZE: CHEONG KAM HEE ART PRIZE
Isaac's work is an exploration of the relationship between image and language, using the mediums of painting and printmaking from a conceptual and material standpoint.
Discover moreRonan Porter
Ronan's work is contemporary, combining disciplines: between print and painting, illustration and fine art, comic books and portraiture, installation and traditional painting
Discover moreJosephine Rock
Josephine Rock's interdisciplinary practice encompasses sculpture, film, performance, text, and photography. Her work 'Fully Mad And Completely Credible' explores how our sense of self is fabricated via a network of objects, ideas and experiences.
Discover moreSebastian Sochan - JOINT 3RD PRIZE: CHEONG KAM HEE ART PRIZE
Sebastian's instinct for materials and emotional responses play a crucial role in how his work comes together, leading to an uncertainty in whether the work is a sculpture, painting, drawing, object, textile, installation or an exploration of space.
Discover moreEmily Stollery
Emily's sculptural practice is led by the seductive properties of materials and her recent work 'Sharing is Caring' brings together two very different strains of making; steam bent wood and ceramic forms.
Discover moreRebecca Thomson - 2ND PRIZE: LIM AI FANG ART PRIZE
Rebecca’s work Pure Honey focussed on specifically curated shopping trips where the transactions are printed as poetry. Within this work there is space for discussion about the confessional nature of art and poetry, reflecting the artist’s aim to, ‘romanticise overlooked relics from everyday life into works of fine art
Discover moreKatie Watson
Katie's current practice examines the abstract qualities of banal forms in contemporary culture, the universal language of visual information, and how this is interpreted and processed.
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