The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has announced the five recipients of its 2012 Awards for Visual Arts. Ed Atkins, Pavel Büchler, Andy Holden, Elizabeth Price and Lis Rhodes will each receive the prestigious award of £50,000, paid over three years. The prizes aim to ‘encourage artists to continue to practice despite outside pressures, financial or otherwise’ and have ‘no strings attached’ in terms of how the money is spent.
Elizabeth Price, one of this year’s Turner Prize nominees currently showing at Tate Britain, comments: “The Paul Hamlyn Foundation is unique in supporting an artist’s development rather than a project and as such it will benefit the most experimental aspects of my process.”
Ed Atkins, currently showing at Chisenhale Gallery and with exhibitions coming up at MoMa PS1, New York, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin and Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, said: “Simply put, the award makes previously impossible ways of thinking possible … The sheer unfettering of potential afforded, and the deep sense of generosity and empathy displayed by the foundation, is humbling and inspiring. Thank you.”
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