Ali Reed has been named overall winner of New Art West Midlands. The award, which includes a £1,000 cash prize plus a residency with solo exhibition at Digbeth’s A3 Project Space, was announced during a ceremony at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham.
A fine art graduate from Staffordshire University, Reed blogged about the lead up to her degree show on a-n, and also featured in a-n’s Degree show guide 2013.
Four other recent graduates, Lucy Hutchinson (Coventry University), Morna Lockie-Anrig (BCU), Sikander Pervez (Staffordshire University) and Anna Smith (Wolverhampton University) also receive £1,000 prize money each and respectively win residencies at The Library of Birmingham, Airspace at Stoke-on-Trent, The New Art Gallery Walsall and mac birmingham.
New Art West Midlands, a Turning Point West Midlands initiative, is now in its second year. Working alongside 14 partners, it includes an exhibition showcasing the work of 24 artists who have graduated within the last three years from a West Midland’s University. The 24 emerging artists were selected by artist Mel Brimfield, curator, lecturer and urban theorist Paul Goodwin and artist and Head of Glasgow School of Art’s Environmental Art Department David Harding OBE.
Wendy Law, Director of Turning Point West Midlands, said: “The West Midlands region has a varied and interested art scene of which its graduates form a very strong part. New Art West Midlands provides a much needed focus on the talented artists coming through our art schools as well as on new work being produced in the region.”
New Art West Midlands continues at: Grand Union, Birmingham until 15 March 2014; The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham until 27 April 2014; Wolverhampton Art Gallery until 10 May 2014; and Birmingham Museum & Art Galleries until 18 May 2014.
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