Galerie Marzee Graduate Awards Announced
The Marzee Graduate Prize winners 2020
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Galerie Marzee are very impressed by all the work that the participants in their graduate show have made this year. As every year, some participants have been awarded the Marzee Graduate Prize.
The winners have been announced as:
Faye Butler (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia)
Whose work explores memory and the effects of its loss and how we find resilience through identity and collective remembering.
Baking Days, 2020, brooch; vintage baking tin, enamelled copper mesh, embroidery thread, photographic decal, silver, cotton wadding, homespun cotton, stainless steel, 100 x 100 x 30 mm
Virginia Escobar (Alchimia, Florence, Italy)
Investigating physical identity and the idea of uniqueness and individuality, Virginia’s face masks challenge how societal standards influence our perception of beauty and ageing.
Robi, 2020, pendant; self-created material made with organic ingredients and cosmetics, steel wire, stainless steel, thread, staples, 100 x 120 x 3 mm
Katie Gibbon (Central St Martins, London, United Kingdom)
Katie’s delicate, fragile work reflects her feelings about the environmental crisis and humanity’s impact on the planet.
Gold Leaf Chain, 2020, necklace; gold leaf, 170 x 130 x 15 mm
Adam Henderson (Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom)
Focused on dismantling social structures through the lens of Ipse Dixit, a Latin phrase defined as ‘a dogmatic and unproven statement’, Adam’s collection is a study on national identity, patriotism and nationalism.
Ipse Dixit, 2020, necklace; milled mild steel, silver, L 870 mm
Levan Jishkariani (Trier University of the Applied Arts, Idar-Oberstein, Germany)
Social structures, rules, laws, educational measures, restrictions, dogmas, systems – these are the starting point for Levan’s work. Transforming thought into material, the pieces adapt, become part of the body.
untitled, 2020, necklace; beech, lapis lazuli powder, steel, 220 x 220 x 100 mm
Steven Kaplan-Pistiner (Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, United States)
Of his work, Steven says, ‘When I approach the wood, the knots are already within. As I carve, the knots, wounds, lighten, loosen…They are objects of tension that bind nothing in place but their own existence… there is no moment of resolution, only development as they are lived with – and this is how we work against alienation.'
Partially Undone Knot, 2020, brooch; cherry wood, leather, copper, 160 x 45 x 15 mm
Juliette Même (HEAR, Stasbourgh, France)
Though small interventions, Juliette’s work reveals the value, the preciousness of things or materials which are supposed to be uninteresting, unnoticed and commonplace.
Peace of Wall, 2019, brooch; pieces of wall from Strasbourgh, brass, 60 x 45 x 5 mm
Simon Swale (Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New-Zealand)
Concerned with how we communicate across distance – across geographical borders, time zones and language barriers, Simon’s work considers the potential of objects to mediate the spatial relationship and experiences of everyday life.
Fragments III, 2020, necklace; enamelled stainless steel, found object, 270 x 198 x 110 mm
Pei Wu (Trier University of the Applied Arts, Idar-Oberstein, Germany)
What forms us? What affects our personality? These are the questions that motivate Pei’s artistic work. The parent-child relationship is fundamental, especially in early childhood but some Eastern cultures, she says, believe that this influence begins even before birth – a bond created through many lives.
Gut Feeling, 2020, brooch; jesmonite, mineral-mix, 70 x 60 x 40 mm
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