MaxMara Art Prize for Women in association with the Whitechapel
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MaxMara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with the Whitechapel is a biannual Art Prize for British-based female artists organized by the MaxMara fashion house and The Whitechapel Gallery
in London. The Prize includes a 6 month residency in Italy to realize an Art project which may be exhibited at The Whitechapel Gallery in London and it will be acquired by the Collezione Maramotti
(Italy)
.
The Judging pannel was chaired by Iwona Blazwick, and included Jennifer Higgie, Editor, Frieze; Victoria Miro, Gallerist; Turner Prize
winning artist, Gillian Wearing
; and collector, Anita Zabludowicz.
The other short listed Artists were Anne Hardy
, photographer, Donna Huddleston, water-colourist, Rachel Kneebone
, sculptor, and Anj Smith
, painter.
Margaret Salmon had a show at the Whitechapel in early 2007 which included the film 'Ninna Nanna' made during her residency.
Whitechapel Gallery
The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, it was founded in 1901 as one of the first publicly-funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in London, and it has a long...
in London. The Prize includes a 6 month residency in Italy to realize an Art project which may be exhibited at The Whitechapel Gallery in London and it will be acquired by the Collezione Maramotti
Collezione Maramotti
Collezione Maramotti is a private contemporary art collection in Reggio Emilia which has been opened to visitors since September 2007. Temporary shows and site-specific projects are organized alongside the permanent collection.- The collection :...
(Italy)
2006 prize
The first winner of the first MaxMara Art Prize in collaboration with the Whitechapel in 2006 was Margaret SalmonMargaret Salmon
Margaret Salmon is an American and British based film maker-artist. The work of this New York-born filmmaker is fuelled by references to the great realist tradition in film, be it the propaganda documentary of the Farm Security Administration in the United States, Italian neorealism, or French...
.
The Judging pannel was chaired by Iwona Blazwick, and included Jennifer Higgie, Editor, Frieze; Victoria Miro, Gallerist; Turner Prize
Turner Prize
The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
winning artist, Gillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing OBE RA is an English conceptual artist, one of the YBAs, and winner of the annual British fine arts award, The Turner Prize, in 1997. On 11 December 2007, Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London....
; and collector, Anita Zabludowicz.
The other short listed Artists were Anne Hardy
Anne Hardy
Anne Hardy is a British artist best known for her large-scale photographic work of unusual interior spaces. She completed an MA in photography at the Royal College of Art in 2000, having graduated from Cheltenham School of Art in 1993 with a degree in painting...
, photographer, Donna Huddleston, water-colourist, Rachel Kneebone
Rachel Kneebone
-Life and work:Rachel Kneebone was born in Oxfordshire. She graduated in 1997 with a First Class BA degree from U.W.E, Bristol. In 2004, Kneebone graduated with an MA in sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London....
, sculptor, and Anj Smith
Anj Smith
Anj Smith is an artist.Born in Kent in the UK, Smith studied in England at Slade School of Fine Art and Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London.Anj Smith creates paintings which are often executed on a small scale and highly detailed...
, painter.
Margaret Salmon had a show at the Whitechapel in early 2007 which included the film 'Ninna Nanna' made during her residency.
2007-09 prize
For the second edition of the prize the 5 short listed artists were: Yasmeen Al Awadi (b. 1978), Georgie Hopton (b. 1967), Melanie Jackson (b. 1968), Lisa Peachey (b. 1973) and Hannah Rickards (b. 1979). On January 2009, at the Italian embassy in London, Hannah Rickards was announced as the winner of the second edition of the prize. Rickards' work, No, there was no red. results from the 6 month residency in Italy - as part of the prize - and it will be showcased at the Whitechapel Gallery from September 5 to September 23, 2009. From October 2009 it will be presented in Italy at the Maramotti Collection.External links
- http://www.whitechapel.org/content.php?page_id=1893
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2006_04_fri_03.shtml
- http://arts.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1989308,00.html
- http://www.whitechapel.org/content.php?page_id=3014
- Collezione Maramotti Max Mara Art Prize Second Edition