Six artists have been shortlisted for this year’s £30,000 Threadneedle Prize for figurative and representational painting and sculpture, which opens on 25 September at London’s Mall Galleries.
Among the six are Glasgow-based Andrew Cranston whose painting, After Canaletto, features Modern Institute directors Toby Webster and Andrew Hamilton. They are depicted in a space surrounded by crates of artists’ work and standing on what looks to be a striped floor installation by Jim Lambie.
Recent University of Leeds graduate Clare McCormack’s Dead Labour/Dead Labourer is a tribute to the artist’s grandfather, who died of asbestosis after a life working on building sites. The large-scale woodcut portrait is cut from four used scaffolding planks, a reflection on her grandfather’s working life.
Cornwall-based Séamus Moran, who has a background in ceramics and model making, has been shortlisted for Urban Burka, a lucha libra wrestling mask made from a pair of trainers.
Also on the shortlist are Harriet White (Goldmine), Ilona Szalay (Lesson) and Lisa Wright (The Guilty’s Gaze on the Innocent). All six will be included in an exhibition of 111 works by 95 artists selected by a panel including Dr Barnaby Wright, Curator at the Courtauld Gallery; art critic Laura Gascoigne; and artists Paul Benney and Tim Shaw. All works on display will be eligible for the Visitors’ Choice Award worth £10,000.
A number of leading figures from across the cultural sector, including artist Jake Chapman, ICA Director Gregor Muir, musician, composer and producer Nitin Sawhney, and Channel 4’s Jon Snow, will each select and discuss one work at the Mall Galleries, as part of the annual ‘Critic’s View’ on 8 October.
The Threadneedle Prize, 25 September – 12 October 2013, Mall Galleries, London.
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