2010
OUR WINNERS
CHRIS GOLLE | PAINTING WINNER
Wimbledon College of Art, London (BA Fine Art Painting)
"My work aims to explore and distort the boundary between physical and internal spaces. I present everyday scenes gone slightly askew, hovering somewhere between reality and fantasy, and where a strange familiarity and quiet stillness combine to produce a sense of the uncanny."
MOSES POWERS | PHOTOGRAPHY WINNER
"One of my favourite past times is rummaging around in junk markets, looking for treasure. I love the feeling of discovering something that has its own sense of history.
This inspires me to make work using objects that hold symbolic value, giving them a new lease of life, creating an atmosphere in a new context. Making art allows me to express ideas in a visual way where words would normally fail me."
CARLOS FRANKLIN | MIXED MEDIA WINNER
Los Andes University. Bogota, Colombia (BA in Fine Arts Specialised in digital and time-based arts)
'My work is about foreignness: being abroad, being out of the disciplines borders, being peripheral. I’m inspired often by the meanings of traveling: travel as evasion and/or escape, travel to meet and to reach other cultures -at the same time the subconscious refuses the own one."
THE PAINTING FINALISTS
ABIGAIL BOX | PAINTING FINALIST
’THE GREAT ESCAPE’
Camberwell College of Art (BA Fine Art)
"My paintings are based on collages I construct using found imagery. In painting these strange and sometimes unsettling scenarios with an increasingly experimental approach to the manipulation of colour, space and composition, I strive to highlight the wondrous ability paint has to describe, suggest and invent whilst establishing an ambiguous narrative that I hope will evoke curiosity in the viewer. "
DAVID CRUMP | PAINTING FINALIST
’MUM’S LOAD’
Camberwell College of Art (BA Fine Art)
“I wanted to make a honest interpretation of my mum, concerning the themes I deal with. I wanted to show her depressive state, exposing her tied life, and hinting at her sexual frustration I feel I see similar images to this on the internet , on many dating sites that expose people desperation and sexual honesty.”
DEBBIE LOCKE | PAINTING FINALIST
’DIALGUE XIII’
University of the Arts, Wimbledon (BA Fine Art)
"This work was created by a kinetic drawing installation comprising 3 wall-based drawing machines, communicating with each other via Bluetooth technology. Each machine reacted to a message sent from the other machines, detailing the length and direction of a line drawn, creating a cycle that ran continuously for 5 days.”
LEONARDO MAGNANI | PAINTING FINALIST
’CITY FLY’
Academy of Fine Art (BA Fine Art)
“In the years prior his degree he participates to various working/living spaces in the tuscan countryside. During that residency he commenced an investigation on the surrounding landscapes. The various aspects of these landscapes become the central theme of his work. In that period it is mainly a dal vero approach to natures elements. After his degree, he travels through Mexico. In 2008 he takes part in the Naturalita progetto residenza studio curated by the art historian Susanna Buricchi. The period spent in the studio house nearby Poppi (AR) lasts 8 months. In this period his work finds more sinthetis and poetic definition. ”
CHRIS GOLLE | PAINTING FINALIST
’BETWEEN WORLDS’
University of the Arts, Wimbledon (BA Fine Art)
"Between Worlds continues the theme in my work of liminality. I was also interested in how forests can appear both attractive and unsettling: the ambiguous pathway leads your eye through the woods, yet there is something sinister about the strange branchless trees and ominous shadows. .”