The Collection and Usher Gallery, Lincoln with artist Oliver Laric are the winners of The Contemporary Art Society (CAS) Annual Award for Museums 2012. The museum will receive a £60,000 ‘commission to collect’.
The Contemporary Art Society (CAS) Annual Award aims to support an artist who may be showing widely nationally and internationally but whose work is not already well represented in collections in the UK. It enables museums to work with a contemporary artist of their choosing to create new works of art for that institution’s permanent collection.
Jonathan Platt, Head of Libraries and Heritage at Lincoln County Council said: “Oliver Laric’s practice will take us to a whole new dimension, quite literally, because he is going to undertake some 3D scans which will be of parts of our collection that will then be available across the world to anybody who wants them. They will become the historical record of tomorrow.”
Also on the shortlist for the award were Leeds Art Gallery in association with the Henry Moore Institute and artist Alice Channer; and Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery with Kettle’s Yard and artist Juliette Blightman.
This year’s selectors were: Michelle Cotton, Curator, First Site Colchester; Chris Hammond, Director MOT International; Moira Jeffrey, writer; and Toby Ziegler, artist.
For further details visit www.contemporaryartsociety.org/our-work-with-public-collections/the-annual-award
