The London Group has chosen the ten prize winners from its biennial open exhibition. The announcement was made during the closing event for the two-part show which took place at Cello Factory, London.
The exhibition included works by 70 invited artist members alongside those of 70 artists who were selected from open call. All ten awards have gone to non-members.
Recent Royal College of Art (RCA) graduate Karolina Magnusson-Murray received The Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art purchase prize for her video work, Commanding Content.
Speaking about the work, Magnusson-Murray said she aimed to “actively question and confront the boundary between representation, content and experience.” The video will now be exhibited at The Lightbox, Woking, as part of an exhibition of works from The Ingram Collection next year.
The opportunity to take part in a three-person exhibition at the Cello Factory was awarded to sculptors Cadi Froelich and Martin Heron, and photographer Darren Nisbett.
Froelich’s work, AQI, was made following a month-long residency in Beijing last year, while Nisbett’s composite photograph, Spirit of the Nomad, is part of a series produced while travelling in Southern California. Heron said his work Loitering with Intent no 15 “hovers on the edge of drawing, painting and sculpture.”
The £1500 Chelsea Arts Club Trust Stan Smith Award for an artist under 35 went to Jessie Sheffield, another recent RCA graduate, for her work Magnaparva Pair no 3, described by the artist as “an exploration of perception and our trust in our own as a subjective.”
Awards were also made to Almuth Tebbenhoff (£500 Sculpture prize); Eleanor Wood (£500 Winsor and Newton Materials Prize for Painting and Drawing); Judith Jones (£300 GX Gallery Annual prize); Kristian Evju (£300 Painter-Stainers Prize for Drawing); and Sue Ridge (£300 Patrick Gorman photographic services award).
The London Group was set up in 1913 by Wyndham Lewis and Jacob Epstein with the aim of ‘creating an independent artist-led exhibiting body to counterbalance the power of institutions such as the Royal Academy’.
Erratum 16/12/15: We previously stated that Jeff Lowe was the winner of the £500 Sculpture prize. In fact it was won by Almuth Tebbenhoff who was awarded the prize by Jeff Lowe.
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