Landscape painter Andrew Gifford has won the 2015 ING Discerning Eye prize, chosen from works currently on show at the Mall Galleries, London.
Gifford, whose work explores the physics of light, will receive £5000 in prize money. The Yorkshire-born artist has exhibited across the UK, including shows at Leeds City Art Gallery (2004), Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh (2001) and Middlesbrough Art Gallery (2000).
Other prize winners include Chris Bushe and Tom Hughes who will share the Discerning Eye Founder’s Purchase Prize of £2500. In addition, Dion Salvador Lloyd will receive £1000 through the Discerning Eye Chairman’s Purchase Prize, while Mark Hearld has won the Meynell Fenton Prize of £1000.
Rose Eva is the recipient of the Humphreys Purchase Prize of £750 and Delia Tournay-Godfrey the Lincoln Seligman Purchase Prize of £500. Elizabeth Sophia-White has won the Discerning Eye Sculpture and 3D Work Prize and Alison Lumb is the winner of the St Cuthberts Mill Award.
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition is a show of small works – including paintings, prints, sculptures, drawings and photographs –independently selected by a panel of six.
This year’s judges were: Stephen Doherty, director of visual communications at Somerset House; Steve Pill, editor of Artists & Illustrators Magazine; Stephen Snoddy, director of The New Art Gallery, Walsall; Emma Bridgewater, founder of the eponymous British ceramics brand; fashion designer-turned-sculptor Nicole Farhi; and the actor Larry Lamb.
