Prize Application 2013

THE CHELSEA PRIZES 2013 ARE ABOUT TO GO LIVE.

Prize applications will be available and open from April, 22nd onwards. The deadline will be May, 17th. Each applications has all the relevant details.

This year's prizes are generously provided by:

-jotta
-The Emely
-ACME
-GlogauAIR
-The Ovalhouse Theatre
-Flat Time House
-Chelsea Arts Club Trust
-Chelsea Alumni Award


You can find all the prizes and how to apply for each of them on the 'Prize Application 2013' page, which will be updated next week.

Before applying to any of the prizes please make sure you read through each of the forms thoroughly. There is no maximum or minimum amount of prizes you can apply to. However your application to any prize will be strongest if you recognize a clear correlation between your practice/ interests and that of the prize and prize provider.

You are strongly advised to consider if you will be remaining in London for the duration of the prize(s) or if you will need a visa for the following year. Please make your choices accordingly to your plan.


For more information or if you have any questions please email us: chelseaprize@gmail.com

Winner of the jotta Award 2012: Jack Harris

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the jotta Award 2012 is Jack Harris.

From a selection of eight students (short listed by Jo Melvin and Bernice Donszelmann) Jack was chosen as the winner by jotta curators Ellie Greig and Dave Charlesworth.

jotta is a platform for artists and designers founded in partnership with the University of the Arts London. jotta creates opportunities for emerging artists to apply their skills and develop their practice.


The jotta Award offers Jack the opportunity to showcase a moving image piece exclusively on Jotta.com. The final piece will be exclusively exhibited in the jotta homepage for a period of time during Frieze week. In addition, Jack will have the opportunity to have his work realised as an addition for Jotta Editions Space. 


Pictures of Jack's work for his degree show can be seen below alongside his film, Episodes. 

Episodes from Jack Harris on Vimeo.

Winner of Chelsea Arts Club Trust Voucher 2012: Anna Cooke-Yarborough

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Chelsea Arts Club Trust voucher money is Anna Cooke-Yarborough.

From a selection of sixteen students, Anna was chosen by six students on the Chelsea Student Awards panel.

The Chelsea Arts Club Trust was set up in 1990 founded by the members of The Chelsea Arts Club in order to help support and encourage the education of art and design and to provide help for artists and designers. The trust provides a range of bursaries, scholarships and awards and indeed supports our other award, the Acme Studio Award. The trust is an independent charity relying totally on donations.

Due to problems with communication on Jessops side the trust voucher has been changed to being a £500 bursary to be spent solely at Jessops.

Pictures of Anna's work for her degree show can be seen below, along with other works.

'My concern surrounds the way in which the human species and other species inhabit the same planet. Other species are inescapable and yet progressively distant. They find their way into histories of film, technology, science, design, and many of our industrial pursuits and yet are increasingly compromised in real terms. I feel that the unease that accompanies a growing dissociation is somewhat to do with the ambiguity and haunting nature of the relationships set up. The boundaries built up between humans and other species are less and less navigable, sometimes extinguished, but there is also no cease to the persistent reconstruction and manipulation of animals.

Recently I have been observing zoo and natural history museum environments, exploring what the development of these institutions represents about our altering relationship with other species. Relating to the idea of conservation and the incongruous context of seeing things cultivated or reproduced within an artificial space. I hope in future to focus on more specific encounters: concentrating on the decline of a particular species, and involving a delve into the historical placement of the species alongside humans. I also hope to look into particular ‘weedy species’ (those animals that live well in human dominated environments), observing how we have come to co-inhabit urban environments. Moreover considering encounters involved, which often carry their own sense of uneasiness as these species have emerged beside us outside of any precise human selection.'

Anna Cooke-Yarborough, 2012

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!