The three winners of the 2014 Sculpture Shock award have been announced at an event at the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
Artist Cornelia Parker presented Patrick Lowry, Alexander Costello and Joanna Sands each with £3,000 prize money, plus the opportunity to undertake a three-month residency in a studio in Kensington.
This will culminate in a ‘spatial intervention’ in one of three non-traditional spaces, described as ‘subterranean, ambulatory and historic’. Each artist will install their work for a minimum 4-day pop-up exhibition.
The 2014 jury featured an illustrious panel of judges including art critic Sarah Kent, RBS President Terry New, RBS Vice President Clare Burnett, curator Claire Mander and artist/curator Nina Wisnia.
Sands (winner of the Historic prize) is known for making large sculptural installations in abandoned buildings and squats, often using found materials, altering and referring to the spaces they inhabited. Lowry (winner of the Subterranean prize) uses processes of replication and displacement, to interrogate the aspects of our made environment that construct or maintain submissive or controlled positions of the user or consumer. Costello (winner of the Ambulatory prize)creates sculptural interactions using paper.
For more information on the residencies and pop-up exhibitions visit the RBS website.
