Takeaway?Oil on canvas, 238 x 209cm
Overall Award Winner 2020
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown’s practice holds a particular focus on the domestic home. Through her paintings she explores how we interact with space, both physically and emotionally, and consider the domestic home as our ‘natural environment’, an ever-evolving habitat which we have adapted to both merge with and coexist beside.
Pippa enjoys the fluid and visceral behaviour of paint, particularly oil. Often applied impasto, directly from the tube, she handles the paint with a sculptural approach. Using materiality and gesture, she aims to create a tangible and conscious perception of space.
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown’s practice holds a particular focus on the domestic home. Through her paintings she explores how we interact with space, both physically and emotionally, and consider the domestic home as our ‘natural environment’, an ever-evolving habitat which we have adapted to both merge with and coexist beside.
Pippa enjoys the fluid and visceral behaviour of paint, particularly oil. Often applied impasto, directly from the tube, she handles the paint with a sculptural approach. Using materiality and gesture, she aims to create a tangible and conscious perception of space.
Mirrored-handrail-paintingsRepurposed mirrors and bamboo plywood, 30 x 30cm
Sculpture Award Winner 2020
Meg Shirayama
Geometry, form, and colour are the cornerstones of Meg Shirayama artistic practice. The artist was born in Japan and brought up in the UK and through her work explores the universal language of geometrics that can be experienced mutually across various perceptual standpoints. Meg draws inspiration from elemental geometries found in everyday utilitarian objects. Taking interest in the clarity of basic forms, economic design and repurposing possibilities by shifting the perspective. Her work consists of objects rendered in wood, partially painted in luminous colours. She uses painted areas to draw attention to the shapes, contrasting the surfaces between painted and unpainted to signify that element can be arranged in different angles. By employing the visual language utilised in Minimal Abstraction, Meg blurs the boundary of art and applied object by questioning the purpose of the object through its appearance and presentation.
Meg Shirayama
Geometry, form, and colour are the cornerstones of Meg Shirayama artistic practice. The artist was born in Japan and brought up in the UK and through her work explores the universal language of geometrics that can be experienced mutually across various perceptual standpoints. Meg draws inspiration from elemental geometries found in everyday utilitarian objects. Taking interest in the clarity of basic forms, economic design and repurposing possibilities by shifting the perspective. Her work consists of objects rendered in wood, partially painted in luminous colours. She uses painted areas to draw attention to the shapes, contrasting the surfaces between painted and unpainted to signify that element can be arranged in different angles. By employing the visual language utilised in Minimal Abstraction, Meg blurs the boundary of art and applied object by questioning the purpose of the object through its appearance and presentation.
TreeC-type print photography, 100 x 129cm
Photography Award Winner 2020
Sine Zheng
Sine Zheng is a photographer based in London. After completing a BFA degree at Parsons School of Design, the New School of Arts in New York, she continues on Photography MA degree in Royal College of Arts now. Her work focus on the relationship between nature and human, questioning the modernization impact to our planet and has been exhibited in America, Europe and China.
Sine Zheng
Sine Zheng is a photographer based in London. After completing a BFA degree at Parsons School of Design, the New School of Arts in New York, she continues on Photography MA degree in Royal College of Arts now. Her work focus on the relationship between nature and human, questioning the modernization impact to our planet and has been exhibited in America, Europe and China.
Ghost BoxSalvaged brass, tactical maps, scores on paper, wires, map pins, electronics, audio, instrument case, 579 x 365cm
New Media Award Winner 2020
Steve Parker
Steve Parker is an artist, musician, and curator living in Austin, Texas. He creates communal, democratic work to examine history, systems, and behaviour. Steve’s projects include elaborate civic rituals for humans, animals, and machines; listening sculptures modelled after obsolete surveillance tools; and cathartic transportation symphonies for operators of cars, pedicabs, and bicycles. He works with salvaged musical instruments, amateur choirs, marching bands, birders, pedicab fleets, urban bat colonies, honeybee hives, and flocks of grackles.
Steve Parker
Steve Parker is an artist, musician, and curator living in Austin, Texas. He creates communal, democratic work to examine history, systems, and behaviour. Steve’s projects include elaborate civic rituals for humans, animals, and machines; listening sculptures modelled after obsolete surveillance tools; and cathartic transportation symphonies for operators of cars, pedicabs, and bicycles. He works with salvaged musical instruments, amateur choirs, marching bands, birders, pedicab fleets, urban bat colonies, honeybee hives, and flocks of grackles.
Wanderer beneath the Sea of CloudOil on canvas, 100 x 76cm
Choice Award Winner 2020
James Hayes
Based in the South West of Ireland, James Hayes is a painter, illustrator and qualified architect. His default state of being is creating images as a way of making sense of the world around him, through a practice centred around oil painting and pencil drawing. He is interested in the way in which our experience of places and the relationships we forge with them exist as an ever evolving, jumbled and reciprocal flow across the material, immaterial and emotional realms. His work is often an exploration of this complex relationship between self and surroundings, attempting to reveal this quiet unseen interplay.
James Hayes
Based in the South West of Ireland, James Hayes is a painter, illustrator and qualified architect. His default state of being is creating images as a way of making sense of the world around him, through a practice centred around oil painting and pencil drawing. He is interested in the way in which our experience of places and the relationships we forge with them exist as an ever evolving, jumbled and reciprocal flow across the material, immaterial and emotional realms. His work is often an exploration of this complex relationship between self and surroundings, attempting to reveal this quiet unseen interplay.
Aren't you just exhausted by the same old shit?Bricks, clay, wood, aluminium, motor and batteries, 100 x 100 x 150cm
Highly Commended 2020
Anna Davies
Anna Davies is a UK based sculptor. She records highly personal subjects and events with each specific work exploring a particular burden or thought she has had as a result of being a millennial woman and having to respond to the shifting parameters of moral, sexual, ethical or gender-related codes of behaviour. Strong themes that reoccur in Anna’s practice are sex (specifically casual sex) and the implications of this on women. Though young women often get labelled as crude or accused of oversharing for discussing sex, I hope to start conversations about sex that could destigmatise these topics.
Anna uses domestic objects in her sculptures in relation to gender and domesticity in order to directly illustrate the gender roles we feel pressured to fit into today. Inspired by object-oriented philosophy, she finds it important to think about the relationship and distinction between the object and the human.
Anna Davies
Anna Davies is a UK based sculptor. She records highly personal subjects and events with each specific work exploring a particular burden or thought she has had as a result of being a millennial woman and having to respond to the shifting parameters of moral, sexual, ethical or gender-related codes of behaviour. Strong themes that reoccur in Anna’s practice are sex (specifically casual sex) and the implications of this on women. Though young women often get labelled as crude or accused of oversharing for discussing sex, I hope to start conversations about sex that could destigmatise these topics.
Anna uses domestic objects in her sculptures in relation to gender and domesticity in order to directly illustrate the gender roles we feel pressured to fit into today. Inspired by object-oriented philosophy, she finds it important to think about the relationship and distinction between the object and the human.
Love is (Lil Beast on the Block)Oil on canvas with modular frame, 180 x 210cm
Highly Commended 2020
India Nielsen
Working across a variety of media India Nielsen’s practice is primarily concerned with language as an imperfect communicative, emotive and representational tool.
Fragments of letters, words and image are carved into paint and shaved out of fur to create animistic and mystical figures, swiped from pop culture, art historical books or transcribed from memory.
India Nielsen
Working across a variety of media India Nielsen’s practice is primarily concerned with language as an imperfect communicative, emotive and representational tool.
Fragments of letters, words and image are carved into paint and shaved out of fur to create animistic and mystical figures, swiped from pop culture, art historical books or transcribed from memory.
The Love I FeelC-Type print on aluminium, 91 x 61cm
Highly Commended 2020
Tatjana Panek
Tatjana Panek is a French/German artist based in London. She has completed a BA and MA in Photography at the London College of Communication, UAL.
Tatjana is intrigued by the relationship between two human beings; the couple. Which becomes a singular being, a world of its own, it is not a static state. It is complex and an ever growing, ever changing organism.
Tatjana Panek
Tatjana Panek is a French/German artist based in London. She has completed a BA and MA in Photography at the London College of Communication, UAL.
Tatjana is intrigued by the relationship between two human beings; the couple. Which becomes a singular being, a world of its own, it is not a static state. It is complex and an ever growing, ever changing organism.
Self-portrait No. 4Oil, acrylic, and paper on canvas, 50 x 70cm
Highly Commended 2020
Naoki Yamaji
Naoki Yamaji is a Japanese artist currently based in the Netherlands. He seeks to mix Japanese and Western culture through the medium of acrylic and oil paint. His works explore the growing redundancy the human race experiences as our societies become increasingly mechanised, and how excessive capitalism moves to replace mankind with technology.
Naoki Yamaji
Naoki Yamaji is a Japanese artist currently based in the Netherlands. He seeks to mix Japanese and Western culture through the medium of acrylic and oil paint. His works explore the growing redundancy the human race experiences as our societies become increasingly mechanised, and how excessive capitalism moves to replace mankind with technology.