Winners 2018

Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2018 Winner
Stephen Doyle

Stephen Doyle is a fine artist from Cork whose work focuses on the Queer community and its interaction with the rest of society. Stephen’s artwork entry, Man and Subject, is a discussion on how queer men are redefining male culture. The piece directly asks the viewer to consider which figure they deem to be ‘the man’.

Man and Subject
Stephen Doyle
Painting on Canvas, metal wire
100 x 130 x 10cm

Sculpture Prize Winner 2018
Lauren Wilson

Lauren Wilson is from the UK and received a BA in Fine Art from University College Falmouth, then a MFA in Sculpture from Slade School of Art in 2014. She looks for quietly political moments to sculpt into a new context; a horse diving from a great height, an ivory miniature of Venus, the mysterious appearance of a donut on Mars. She narrates digressions from these points, tangents directed by obsession, intuition and finding pattern in what otherwise might be seen as random. Her artwork entry, Synthetic Reproduction of Paranoia, is a dissection of a meeting she had with a fortune teller at Ridley Road Market in Dalston, London.

Synthetic Reproduction of Paranoia
Lauren Wilson
Jesmonite, Steel, Stone Effect Paint
30 x 35cm

Employee Choice 2018
Andy Farr

Andy Farr is a UK based Artist who studied for an MA in Painting at the University of Coventry. His practice most recently has focused on moving from the third to the first person. His current collection of artworks are an exploration of the artist's memories and experiences of growing up and focus on the emotional memory in recalling a place or situation. Andy’s semi-biographical artwork entry touches on memories of his father developing bipolar disorder when he was about 12 and the affect this had on his father’s behaviour and on his family. The piece explores Andy’s emotional memories of his father’s illness, invoking emotions in the viewer that encourages them to confront their own very personal experience in other ways.

Self Portrait
Andy Farr
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
180 x 180cm

East London Artist Prize 2018
Goia Mujalli

Goia Mujallli trained at the Royal College of Art and Slade School of Fine Art, and explores ideas of cultural and geographic identity through painting. Drawing from her past in Rio de Janeiro, these ideas are investigated through abstraction by exploring colour, transparencies, movement and erasures, using brush marks as motifs. The use of erasures translates into a study of doubt in everyday life. Treating decision-making in a manner that relates strongly and folds back into her process of painting. These erased marks also echo a print aspect in the work, which investigates the idea of the body becoming a mechanical process.

On Wednesday's Ladies Wear Pink
Goia Mujalli
Acrylic on Canvas
150 x 100cm