Nigel Greenwood Prize 2019
We are thrilled to announce that the nominated artists for this year’s prize are:
It is a phenomenal short-list. We are really honoured. Congratulations to each artist. And thank you to our anonymous nominators. The winner will be announced at the end of November.
Thank you to Hannah Rickards for these images and the lovely note,
‘… settling in very well here – it is very, very peaceful. Beautiful weather today, I have been sitting on the steps of the studio watching the crows wheel around.’
We were really pleased to recently host Paloma Bosquê, winner of the 2017 NG Art prize. Born in Brazil, she lives and works in Sao Paulo and the residency was her first time in Scotland. Paloma was awarded the prize for her wish to ‘contaminate’ her sculptures with the materials of the Scottish Borders. Paloma kindly shared with us some images of work made during the residency.
The Nigel Greenwood Prize is delighted to announce that Hannah Rickards and Ima-Abasi Okon have been awarded this year’s Nigel Greenwood artist residencies.
Hannah Rickards receives the Nigel Greenwood Art Prize (3 months/£5000) and Ima-Abasi Okon received the Nigel Greenwood Research Prize (1 month/£1000).
Judges’ statement:
‘The residency is set in such bucolic surroundings that it naturally lends itself to artists interested in the landscape. The history of the landscape has traditionally been a pictorial one however, so what excites us about inviting Hannah Rickards and Ima-Abasi Okon receiving, respectively, the Nigel Greenwood Art Prize and the Nigel Greenwood Research Prize, is that both artists expressed an interest in aural or sonic space, as much as the visual.
We are delighted to select Hannah Rickards as her work, as stated by the artist, is involved with the possibility of thinking oneself into a landscape. In her proposal she put forward some really beautiful ideas in terms of how the experience of being at Gordon Burns’ cottage for a long period of time might influence/translate to language, sound and gesture in her artworks.
And we are delighted to support Ima-Abasi Okon. Spending time at Gordon Burns’ cottage will give her an opportunity to quietly focus on her work as she is approaching the beginnings of a new body of work. In her statement she talked about ‘exploring ways to maximise magic as both an aesthetic and a sculptural act’ and we are really intrigued to see how the context of this residency might influence this research process.’
The judges’ were greatly impressed by the calibre and diversity of the short-list and congratulations goes to all of the nominated artists.
A huge thank you to our brilliant judges and nominators for their time and invaluable support:
Judges 2018:
Oliver Basciano, International Editor, Art Review
Stella Bottai, Curator, Stanley Picker Gallery
Simon Groom, Director, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Sam McEwan, Artist
Stephanie Straine, Curator, Modern Art Oxford
Nominators 2018:
Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot, Curators, nominated Mark Barker
Louisa Buck, writer and journalist at The Art Newspaper, Alex McNamee
Rebecca Heald, Curator, nominated Freya Douglas-Morris
Sarah McCrory, Director of Goldsmiths CCA, nominated Ima-Abasi Okon
Sally Shaw, Director of Firstsite, nominated Hannah Rickards
There will be a prize event in June, details to follow ….
Ben Rivers
Ben Rivers, There is a Happy Land Further Away, 2015, digital video, 20 mins
The EYE Art & Film Prize: Hito Steyerl – Ben Rivers – Wang Bing
EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
24 March – 27 May 2018
Maeve Brennan
Brennan’s new film Listening in the Dark opens at Jerwood Space, London SE1, on Thursday 5th April, 6.30-8.30pm. Screening as part of Jerwood/FVU Awards 2018: Unintended Consequences.
Maeve Brennan, Listening in the Dark, 2018
We are hugely excited that it is that time where we can announce the nominees and judges for this year’s Nigel Greenwood Art Prize.
The nominees for the Nigel Greenwood Art Prize 2018 are:
Ima-Abasi Okon
Mark Barker
Alex McNamee
Freya Douglas-Morris
Hannah Rickards
UNTITLED: Art on the Conditions of Our Time
New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
Put Something in the Air: The E-s-s-e-n-t-i-a-l Mahalia Jackson Blowing Up
DJ Pollie Pop’s Chopped and Screwed Rendition of Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries — Military-Entertainment Complex Dub [Jericho Speak Life!], 2017
Polished brass, acoustic sound underlay, artists’ jewellery, OSB, tulip, red mahogany polyurethane varnish
Installation view, Southard Reid, 2015
Chorus of One, oil on linen over board, 2017
Fake Ham in a Fake Rock,HDTV, cement and foam, 2017
Installation view Modern Art Oxford, 2014
The judges for the Nigel Greenwood Art Prize 2018 are:
Oliver Basciano, International Editor, Art Review
Stella Bottai, Curator, Stanley Picker Gallery
Simon Groom, Director, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Sam McEwan, Artist
Stephanie Straine, Curator, Modern Art Oxford
A huge thank you to our anonymous nominators (to be revealed after the announcement of the prize).
And an eternally heartfelt thank you to our funders who make the residency awards possible.
The winner will be announced on Monday March 26th.
Past awardees and nominees news:
Congratulations to Maeve Brennan whose The Drift has been nominated for the Tiger Shorts Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Rafal Zajko is very busy. On now is ….
Acts of Translation (curated by Eliel Jones)
March 7–May 15, 2018
Etel Adnan, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Beverly Buchanan, John Divola, Lubaina Himid, Hassan Khan, Jumana Manna, Helen Marten, Sliman Mansour, Alice Neel, Lydia Ourahmane, Walid Raad, Malick Sidibé, Mounira Al Solh, Kenneth Tam, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sharif Waked, Rafal Zajko
Upcoming are shows in Prague, Berlin, London and:
UNPUTDOWNABLE
A solo exhibition at The White Cubicle Toilet Gallery.
Thursday March 15th 9pm – 3am at the Queen Adelaide, 483 Hackney Road, London, E2 9ED
with Entertainment from F.L.E.U.R. / Lindsey Mendick Aka Rick Steinz / Sponge Bob no pants/ Lea Collet and Marios Stamatis / Biggie and Babe / Zoee and the Special Guest Ally of Ally Capellino
Ben Rivers in conversation as part of the Open City Documentary Festival
September 10th, 3pm
‘The relationships between sound, music and image define the meaning and message of any film, be it documentary or fiction. But while the picture is carefully considered in the shoot and edit, sound – and later, music – is often left to fend for itself.
Using The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers as a case study, Larry Sider from the School of Sound hosts a conversation between director Ben Rivers and sound designer Philippe Ciompi, who will explain their working relationship and the methods they used to effectively integrate image, sound and music.’
Presented in partnership with The School of Sound
SOUND // MUSIC // IMAGE WITH BEN RIVERS AND PHILIPPE CIOMPI
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2017 – 15:00
FESTIVAL HUB: BARGEHOUSE
£5
Agnes Scherer’s absolutely wonderful and UNMISSABLE Cupid and the Animals is being performed at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne on Sept 7. If you are anywhere near, GO!
Cupid and the Animals … on the Rhine
Donnerstag/Thursday
7. September 2017, 20h
Museum Ludwig Köln
Eine Oper von/An opera by
Agnes Scherer
Mit Musik von/With music by
Camillo Grewe
mit/with
Soya Arakawa
Francisco Aguilera Càceres
José Antonio Aguilera Càceres
Lukas Goersmeyer
Fabienne Kirschke
Katrin Sons
Michael Taylor
und/and
Edmée Brell
Tom Hardwick-Allan
Kurt Heuvens
Lotte Maiwald
Maya Shirakawa
Thank you to Charles Saumarez Smith for a kind mention in his excellent blog of the exhibition booklet produced for the recent Nigel Greenwood Inc Ltd show at Chelsea Space. Relieved that Mr Smith found the booklet not ‘dross’ but a ‘nice surprise’.
“Nigel represented an era when gallery owners were able to be more interested in the art than the money. In an interview, he claims that the contemporary art world consisted of 150 people ‘in the whole enterprise worldwide’”.
Thank you Art Review
Paloma Bosquê has been announced as the winner of the 2017 Nigel Greenwood Art Prize. The São Paulo-based Brazilian artist will undertake a three month residency at a cottage and studio in the Scottish Borders, and will receive an honorarium of £5,000.
Bosquê was chosen by a four-person jury from a shortlist which included Glasgow-based Rachel Adams, Chester-based Jacqueline Bebb, Vilnius-based Augustas Serapinas and Edinburgh-based Hannah Tuulikki. The 2017 jury included Helen Legg, director of Spike Island, Bristol; curator Tamsin Dillon; artist Yuko Shiraishi; and Nicola Lees, director of 80WSE Gallery, New York. Each artist was nominated by a selector whom remained anonymous during the judging process. Bosquê was put forward by ArtReview‘s international editor, Oliver Basciano.
Bosquê currently has a solo show at the Pavilhão Preto at Palácio Pimenta, Lisbon, and is included in the Coimbra Biennial this coming November. The prize is named in memory of the late gallerist Nigel Greenwood, often cited as a key figures in the development of the London art scene, and is coordinated by his estate. Previous winners include Ben Rivers and Katie Schwab.
Congratulations to the winner of the Nigel Greenwood Art Prize 2017:
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Confidants
Inverso Duplo
Paloma Bosquê was born in Brazil and lives and works in Sao Paulo. The judges were impressed by her ‘elegant, poetic and romantic’ work and intrigued by her wish to ‘contaminate’ her sculptures, deeply informed by her Sao Paulo context, with the materials of the borders.
And congratulations to Jacqueline Bebb who was awarded the Nigel Greenwood Research Prize.
Thank you to our wonderful judges:
Helen Legg, Director of Spike Island
Tamsin Dillon, Curator
Yuko Shiraishi, Artist
Nicola Lees, Director 80 WSE
And thank you to our nominators (each year we invite five people from across the art world to anonymously put forward an artist, the names are announced only once the winner has been selected):
Simon Groom, Director, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
nominated Hannah Tuulikki
Oliver Basciano, Editor (International) and writer, Art Review
nominated Paloma Bosquê
Stephanie Straine, Curator, Museum of Modern Art Oxford
nominated Rachel Adams
Joe Fletcher Orr, Artist and founder of Cactus Gallery
nominated Jacqueline Bebb
Stella Bottai, Curator, Stanley Picker Gallery
nominated Augustas Serapinas
We are thrilled to announce the short-list for the Nigel Greenwood Art Prize 2017
Rachel Adams
b.1985, Newcastle, lives and works in Glasgow
Jacqueline Bebb
b.1977 in Chester. Lives and works in Chester, UK, and Portland, US
Paloma Bosque
Lives and works in Sao Paulo
Augustas Serapinas
b.1990 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Lives and works in Vilnius
Hannah Tuulikki
b.1982. Lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland
Nomination process. Each year 5 anonymous nominators, drawn from across the art world (not including commercial galleries), are invited to put forward an artist. The nominators are announced once the winner is selected.
We are hugely honoured to announce that the judges for the Nigel Greenwood Art Prize 2017 are:
Helen Legg, Director of Spike Island, Bristol
Tamsin Dillon, independent curator
Yuko Shiraishi, artist
Nicola Lees, Director 80WSE Gallery
Matthew Higgs, Curator and Director White Columns
The Drift
Maeve Brennan’s new film The Drift will be showing at Chisenhale Gallery March 31st to June 4th.
Opening March 30th, 6.30-8.30pm.
Full details here.
Congratulations to Agnes Scherer and the unbelievably talented team involved in Cupid and the Animals, particular mention to Tramps who staged the two deservedly sold-out events.
Unique, beautiful, funny, strange, whimsical, moving and utterly brilliant. The NG Prize are so honoured to have supported it and look forward to future presentations.
Truly wonderful.
Cupid and the Animals
An operetta by Agnes Scherer
Music by Camillo Drewe and performing artists
The night of Friday January 27 2017
The afternoon of Saturday January 28 2017
TRAMPS offsite
Unit 9I
133 Copeland Rd
London SE15 3SN
Camden Arts Centre, London
Wednesday 14 December, 7.00 – 8.45pm
To launch his first monograph Ways of Worldmaking, artist Ben Rivers and design and art collective åbäke discuss the book with Sophie Williamson, Programme Curator: Exhibitions at Camden Arts Centre. This book has been made in conjunction with Rivers’ recent exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, Earth Needs More Magicians with new essays by writers Ed Halter, Melissa Gronland, Renee Gladman and Andréa Picard, alongside transcripts and research material. This talk will be followed by a book signing.
Talk: 7.00 – 7.30pm
Book launch: 7.30 – 8.45pm
The Nile Set
A new body of work made by Agnes Scherer, in collaboration with Paul DD Smith, curated by Real Positive at COFA Contemporary, opening 16.11.2016 / 12h until 20.11.2016.
Thank you Katie Schwab, winner of the 2016 Nigel Greenwood Art Prize for sending us a gorgeous present of things made during the residency. Katie was selected by the judges for a proposal to explore local weaving traditions and she managed in her ambition to get a loom ‘up and running’. We’re proud to have been able to host Katie and delighted that she had such a productive time.
Weaving sample, Katie Schwab, 2016
World of Interiors, Katie Schwab and Alexis Lagimodiere-Grise, 2016