Winner of the Afterall Award 2012: Mario D'Agostino

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Afterall Award 2012 is Mario D'Agostino.

From a selection of seven students, Mario was chosen by a panel from Afterall including publishing director for Afterall, Caroline Woodley, managing editor for Afterall Online, Melissa Gronlund, and editorial assistant for Afterall Online, Helena Vilalta.

Afterall undertakes contemporary art research within the academic framework of Central Saint Martins and its educational and cultural partner institutions. It aims to make this research widely available to a variety of audiences through its books, journal, online articles, seminars and symposia. Afterall is committed to the idea that art, and writing on art, should be independent of the commercial art market and engaged with broad educational, cultural, social and political ideas.

Afterall has given Mario a chance to develop his skills by contributing to Afterall Online. Afterall will also provide editorial support and feedback, as well as an award of £300.

Below you can see some of Mario's works and a brief statement on the influence on writing on his work:

Promotional poster for film, Dr Dale and the W.H.A.L.E. Betrayal, 2012.

                     
                        Dr. Dale and the W.H.A.L.E. Betrayal Trailer from Jake or Mario on Vimeo.

'I currently work within two collaborations: as a part of SALT, producing publications and organising events with Hannah Clayden and Simon Bramley, and making short films and other things with Jake Caleb – although there tends to be a massive overlap between these ways of working, seeming as the group of us spend a lot of time together and frequently discuss ideas and help each other out.  Writing collaboratively has been something that has featured heavily in the recent projects I’ve been involved with, for example: working on absurd sci-fi scripts for Squeed and Dr. Dale and the W.H.A.L.E. Betrayal with Jake, and the script for SALT and ARK’s recent Future Tours performance. For Afterall I’ve proposed to write about the uses and histories of allegorical figures such as cannibals and zombies in mainstream and exploitation cinema, and how these figures link to different countercultures and communities, as this involves a lot of things which inform the work I collaborate on, and which I’m really excited to try and develop open dialogue and discussion around.'


Mario D'Agostino, 2012


Please contact jakeormario@gmail.com for a viewing copy of the film Dr.Dale and the W.H.A.L.E Betrayal.

Future Tours, SALT in collaboration with ARK, 2012


To see more of Mario's work, please visit his website at: www.jakeormario.co.uk

Winners of the MFI Graduate Award 2012, supported by Flat Time House: Eiko Soga and Francesca Blomfield

We are delighted to announce that the winners of the MFI Graduate Award 2012 are Eiko Soga and Francesca Blomfield.

From a selection of eight students, Eiko and Francesca were chosen by Clive Phillpot, a trustee of Flat Time House.

Clive was a former librarian at Chelsea School of Art and became the Director of the library at the MoMA in 1977. Clive also founded the special collections at Chelsea Library and has a very long standing connection with the college.

Flat Time House is the former home and studio of the artist John Latham. Flat Time House operates not just as an exhibition space but also as an artist's house and living archive, bringing contemporary work together with John Latham permanent collection.

The MFI Graduate award is awarded to recent graduates with the aim of supporting their professional developments as artists. As awardees, Eiko and Francesca will form part of a discussion and study salon, MFI Group, which is based at Flat Time House in Peckham, South East London.

Pictures of Eiko's work can be seen below. Scroll down further to see pictures of Francesca's work.

Eiko Soga, degree show piece, '151617181920212223062012'

'My interest lies in exploring the relationship between space, light and the mind in order to explore notions of the intangible world.  I am fascinated in the way natural light subtly reveals unexpected images, sensations and time. I chase after the light and the instantaneous act of taping a simple line on surfaces in various spaces enables me to engage with momentary encounters and appearances of light and to work with the invisible and chance in an everyday and minimal scale.

The process of photography is important in my work as it exposes the dialogue between human perception and the photographic image enabling me to compare and relate my visual perception and imagination to the images which photography has captured.

Another aspect of my work is the creation of site-specific spaces, which are prepared for the viewer to encounter images such as fleeting moments of changing natural light and to provoke their own perception and imagination.

Part of the source of my work stems from my sense of being part of a diaspora which has emphasised subtle differences and nuances of meaning through shifting cultural translation.  In a sense this parallels my experience of the visual fleeting world and it’s psychological dimensions.'

Eiko Soga, 2012

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To see more of Eiko's work, please visit her website at: www.eikosoga.com

Pictures of Francesca's work can be seen below: 

Winner of the Acme Studio Award 2012: Rafal Zajko

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Acme Studio Award 2012 is Rafal Zajko.

From a selection of seven students (short-listed by Martin Newth and Gill Addison) Rafal was chosen as the winner by Julia Lancaster, Sally O'Reilly and Jemima Brown.

The Acme Studio Award is a year long rent-free studio housed at Acme's Childers Street studios in Deptford provided by Acme Studios. Also included in the prize is a bursary of £2,500 provided and supported by the Chelsea Arts Club Trust.

Pictures of Rafal's work for his degree show piece can be seen below:

Charm over SubstanceHD video, 3 minutes 30 seconds, London, 2012

'Working in a variety of media, I play with the traditional roles of varying artistic mediums. In this manner my sculptures become props, performances become documentations of actions, and films (through a process of layering, repetition and re-recording) become a physical manifestation of an idea.

The objects I make can either be centre stage in one of my films, or else become hidden as a series of props or backdrops. The “object” playing the role of a character in a film – its parts undefined, its position unclear. This lack of a fixed plot or focus maintains a sense of flux in the work whereby I never know where the project will end. My only objective is that the process itself is the focus.'

Rafal Zajko, 2012

To see more of Rafal' work please visit his website at: www.rafal-zajko.com

WINNERS ANNOUNCED!!

Over the next few days we will be announcing the winners of the five prizes out of the eight of the Chelsea Student Awards. Please keep checking back for more details on the prize winners and prize providers!

NEW CHELSEA PRIZE! APPLY ASAP!

This is a call out for a new prize very kindly donated and supported by the Chelsea Arts Club Trust.

It is a £600 Jessops voucher. Jessops is the UK's largest specialist photographic retailer though it also sells products ranging from printers, projectors and software. The voucher can be spent on any product from Jessops. 

To be eligable for the award please send a short proposal up to 200 words to Chelseaprize@gmail.com stating how your practice relates to digital media and how you see yourself using media equipment in the future. 

The deadline for proposal submsissions is Wednesday 13th June @ 10pm. Please feel free to attatch any photos/links to films within your application, knowing that we will be going around the degree show and will be aware of your final piece. 

GOOD LUCK!!

Acme Studio Award Short-list 2012

Thank you to all of those who applied for the Acme Studio Award this year. The applicants who were shortlisted are as follows:


Bex Williams
Francesca Blomfield
Hannah Collins
Sarah Davies
Tom Ramsey
Rafal Zajko
Jack Harris


We would like to say a huge thank you to Acme Studios for presenting the award this year and for their generosity and support.

Emely Award Short-list 2012

Thank you to all of those who applied for the Emely Award this year. The applicants who were shortlisted are as follows:

Masumi Hirayama

Isabelle Gressel

Taya Fraser

Natasha Whittle

SALT

Anna Garland Dale

Sophie Drewett

We would like to say a huge thank you to Rosalie Schweiker for presenting the award this year and for her generosity and support.