Jerwood Contemporary Makers Prize
Committee – Clare Page and Harry Richardson are a collaborative practice called Committee. They work together to assemble, adapt and juxtapose discarded objects, the leftovers from the retail world. Their signature Kebab Lamps are ‘totems' for today’s material culture, painstakingly constructed by skewering different objects together to create standing lights.
Linda Florence – Creating customised, tactile and highly decorative surfaces, Linda deals with our messy and complicated world in her work. She is known for her application of ‘fugitive’ materials in her works: sugar, rust, iron filings and biscuits, and as a designer specialises in bespoke hand made wallpapers.
Julia Lohmann – Inspired by flotsam, jetsam and the ever-increasing masses of rubbish floating in the oceans of the world, Julia will create a series of objects made from porcelain, leather, rubber and plastic for this exhibition. Working with a zoologist, she will 'seed' them with tiny marine organisms called Bryozoa to create intricate, lace-like surface patterns on the objects.
Geoffrey Mann – Through art, craft and design in his work, Geoffrey Mann has created a new hybrid practice. Using a combination of cinematic stop-motion techniques, CAD modeling, rapid prototyping and traditional hand-craftsmanship, his work challenges the known boundaries of glass kiln casting fabrication. For the first time, he will present two works concurrently, one hand-crafted and one produced virtually by a glass factory in the Czech Republic.
Rachael Matthews – Co-founder of Cast Off Knitting Club, Rachael Matthews works with other artists, knitters and collectives to organise events that are always collaborative, socially interactive and unique. For the exhibition, she will create an X-Factor style knitting experience, inviting knitters to present their half-made, problem pieces to a panel of artists who will decide whether or not they are worth taking on to complete.
Claire Norcross - A textile graduate who until recently has been known as lighting designer for Habitat, Claire Norcross is inspired by organic forms and is passionate about paper and origami. Her concept for the exhibition focuses on the light source being central to the sculptural form of her works. Using energy saving bulbs at the centre of her design, she will create huge, bespoke and highly crafted paper lights inspired by the geometric structures within nature.
Ismini Samanidou - weaving Ismini is a textile designer and artist working with woven cloth. She is fascinated by the construction methods of woven fabrics and by the way textiles can exist within an architectural space. Her work is mainly woven on a computerised jacquard loom, and will create her piece for the exhibition on a special large size loom in North Carolina. The finished piece will be a 3m high walk-through installation inspired by the history of the Jerwood Space building.
I will be documenting the process of creating two new pieces of work for the exhibition in June in the upcoming months.
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