Jerwood Visual Arts and Brighton’s Photoworks organisation – which last weekend launched the sixth Brighton Photo Biennial – have come together to create a new UK-wide photography award to support the making of new photographic work.
Open to UK-based artists and photographers, the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards will offer three winners £5,000 each to develop ideas that represent ‘new approaches to photography’, culminating in a group exhibition at Jerwood Space, London. The work will then tour nationally.
There is no age limitation and the awards are open to UK-based art practitioners using photography who are within ten years of graduating or establishing their practice.
Shortlisted artists will be interviewed by a panel of five judges: Celia Davies, director, Photoworks; Shonagh Manson, director, Jerwood Charitable Foundation; Lucy Moore, director, Clare de Rouen Books; and artist duo Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. The selected artists will be announced in January 2015.
“These awards are distinct from current opportunities in photography in their focus,” said Manson. “They will support the process of creating and exhibiting substantial new work, alongside a valuable ongoing programme of professional mentorship from a dream list of practitioners; they will be something very special.”
The awards are open to entrants who use photographs, archives and found photography, as well as photographers and artists who make their own photography. “The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards are not about promoting existing work,” said Davies, “but rather about enabling artists and photographers to make important new work that wouldn’t otherwise happen.”
The deadline for submissions is 1 December 2014. For more information on how to apply visit Jobs and opps
