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Awards for Artists supports individuals at a timely moment in their careers, giving them the freedom to develop their creative ideas and contributing to their personal and professional growth. The awards are made every year and come with no strings attached – artists are free to use the money in whichever way they decide. Ten awards of £60,000 each are made annually, five to visual artists and five to composers. We are happy to announce the recipients of Awards for Artists 2018 and would like to take this opportunity to thank judges, nominators and guest speaker Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE.
See the visual artists and composers for 2018 below.
Becky Beasley (born 1975) is a Hastings-based artist who works in sculpture, installation and photography to delve into the ambiguities and essential opacity of human experience. Key to her working processes is the idea of burrowing: a d...
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Anthea Hamilton (born 1978) is a London-based artist whose current practice comprises installation, sculpture and performance. Her work is always site-specific: a consideration of the location, and the cultural and political environment ...
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Simon Ling (born 1968) is engaged in depicting the world around him through painting objects and constructions principally found, sometimes made. Ling’s subjects, which include rotting piles of wood, undergrowth, circuit boards, and nond...
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Newcastle-based artist Matt Stokes (born 1973) explores notions of collectivity and shared purpose through inquiry into the situations and beliefs that shape people’s lives and identities. Music - its history, subcultures and socio-polit...
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Anne Tallentire (born 1949) is a London-based artist working with moving image, sculpture, installation, performance and photography. Through visual and textual interrogation of everyday materials and structures, she seeks to reveal syst...
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London-based composer, performer and robotic artist Sarah Angliss (born 1966) aims to create music that gets under the skin. Her highly inventive music combines different aspects of ancient and modern culture to uncanny and disquieting e...
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Frank Denyer (born 1943) is a composer who has for over four decades been incorporating new instruments of his own design and adaptation into his work. The potential of his instruments and their development has become a vital part of the...
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Paul Dunmall (born 1953) has played the saxophone as his primary instrument since the age of 14 and began his professional career touring the UK and Europe at 17. Throughout his career, he has dedicated himself to playing and performing ...
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Deirdre McKay (born 1972) is a Northern Irish composer who creates acoustic compositions for a range of chamber and large ensembles including orchestral, choral and dramatic works. For the past two decades her practice has been shaped by...
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Kate Young (born 1987) is a Scottish composer, singer and fiddler based in Edinburgh. While she hails from a Scottish folk and traditional musical background, she currently works across different musical genres and styles from around the...
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Paul Hamlyn Foundation launched Awards for Artists to provide individuals with financial...
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